Go to the Net Eight Goals that Changed the Game

by Strachan, Al

• ISBN13: 9781572438989
• ISBN10: 1572438983
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

The ultimate hockey insider shares the lowdown on the personalities, the dressing room banter, the chalktalk, and the sweat-stained passion behind eight of the most famous goals that changed ice hockey forever. Among them are Guy Lafleur's notorious "too many men on the ice" goal in 1979, Wayne Gretzky's overtime goal in Game Two of the Smythe Division finals in 1988, Paul Coffey's dramatic counterattack in the 1984 Canada Cup against the USSR and Brett Hull's disputed 1999 Stanley Cup winner. Al Strachan passes on, in the trenchant style of his famous columns, insights into the goals that reveal not only the way the game has changed but also about the gritty soul of hockey that will remains constant.

Author Biography

Al Strachan is a columnist with the Toronto Sun and an analyst with the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. He has been writing about hockey and hanging out with NHL players, coaches, general managers, and owners for 30 years. He lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
THE GOAL: FEBRUARY 11, 1979.	15	(32)
Game three of the Challenge Cup best-of-three final.
Scored by Boris Mikhailov (assisted by Alexander Golikov) at 5:47 of the second period.
Team USSR 6, Team NHL 0.
THE GOAL: MAY 10, 1979.	47	(36)
Game seven of the Stanley Cup semifinal.
Scored by Guy Lafleur (assisted by Jacques Lemaire) at 18:46 of the third period.
Montreal Canadians 5, Boston Bruins 4 (overtime).
THE GOAL: SEPTEMBER 13, 1984.	83	(28)
Canada Cup sudden-death semifinal.
Scored by Mike Bossy (assisted by John Tonelli and Paul Coffey) at 12:29 of overtime.
Canada 3, USSR 2.
THE GOAL: SEPTEMBER 15, 1987.	111	(34)
Game three of the Canada Cup best-of-three final.
Scored by Mario Lemieux (assisted by Wayne Gretzky) at 18:34 of the third period.
Canada 8, USSR 5.
THE GOAL: APRIL 21, 1988.	145	(30)
Game two of the Smythe Division final.
Scored (shorthanded) by Wayne Gretzky (assisted by Jari Kurri and Steve Smith) at 7:54 of overtime.
Edmonton Oilers 5, Calgary Flames 4.
THE GOAL: SEPTEMBER 16, 1991.	175	(38)
Game two of the Canada Cup best-of-three final.
Scored shorthanded by Steve Larmer (unassisted) at 12:13 of the third period.
Canada 4, United States 2.
THE GOAL: JUNE 19-20, 1999.	213	(28)
Game six of the Stanley Cup final.
Scored by Brett Hull (assisted by Mike Modano and Jere Lehtinen) at 14:51 of the third overtime period.
Dallas Stars 2, Buffalo Sabres I.
THE GOAL: FEBRUARY 24, 2002.	241	(42)
Olympic gold-medal game.
Scored by Jarome Iginla (assisted by Steve Yzerman and Joe Sakic) at 16:01 of the third period.
Canada 5, United States 2.
Afterword	283	(8)
Acknowledgments	291	(2)
Names Index	293