Hockey's Most Wanted

by Conner, Floyd

• ISBN13: 9781574883640
• ISBN10: 157488364X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

The history of hockey is filled with the bizarre, the unexpected, and the hard to believe. Hockey's Most Wanted'„¢chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and owners in hockey history. In humorous detail, Floyd Conner describes hockey's top-ten strange plays, inept players, bizarre nicknames, craziest fans, colorful characters, unlikely heroes, odious owners, worst coaches, beleaguered officials, most brutal fights, and more. Learn why Dave Reece was nicknamed 'œthe Human Sieve,' and find out which goalie once gave up fifteen goals in a game. Meet the player who was whistled for a record sixty-seven penalty minutes in a single game and another who played in the National Hockey League for five years before scoring his first goal. Imagine scoring the winning goal in the seventh and deciding game of the Stanley Cup'”for the opposing team'”or how it felt to be the defenseman traded for a net. You can find all this and more in Hockey's Most Wanted'„¢, a book that every hockey fan will enjoy.

Table of Contents

List of Photographs	xi
Introduction	xiii
The First Period	1	(4)
Notable hockey firsts
Rules of the Game	5	(5)
The evolution of hockey rules
Rocket and the Golden Jet	10	(3)
Hockey's best nicknames
Notorious Nicknames	13	(3)
Punch, Pinocchio, and Puck Goesinski
Dipsy Doodle Dandies	16	(3)
The sport's most unusual nicknames
They're Animals	19	(3)
A hockey menagerie
Production Lines	22	(3)
Famed forward lines
Family Affairs	25	(5)
All in the family
The International Hockey League	30	(3)
More than just a Canadian game
Born in the U.S.A.	33	(3)
American players in the NHL
Women in Hockey	36	(3)
It's not just a man's game
Black Hockey Stars	39	(3)
Outstanding black players
The Smart Set	42	(4)
Brains and Brawn
Playing Politics	46	(3)
They threw their hat tricks into the ring
Sports of All Sorts	49	(4)
Multisport stars
Going for the Gold	53	(4)
Memorable Olympic hockey moments
Drinking It All In	57	(4)
Milk and magic elixirs
Food for Thought	61	(4)
See what's on the menu
Bigger Is Better	65	(3)
Big and tall hockey players
Mighty Atoms	68	(3)
Hockey's little big men
Teenage Terrors	71	(3)
Hockey phenoms
Life Begins at 40	74	(4)
Hockey senior citizens
Clothes Encounters	78	(4)
They were what they wore
Tools of the Trade	82	(3)
Masks, pucks, and sticks
Dinky Rinks	85	(4)
Unusual hockey venues
Centers of Attention	89	(4)
Hockey's best centers
The Right Stuff	93	(3)
Hockey's best right wingers
The Left Stuff	96	(3)
Hockey's best left wingers
For the Defense	99	(3)
Hockey's best defensemen
The Puck Stops Here	102	(4)
Hockey's best goaltenders
Sizzling Slap Shots	106	(4)
The game's hardest shooters
Roadrunners	110	(3)
Faster than a speeding Bucyk
Check, Please	113	(3)
Poke, hip, and body checks
The Best Years of Their Lives	116	(4)
The greatest seasons in hockey history
Great Games	120	(3)
The best single-game performances
Lopsided Losses	123	(3)
Hockey's biggest blowouts
Terrible Teams	126	(3)
The NHL's worst teams
Seasons They'd Rather Forget	129	(4)
Superstars' less than super seasons
The Offense Rests	133	(3)
They couldn't score
Net Losses	136	(3)
Hockey's worst goaltenders
Who's Minding the Net?	139	(4)
Goalies for a day
One-Game Wonders	143	(3)
One-game NHL careers
Unlikely Heroes	146	(3)
They rose to the occasion
Their Cups Runneth Over	149	(3)
Hockey's ultimate winners
They Never Won the Stanley Cup	152	(3)
Great players who never raised the Cup
Stanley Cup Curiosities	155	(3)
Strange Stanley Cup facts
Hockey Believe-It-or-Nots	158	(4)
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
The One and Only	162	(4)
One-of-a-kind hockey feats
Hockey's Most Embarrassing Moments	166	(4)
Hockey can be a humbling game
Draft Bargains	170	(4)
Stars selected late in the draft
Draft Busts	174	(3)
Prospects gone bad
Minor League Wonders	177	(3)
They didn't make it in the NHL
They Couldn't Win	180	(3)
The NHL's least successful coaches
Colorful Coaches	183	(5)
The Fog and the Master of the Mouth
Outrageous Owners	188	(6)
Big Bill and Charlie O
Ice Flakes	194	(5)
The game's most colorful characters
Money Matters	199	(4)
Hockey players weren't always millionaires
Memorable Memorabilia	203	(3)
Costly collectibles
Hockey Fanatics	206	(5)
When fans become fanatics
Official Business	211	(4)
They called them as they saw them
The Extra Edge	215	(3)
Cheating and deception in hockey
Goons	218	(5)
Enforcers, intimidators, and tough guys
Good Sports	223	(4)
The nice men on the ice
Famous Fights	227	(4)
A hockey game broke out
Severe Suspensions	231	(3)
Hockey's worst suspensions
Incredible Injuries	234	(4)
Hockey is a dangerous game
The Final Horn	238	(3)
Notable hockey lasts
Bibliography	241	(2)
Index	243	(12)
About the Author	255