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The Ultimate Hockey Anthology: Inspiring True Stories of the Greatest Players, Iconic Rivalries, and Game-Changing Pioneers
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- ISBN8233299063
- EAN9798233299063
- Date de parution21/06/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
The ice never lies. It doesn't care about your legacy, your fear, or the fifty-four years of history pressing down on your shoulders. It's cold, hard, and completely unforgiving - and every player in this book had to find out exactly what they were made of when they stepped onto it. Legends of the Ice is a cinematic journey through twenty of the most extraordinary stories in professional hockey history.
Not statistics. Not box scores. Moments - the half-second before everything changes, the night that turns a player into a legend and a legend into mythology. From a broken stick accidentally inventing the curved blade, to a goaltender bleeding out on live television and returning to his crease eleven days later. From the miracle ice of Lake Placid to the bloody brawl of Hockeytown. These are the stories that built this sport.
Inside these pages:A frustrated Stan Mikita jams a stick into a bench door and accidentally changes the physics of hockey forever. Jacques Plante bleeds onto MSG ice and refuses to return without his mask - saving goaltenders' lives for generations. Bobby Hull shatters the 50-goal barrier with a slapshot that tears through the net itself. A twenty-year-old Soviet nobody walks into the 1972 Summit Series and makes Canada's greatest legends look human.
Wayne Gretzky scores 50 goals in 39 games using nothing but vision and a mind one step ahead of everyone else. Mark Messier publicly guarantees victory - then delivers a natural hat trick in the third period with the season on the line. Gordie Howe survives a fractured skull, plays five decades, and at fifty-one puts players half his age through the boards. Maurice Richard becomes the soul of a nation - and his suspension sets Montreal on fire.
Willie O'Ree breaks the color barrier while secretly blind in one eye. Manon Rhéaume steps into an NHL crease and stops the world's best shooters - in full view of everyone who said it couldn't be done. College kids crushed 10-3 days earlier produce the greatest upset in sports history. Mario Lemieux finishes cancer radiation in the morning and scores that same night. Bobby Baun hears his fibula crack, refuses the X-ray, and scores the overtime winner anyway.
Doug Jarvis plays 964 straight games - proving that showing up, every single time, is its own kind of greatness. This is hockey at its most human. Blood, grit, breakthrough, and heartbreak - on two hundred feet of unforgiving ice, by people who refused to let the game be bigger than they were. Twenty stories. Twenty legends. One sport that has never made anything easy for the people who love it most.
Not statistics. Not box scores. Moments - the half-second before everything changes, the night that turns a player into a legend and a legend into mythology. From a broken stick accidentally inventing the curved blade, to a goaltender bleeding out on live television and returning to his crease eleven days later. From the miracle ice of Lake Placid to the bloody brawl of Hockeytown. These are the stories that built this sport.
Inside these pages:A frustrated Stan Mikita jams a stick into a bench door and accidentally changes the physics of hockey forever. Jacques Plante bleeds onto MSG ice and refuses to return without his mask - saving goaltenders' lives for generations. Bobby Hull shatters the 50-goal barrier with a slapshot that tears through the net itself. A twenty-year-old Soviet nobody walks into the 1972 Summit Series and makes Canada's greatest legends look human.
Wayne Gretzky scores 50 goals in 39 games using nothing but vision and a mind one step ahead of everyone else. Mark Messier publicly guarantees victory - then delivers a natural hat trick in the third period with the season on the line. Gordie Howe survives a fractured skull, plays five decades, and at fifty-one puts players half his age through the boards. Maurice Richard becomes the soul of a nation - and his suspension sets Montreal on fire.
Willie O'Ree breaks the color barrier while secretly blind in one eye. Manon Rhéaume steps into an NHL crease and stops the world's best shooters - in full view of everyone who said it couldn't be done. College kids crushed 10-3 days earlier produce the greatest upset in sports history. Mario Lemieux finishes cancer radiation in the morning and scores that same night. Bobby Baun hears his fibula crack, refuses the X-ray, and scores the overtime winner anyway.
Doug Jarvis plays 964 straight games - proving that showing up, every single time, is its own kind of greatness. This is hockey at its most human. Blood, grit, breakthrough, and heartbreak - on two hundred feet of unforgiving ice, by people who refused to let the game be bigger than they were. Twenty stories. Twenty legends. One sport that has never made anything easy for the people who love it most.
