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Martin Brodeur: pour tout dire
Par Martin Brodeur. 2017
"En février 2002, lors des Jeux olympiques de Salt Lake City, Martin Brodeur, gardien de but de l'équipe canadienne de…
hockey, a ajouté une médaille d'or à son palmarès qui comptait déjà deux coupes Stanley remportées avec les Devils du New Jersey. Denis et Martin Brodeur sont ainsi devenus le premier tandem père-fils gardiens de but à avoir remporté une médaille aux Jeux olympiques. Denis Brodeur avait en effet raflé la médaille de bronze lors des jeux de 1956, en Italie. [...] Cet ouvrage vous propose de mieux connaître le grand sportif et l'homme qui se cachent derrière le masque du gardien de but." -- 4e de couvLe guerrier: biographie
Par Michel Roy. 2007
...] Michel Roy, père de la grande vedette, livre un témoignage sur la passion du hockey, le désir de gagner…
et la capacité de concentration qui ont fait la force de son fils. Mais c'est aussi sans complaisance et sans tricherie qu'il lève le voile sur les bévues, les défauts et les problèmes du célèbre gardien. Il relate notamment l'épreuve déchirante du départ de Montréal, qui a failli briser Patrick Roy. Cette biographie fait vivre le parcours de celui qui a révolutionné le métier de gardien de but. De plus, elle traite des enjeux actuels du monde du hockey : l'art de garder les buts, le développement du style papillon, l'équilibre sport-études, la violence, la pression médiatique et le culte de la vedette. La biographie Le Guerrier se lit comme un roman. [...] -- 4e de couv"La LNH, un rêve possible retrace le parcours dans le hockey mineur de huit joueurs professionnels francophones : Steve Bégin,…
Martin Brodeur, Francis Bouillon, Simon Gagné, Ian Laperrière, Vincent Lecavalier, Roberto Luongo et André Roy. Cet ouvrage vise à aider les jeunes - et leurs parents - à mieux comprendre les embûches qui jalonnent la "carrière" d'un jeune hockeyeur. A partir de témoignages de parents, d'entraîneurs et de coéquipiers, Luc Gélinas décortique le cheminement de chaque joueur, du niveau atome jusqu'au junior, tirant des enseignements précieux et des conseils pratiques". -- 4e de couvJacques Plante: l'homme qui a changé la face du hockey
Par Todd Denault. 2009
Sur la glace comme ailleurs, Jacques Plante était un être exceptionnel, talentueux, téméraire, mystérieux et complexe. Sa carrière tumultueuse de…
gardien de but l'a mené à Montréal, New York, St. Louis, Boston et Edmonton. Chose incroyable, sa contribution au jeu se reflète encore aujourd'hui dans les règlements, l'équipement et le style des joueurs. Appuyée par des documents d'archives comprenant des entrevues avec Jean Béliveau, Henri Richard, Dickie Moore et Scotty Bowman, cette biographie nous révèle l'une des figures marquantes de l'histoire du hockey. De nombreux excellents gardiens de but ont évolué dans la LNH, mais peu ont eu un réel impact sur le jeu. Jacques Plante est l'un de ces joueurs légendaires qui ont transformé la face du hockey. -- 4e de couvLes patins de hockey
Par Karl Subban, Maggie Zeng. 2023
L'hiver arrive à grands pas et PK n'a toujours pas de patins à se mettre aux pieds. Toc! toc! toc!…
fait un jour le facteur, qui cogne à la porte avec une boîte sous le bras. Est-ce que ce sont bien les patins commandés? Ceux qui lui permettront de briller sur la glace? L'attente est looongue pour le jeune joueur de hockey!Life in Two Worlds: A Coach's Journey from the Reserve to the NHL and Back
Par Ted Nolan. 2023
In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in…
pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game meant spending his life in two worlds: one in which he was loved and accepted and one where he was often told he didn’t belong.Ted proved he had what it took, joining the Detroit Red Wings in 1978. But when his on-ice career ended, he discovered his true passion wasn’t playing; it was coaching. First with the Soo Greyhounds and then with the Buffalo Sabres, Ted produced astonishing results. After his initial year as head coach with the Sabres, the club was being called the "hardest working team in professional sports." By his second, they had won their first Northeast Division title in sixteen years.Yet, the Sabres failed to re-sign their much-loved, award-winning coach.Life in Two Worlds chronicles those controversial years in Buffalo—and recounts how being shut out from the NHL left Ted frustrated, angry, and so vulnerable he almost destroyed his own life. It also tells of Ted’s inspiring recovery and his eventual return to a job he loved. But Life in Two Worlds is more than a story of succeeding against the odds. It’s an exploration of how a beloved sport can harbour subtle but devastating racism, of how a person can find purpose when opportunity and choice are stripped away, and of how focusing on what really matters can bring two worlds together.Major Misconduct: The Human Cost of Fighting in Hockey
Par Jeremy Allingham. 2019
Every night in hockey arenas across Canada and the United States, modern-day gladiators drop their gloves and exchange bare-fisted blows…
to the bloodthirsty roars of the paying public. Tens of millions of people a year, including children, watch and cheer on the fighters. Some players are paid handsomely; others barely a living wage. But either way, these fighters are lauded, valued, and considered to be essential to the game. That is, until their playing days are over. Hockey enforcers spend their lives fighting on ice to protect their teammates and entertain their fans, but when their playing days are over, who's left to fight for them? Major Misconduct scrutinizes a highly dangerous and controversial cultural practice. The book dives deep into the lives of three former hockey fighters who, years after their playing days ended, are still struggling with the pain and suffering that comes from bare-knuckle boxing on ice. All of these men believe they may be living with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. They may have had their shot at pro hockey glory, but none of them is rich or famous, and the game has left them with injuries and trauma. They have experienced estrangement, mental health issues, addiction, and brushes with the law. And they've stared death in the face. The debate surrounding fighting in hockey is hotly contested on both sides. This daring and revelatory book explores the lives of those who bare-knuckle boxed on ice for a living and investigates the human cost we're willing to tolerate in the name of hockey fighting. Includes a foreword by Daniel Carcillo, a former NHL player who won two Stanley Cups with the Chicago Black Hawks in 2013 and 2015. After retiring, he created Chapter 5, a non-profit organization that assists former NHL players who are suffering from post-concussion syndrome and mental health issues.La conquête du cheval: une histoire génétique (Sciences)
Par Ludovic Orlando. 2023
Une histoire des chevaux et du long compagnonnage entre l'homme et cet animal qui lui a offert un moyen de…
parcourir le monde. Le paléogénéticien retrace cette aventure, vieille de 4.200 ans, depuis les steppes de l'ouest de la Russie et de l'Ukraine, montrant la grande diversité de populations de chevaux, leur évolution et leurs déplacements sur la planète au cours des siècles.Eddie Olczyk: Beating the Odds in Hockey and in Life
Par Eddie Olczyk, Perry Lefko. 2019
Eddie Olczyk had built a life and career most people could only dream of. Growing up in the suburbs of…
Chicago, he fell in love with the game of hockey during an era when most kids preferred balls to pucks. Against all odds, he played on the 1984 U.S. Olympic hockey team as a 17-year-old, and four months later he was drafted in the first round by his hometown Chicago Blackhawks. During an illustrious 16-year career, he played for and alongside some of the greatest franchises and players in history, winning a Stanley Cup with the unforgettable 1994 New York Rangers. Years later, he coached former teammate Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby on the Pittsburgh Penguins before transitioning into the broadcast booth, where he has become one of the most recognizable voices of the sport. He then combined his skills as an analyst with his second passion— horse racing—and became an integral part of NBC’s coverage of thoroughbreds. Away from the spotlight, Olczyk and his wife of three decades raised four adoring children. He was respected and admired by fans, friends, and peers. Life was sweet. Then, at 7:07 pm on August 4, 2017, his entire world turned upside down. In Eddie Olczyk: Beating the Odds in Hockey and in Life, one of the biggest names in American hockey has written an inspiring and entertaining memoir of his life both on and off the ice. From shooting hundreds of tennis balls at a goal in his childhood living room to the ups and downs of his improbable hockey career to rollicking stories from the booth and the backstretch, Olczyk guides readers on his journey toward his ultimate test: a battle against Stage 3 colon cancer. For years, Olczyk’s goal was to be the best husband, father, broadcaster, and handicapper he could be. Today he has a new one: to bring as much awareness and support to those fighting cancer as he possibly can. In this emotional but often hilarious autobiography, you’ll learn why the people who know Eddie Olczyk best might describe him as “tremendously tremendous.”De l'autre côté du trou noir (Mammouth rock)
Par Eveline Payette. 2022
Au spectacle de Noël de l’école, Louis propose à ses camarades d’assister à une expérience scientifique exceptionnelle qui permettra de…
vérifier une théorie sur le fonctionnement des trous noirs. En vue de sa démonstration, Louis a modifié l’aspirateur Shoptou de son père pour en accroître la puissance, et l’a intégré dans un appareil complexe. C’est son fidèle ami, le légendaire mammouth rock Mayonnaise, qui servira de cobaye dans cette grande aventure. Mais l’expérience n’est pas sans risques. Qu’y a-t-il de l’autre côté du trou noir? L’imperturbable Louis ne se laissera pas démonter par les découvertes imprévues qu’il fera !Calling the Shots: Ups, Downs and Rebounds – My Life in the Great Game of Hockey
Par Kelly Hrudey, Kirstie McLellan Day. 2017
Few people have had a better front row seat to hockey history than Kelly Hrudey, whose former teammates include Mike…
Bossy, Denis Potvin, Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey and Wayne Gretzky, among many others of the game’s greats. In 1987, he stood tall in net during the Easter Epic, the longest playoff game in Islanders history. Kelly made seventy-three saves (to this day an NHL record for most saves made in a playoff game) against the Capitals before Pat LaFontaine scored the winner in the fourth overtime period of Game Seven at two o’clock in the morning. Later that year, Kelly was in the Canada Cup lineup of one of the most talented teams ever assembled on ice. In 1989, he joined Wayne Gretzky and Marty McSorley on a team that took Los Angeles by storm: the Kings went all the way to the Stanley Cup final against the Canadiens in 1993. Hrudey is now a well-respected hockey analyst and broadcaster and has watched with a keen eye as the game continues to evolve. Through it all, he has seen greatness and missed opportunities, inspiring moments and outright craziness. Working with bestselling author Kirstie McLellan Day, Kelly delivers a lively and thoughtful memoir, rich in behind-the-scenes anecdotes, humour and insight.Conflicted scars: An average player's journey to the nhl
Par Justin Davis. 2022
An indispensable guide to parents of hockey hopefuls At a time of great change in hockey, Justin Davis exposes the…
dark underbelly of the journey from the minors to the big leagues Hockey culture: it's a commonly used phrase inside the game, glorifying sacrifice, toughness, loyalty, and a sense of identity. Justin Davis viewed this culture as something he was lucky enough to experience. After all, he'd won a Memorial Cup after leading the tournament in scoring, and he'd been drafted by the Washington Capitals. "In my mind," he says, "I was the normal one." Unfortunately, after stepping outside the game, he began to recognize the racism, sexual abuse and bullying that was so deeply ingrained in the sport. And then, as his own children grew into teenagers, the curtain was pulled back, the memories came rushing forward, and he was horrified: "Why was I naked in a bus bathroom for four hours with seven teammates? What happened to my brain, and why can't I remember the simplest things? How did I end up living in a basement where the strangers upstairs were clearly engaged in domestic abuse?" As it navigates the sport's darkest corridors, Conflicted Scars shares the story of the common Canadian player and offers a guide for parents who need to know how and why a typical teenager with NHL dreams, from a small town, now lives anxiously, introvertedly, and battling emotional detachmentLes super six du hockey : N° 4 - Les étoiles du match
Par Kevin Sylvester. 2022
See below for English description.Benny, Jenny, Karl, Stella, DJ et Mo sont transformés lors d’une expérience qui tourne mal, et…
ils deviennent « l’équipe la plus super que le monde ait jamais vue ».Heureusement, car ils doivent affronter des joueurs de hockey tardigrades à plusieurs appendices DANS L’ESPACE! Il se trouve que le dernier des Formatrons n’a pas été détruit lorsque les super six ont combattu le lapin géant et maléfique dans Méchant coup de lapin. Et maintenant, des Formatrons géants et très améliorés qui travaillent pour Richard, un astronaute reconverti en scientifique diabolique, menacent le monde avec un astéroïde qui pourrait tout détruire. Les super six pourront-ils utiliser leurs pouvoirs pour déjouer ces méchants engins? Découvrez-le dans ce quatrième livre de la série rempli d’action et d’humour.Meet six kids a lot like you. Except……Benny, Jenny, Karl, Starlight, DJ and Mo got zapped in an evil plot gone wrong — and became the super-est team the world has ever seen. Lucky thing, because they have to face off against enormous, multi-appendaged, hockey-playing tardigrades IN SPACE! Turns out the last of the Sizematrons was not destroyed in the Six-versus-evil-bunny saga of Hat Tricked. And now very enhanced giant tardigrades working for astronaut-turned-evil-scientist Richard threaten the world with an asteroid that would end it all. Can the Super Six use their hockey superpowers to thwart the baddies? Find out in this fourth action-packed, laugh-a-minute book in the Les super six du hockey series.Original title: Hockey Super Six #4: Shooting StarsThe Little Book of Palaeontology: The Pocket Guide to Our Fossilized Past
Par Rasha Barrage. 2023
If you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this…
whirlwind tour of the highlights of palaeontology Life as we know it now has a long history, buried beneath the ground. Palaeontology is the science of fossilized animals and plants, using discoveries of ancient lifeforms to uncover secrets of the past. From giant dinosaurs, to ammonites, to the first ever humans, explore the greatest findings in palaeontology in this pocket-sized introduction. The Little Book of Palaeontology includes:- The key palaeontological discoveries over the past 400 years, including the dinosaur found complete with intricate scales, and the largest fossil ever uncovered- Profiles of influential palaeontologists such as Jack Horner, Dong Zhiming and Mary Anning- What we have learnt about the lives of ancient creatures and how they became extinct- The big questions about the prehistoric world that palaeontologists are trying to answer todayThis illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how life evolved. Look through this window to the past and learn about our prehistoric ancestors and the creatures of a bygone age.Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia (The Middle Awash Series)
Par Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Giday Woldegabriel. 2023
The second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains…
the definitive description of the geological context and paleoenvironment of the early hominid Ardipithecus kadabba. This research by an international team describes Middle Awash late Miocene faunal assemblages recovered from sediments firmly dated to between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago. Compared to other assemblages of similar age, the Middle Awash record is unparalleled in taxonomic diversity, composed of 2,760 specimens representing at least sixty five mammalian genera. This comprehensive evaluation of the vertebrates from the end of the Miocene in Africa provides detailed morphological and taxonomic descriptions of dozens of taxa, including species new to science. It also incorporates results from analyses of paleoenvironment, paleobiogeography, biochronology, and faunal turnover around the Pliocene-Miocene boundary, opening a new window on the evolution of mammals, African fauna, and its environments.After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life Of The Past Ser.)
Par Donald R. Prothero. 2006
A fascinating study of the thousands of new animal species that walked in the footsteps of the dinosaurs—and the climate…
changes that brought them forth. The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth&’s history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth many incredible creatures―including our own ancestors. Their story is part of a larger story of new life emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic, warming up dramatically about 55 million years ago, and then cooling rapidly so that 33 million years ago the glacial ice returned. The earth&’s vegetation went through equally dramatic changes, from tropical jungles in Montana and forests at the poles. Life in the sea underwent striking evolution reflecting global climate change, including the emergence of such creatures as giant sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. Engaging and insightful, After the Dinosaurs is a book for everyone who has an abiding fascination with the remarkable life of the past.Land of Hunters: Earth's Most Fearsome Predators
Par Clive Gifford. 2023
Explore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close…
to our planet's all-time deadliest predators.Join the hunt with Velociraptor, defend your prey with mighty Smilodon, see how you measure up to the biggest shark of all time and take to the skies with some of the world's most incredible birds of prey.A stunning central gatefold opens to reveal a timeline of life on Earth and the size of these incredible hunters.Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
Par Peggy Vincent, Nathalie Bardet, Alexandra Houssaye, Stéphane Jouve. 2023
A richly illustrated introduction to the spectacular reptiles that swam the oceans when dinosaurs roamed the landDuring the Mesozoic era,…
252 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the land, but the ocean deeps were roiling with equally spectacular reptiles—including giant predators. This richly illustrated, authoritative, and accessible book introduces readers to the world of these fascinating marine animals, whose predecessors returned to the seas a few million years after the first vertebrates emerged from the water. As we meet ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and many others, we learn about the astonishing anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that enabled these reptiles to become ocean dwellers again. We also learn about their living descendants, including sea turtles and sea snakes. Featuring stunning artwork depicting these prehistoric ocean creatures and photographs of their fossil remains, this book invites readers to discover the enthralling past of marine reptiles in all their extraordinary diversity.Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace , 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties' (The evolution Debate, 1813-1870 Ser.)
Par Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, David Knight. 2003
Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than…
their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from more advanced mammals. This led to his theory of natural selection, which he presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 with Charles Darwin. This volume reprints those papers presented to the Linnean Society.Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the…
Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and Indonesia.