No hockey player can reach his full potential without mastering the mental side of the sport. Hockey Tough provides players and coaches proven methods for mastering the mental side of the game. Author Saul Miller shares the psychological training and emotional management techniques he has successfully taught individual hockey players and teams for over 20 years. Throughout the book, NHL stars such as Mark Messier, Pavel Bure, Chris Pronger, and Markus Naslund offer insights and tips on a variety of topics related to achieving a winning mindset for the sport. These players explain how to focus and score, how to deal with personality conflicts on and off the ice, and how to bounce back with confidence after a sub par performance. Miller, one of North America's most prolific and sought-after sport psychology consultants in hockey, presents mental exercises and assignments to help players: develop a winning attitude on and off the ice, stay focused to execute skills and tactics, maintain the mental stamina required in this physically demanding sport, overcome emotional fatigue and physical aches and pains to perform at the highest level throughout the season manage their anger to avoid costly penalties in crucial game situations develop the discipline and tenacity to force and capitalize on opponents' mistakes. Miller presents many other topics of interest, such as the intangibles that coaches and scouts look for in players and what it takes to make it to the top level of competition. Motivation, teamwork, leadership, and poise are essential factors to successful performance. Hockey Tough will strengthen each of these areas and help players achieve a mindset to excel on the ice.

Hockey Goaltending is appropriate for both ice and roller hockey. It features detailed instruction on the fundamentals of playing goal and is illustrated with over 130 photographs,. It includes both progressive techniques and off-ice conditionag exercises.

Every aspect of Bowman's roller-coaster career is highlighted, from his early playing career through his seven Stanley Cup victories. Following the thrilling years with the Montreal Canadiens to the difficult years with the Buffalo Sabres, Douglas Hunter (author of A Breed Apart ) Chronicles both the joyous victories and the disappointing upsets. Binding: Cloth Length: 392 pages Black and white photographs

We all know the larger-than-life Messier, the steely eyed gladiator surrounded by an aura of near-magical charisma and menace, the Bad Cop to Gretzky's Good Cop in Edmonton, the captain who promised - and delivered - a game 6 victory over the New Jersey Devils in the '94 Eastern Conference finals, the center of the My Canada includes Messier controversy before the '98 Olympics. He has the third-highest points total in NHL history and the highest points and goals totals among current players. In messier, author Jeff Z. Klein takes us beyond the headlines and the statistics. We meet a Messier who is not only a leader and a warrior, but a contemplative student of philosophy, a tireless community figure, and a man who leads a complex emotional life. Drawing on his incisive understanding of the game of hockey, his contacts within the NHL, and his familiarity with the New York Rangers, Klein gives us an intimate look at the man who just may be the most fascinating player in hockey and the greatest leader in all of sports. Binding: Cloth Length: 336 Pages Full-color photographs

There's a lot more to coaching hockey than teaching players how to hit a puck. You have to train them to execute advanced skills and tactics, evaluate their technique, and give them exercises and drills to hone their skills. Additionally, you have to organize your team, select equipment, motivate your players, plan practices, and pull everything together for competitive play. Coaching Hockey Successfully makes all these tasks much easier by guiding you through every aspect of the coach's role giving you a blueprint for establishing a successful program. It's an all-encompassing manual for beginning coaches and a thorough reference for more experienced coaches. Author Dennis Red Gendron has coached hockey at nearly every level of competition, from youth summer clinics to NHL teams, and his teams have won everything from high school state championships to a Stanley Cup. In Coaching Hockey Successfully Gendron shares his experiences and wealth of knowledge to help you build your own winning hockey program. Coaching Hockey Successfully gives you advanced skills, drills, and strategies for play in the defensive, neutral, and offensive zones. The book addresses a wide spectrum of vital coaching topics: Developing a program philosophy Motivating players Planning the season Preparing for practices Building a feeder system Handling game situations Evaluating performance You'll find helpful information on special teams, bench coaching, scouting, and program analysis, plus sample practice plans to guide you through the season. Whether you're new to coaching or merely looking for more effective ways to teach hockey techniques and tactics, you can turn to Coaching Hockey Successfully for expert advice and insights to help you round out your program.

Lemieux: The Final Period captures the life of a living legend in dramatic words and pictures. This oversized. Coffee-table edition showcases many of the pivotal moments in Lemieux's public and private life. A must-have for fans of the game and fans of a true hero. Binding: Cloth Length: 110 pages 120+ 4-color photographs

In Thunder and Lightning, Phil Esposito, the center from the Soo who became one of the game's greatest players, reveals colorfully and hilariously what his life in hockey was really like. Espo has never been reluctant to speak his mind. At a party marking the end of his third season with the Blackhawks, Phil Esposito told coach Billy Reay and GM Tommy Ivan that they had a great team, maybe even a dynasty but that the two of them would screw it up. It was a classic Espo moment (and may have had something to do with his being traded to the Bruins). In this rollicking hockey memoir, he reveals what it was like to play with other Hall of Famers like Howe and Hull and Orr. He recalls his acrimonious encounters with Allan Eagleson, the incredible intensity of the 1972 Canada-Russia series, the fabulous ride with the great Bruins teams of the early seventies, and the tough years that followed with the New York Rangers. From being a player, Esposito went on to be a commentator, a coach, a general manager, and then founder and part owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning. He saw it all: the booze, the drugs, the women, the wheeling and dealing, the good times and the camaraderie, the bad times and the backstabbing. In telling what it was really like, Esposito takes readers into the boardrooms, back rooms - and even the bedrooms - of the men who make their lives in the NHL. 256 pages.

Brett Hull is only the sixth player in the NHL history to score 700 goals. In 2001 the Detroit Red Wings added Brett to a distinguished roster resulting in a Stanley Cup in 2002. Brett Hull, NHL sensation and offspring of the legendary Bobby Hull, has filled his father's skates and then some, leading the NHL in goals over the last 10 seasons, winning the prestigious Lady Byng trophy and the Hart trophy, and powering his way into the upper echelon of hockey status. In this newly revised edition of his book, Brett tells his own story and shares his troubles and triumphs. Through all the pressure and controversy that comes with being an NHL great, he strives to stay on top of his game and to maintain an easygoing attitude. My only game plan, he writes, is to keep smilin' and shootin'. It's the way I am. Binding: Paper Length: 216 Pages Black and white photographs throughout

Bobby Orr's flying, diving goal to win the Stanley Cup for Boston on May 10, 1970, is the most famous Stanley Cup goal of all time, capturing in one incomparable, unrepeatable moment all the unique abilities of the greatest defenseman ever to play the game. But while newspapers around the world showed the goal as captured by photographer Ray Lussier, other equally superb images of Orr's shot and flight through the air were taken by photographers who were never as well know. Now, in The goal, all available images are published together for the first and only time ever, in true sequence. In addition to the 19 different photographs of the goal, the book is augmented by exclusive interviews conducted by author Andrew Podnieks from everyone on the ice at the time Orr scored, including all six Boston Bruins players; all six St. Louis Blues players; Hall of Fame referee Bruce Hood; and linesman Matt Pavelich and Ron Ego. Each offers his own perspective on the play, his role in the goal, and his recollections about Orr and the importance of Orr to the team and the game of hockey itself. Archival photos throughout. Binding: Cloth Archival phtos throughout

Pennant Display Set Contains one pennant of each team in league. Detroit Red Wings, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Phoenix Coyotes, Carolina Hurricanes, St Louis Blues, New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Nashville Predators Please note that the manufacturer is continually changing the graphics on their items. The item shown above may or may not look exactly like the item you receive.

Officially approved and used by over 200 sports bodies and referees' associations worldwide, including the NFL, NHL, FIFA, The Olympics and others too numerous to mention. Provides high volume and far reaching penetration with ease of blowing. Injection molded High impact and shatterproof With cork pea Small size High pitch Made in England Price shown is for one dozen whistles