Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League
- ISBN-10
- 0836271149
- ISBN-13
- 9780836271140
- Category
- Sports & Recreation / Winter Sports / Hockey
- Pages
- 1878
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Total Sports
- Authors
- Dan Diamond, Ralph Dinger
Description
This expanded edition of Total Hockey offers fans a complete history of the sport from its humble origins on the fields of Nova Scotia to today, and it's filled with facts and statistics gathered from more than 75 writers, historians, and statisticians. Included are complete player biographies, cross-era player comparisons, detailed timeliness, essays on the evolution of on-ice strategy, major and minor league histories, a history of women's hockey, unusual events, hockey lore, and more.
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