Hockey Night Fever: Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s

Cole, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0385682123 / ISBN 13: 9780385682121

Published by Doubleday Canada, 2015

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Signed and personally inscribed by Stephen Cole on the title page.this copy has a solid tight binding and clean unmarked pages. Seller Inventory # vl888

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Title: Hockey Night Fever: Mullets, Mayhem and the ...

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

A wildly evocative chronicle of the decade that changed hockey forever.

     "Lady Byng died in Boston" read a sign in the Garden arena in 1970, a cheery dismissal of the NHL trophy awarded the game's most gentlemanly player. A new age of hockey was dawning. For 30 years, hockey was an orderly and (relatively) well-behaved sport. There was one Commissioner, six teams and five colours--red, white, black, blue and yellow. Oh, and one nationality. Until 1967, every player, coach, referee and GM in the NHL had been a Canadian. And then came NHL expansion, the founding of the WHA, and garish new uniforms. The Seventies had arrived: the era that gave us not only disco, polyester suits, lava lamps and mullets but also the movie Slap Shot and the arrest of ten NHL players for on-ice mayhem. But it also gave us hockey's greatest encounter (the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit), its most splendid team, the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, and the most aesthetically satisfying game--the three-all tie on New Year's Eve, 1975, between the Canadiens and the Soviet Red Army.
     Modern hockey was born in the sport's wild, sensational, sometimes ugly Seventies growth spurt. The forces at play in the decade's battle for hockey supremacy--dazzling speed vs. brute force--are now, for better or worse, part of hockey's DNA. This book is a welcome reappraisal of the ten years that changed how the sport was played and experienced. Informed by first-hand interviews with players and game officials, and sprinkled with sidebars on the art and artifacts that defined Seventies hockey, the book brings dramatically alive hockey's most eventful, exciting decade.

About the Author:

STEPHEN COLE's previous books include The Canadian Hockey Atlas; The Last Hurrah: A Celebration of Hockey's Greatest Season '66--'67; and a hockey humour anthology, Slapshots. He is also the author of a history of CBC-TV, Here's Looking at Us. Cole has written on movies and TV for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, and his short stories have appeared in Quarry and Descant. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Jacquie McNish, and their sons, Harry and Lewis.