Product Description: On a chilly day in 1917, the National Hockey League was formed, and in the years since, it has been a mainstay of American sports. This illustrated reference delves deep into the history of the league to bring out essential information on all the top players, teams, and events...read more

Product Description: Written by five of North America's leading hockey journalists and filled with more than 400 spectacular photographs, this book is an exciting and colorful history of the game. Including pictures from the 1999-2000 playoffs, this comprehensive overview of a century of hockey is sure to please fans everywhere...read more

Product Description: In 1893, the oldest tradition in North American sports began, with the awarding of the first Stanley Cup to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. By the time the NHL was founded in 1917, hockey was well on its way to becoming one of the most popular and exciting games out there, with teams from the United States and Canada competing fiercely for the historic, hallowed Cup...read more

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the National Hockey League offers a complete statistical record of the NHL players, including their pre-NHL careers, seven hundred profiles of hockey's greatest stars, a year-by-year chronology, a history of every NHL franchise, and more. (view table of contents)

Provides a history of the game and of all twenty-six NHL teams, along with profiles of great players, reviews of Stanley Cup and All-Star games, and a glossary of hockey terms (view table of contents)

Lists records, statistics, team rosters, season records, and Stanley Cup winners, explains hockey rules, and describes historic games