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Audiobooks by J. Alexander Poulton
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Since our nation was first conceived, Canadian athletes have been involved in some of the weirdest moments in sport.
Learn facts that will astound, confuse and make you laugh.
The Great One himself is afraid of flying.
Semi-professional baseball team, the Guelph Maple Leafs, beat the Ku Klux Klan in an exciting but strange final.
The worst way to defrost a football field from the grounds crew of the Calgary Stampeders was to set it ablaze–they still went on with the game.
Golfer Andy Bean lost the Canadian Open after forgetting to follow the rules.
Discover lesser-known sports that Canadians have been playing for years, from rattlesnake hunts to horse apple hockey.
A sliced-up lacrosse ball and a rink superintendent’s need to save on window glass prompted the creation of the rubber hockey puck.
Steve Durbano grabbed Bobby Hull’s toupee during a World Hockey League game.
At the 1998 winter Olympics, snowboarder Ross Rebagliati almost lost his gold medal when he tested positive for marijuana.
And many more strange tales from Canada’s best and worst.
When it comes to our beloved "good ol' hockey game," humour abounds in Canada. The Hockey Joke Book shows you just how funny the sport, its teams and its toothless players can be:
- Q: What do the Ottawa Senators and the Titanic have in common? A: They both look good until they hit the ice!
- Q: What's the difference between the Calgary Flames and a bra? A: A bra has two cups!
- Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend playing hockey.
- Plus so much more hilarity!
When British soldiers began settling in early Canada, their sporting traditions blended with a Mi'kmaq game to create a new sport that evolved into hockey. A History of Hockey in Canada traces hockey's roots from those first steps on the frozen ponds of eastern Canada to the modern game we know and love:
- Games that were the precursors to modern hockey were oochamkunutk (Mi'kmaq), shinty (Scottish), hurling (Irish) and bandy (English)
- From the ponds of Windsor, Nova Scotia, to Kingston, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, a new game evolved, and in March 1875, the first organized game of hockey was played in Montreal
- The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia were the first popular craftsmen of sticks; their MicMac brand was the stick of choice for professional hockey players until the early 20th century
- Referees first used cowbells to call plays, and only switched to whistles when people began bringing their own cowbells to games
- Goalie Jacques Plante was the first to use a mask regularly after taking a puck to the face on November 1, 1959
- A must for the hockey fan. Anyone fascinated by Canada's sports history will want to have this book.
Canadian sport is the brunt of many jokes, but Canucks take the jabs in stride and still find the humour in what's laughable from the ice to the water to the field and the court:
- The head coach of the Toronto Raptors asked one of his forwards, "Is your bad play due to ignorance or apathy?" The player replied, "I don't know and I don't care!"
- Q: Why did the Toronto Argonauts quarterback never have a phone installed in his home? A: Because he'd never be able to find the receiver.
- A priest was walking along the beach in Nova Scotia when he came upon two locals pulling another man ashore with a rope. "That's what I like to see," said the priest. "A man helping his fellow man." As he was walking away, one local remarked to the other, "Well, he sure doesn't know the first thing about shark fishing!"
- And so much more!
