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I am a physical therapist with a lacrosse-obsessed son. I bought this book not because I need to know how to strength-train, but because I wanted to know what muscles should be strength-trained to improve lacrosse performance.

This book has a lot of information about strength-training in general, and it gives nice specific detailed workouts ('Day 2 do these exercises', etc). But it does not tell me anything that I, as a PT, don't already know. For example, it says that for lacrosse, the upper body muscles that should be strengthened are the chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps. Um, yeah. That about covers everything, so - not helpful.

To improve running speed it says to do sprints. Again, not so helpful.

I would say that the author is pretty well-educated with regards to exercise physiology. If you're looking for a concise yet thorough book about strength training, with various strategies for when to train and what you could substitute - this is a good book. If you're looking for information about exactly what muscles to train for lacrosse, I feel this book falls short.

I like the way this book is put together. It lays out week by week plans for the off season as well as on season. The author also explains why certain workout techniques are suggested for different times of the year. I've read through and plan to use the routinues myself and see if if it puts me back in condition to play some over 40 ball. Until then I've reserved the final star.

I found this book to be excellent for the young lacrosse player. It shows the basic techneques and how with repititions they can increase their strength but at a safe pace.

Detailed explanations accompany each exercise to help the lacrosse player train, even in the off-season. Great photos also help the explanations.

This book gives a detailed explanation of every exercise and has photos that show the correct way to do the exercise.

Very interesting read with several heretofore unknown (to me) biographical information and anectdotes about one of the most successful and controversial figures in hockey's recent history. A good narrative of Keenan's highs and lows throughout his travels in the AHL and NHL coaching ranks.

Being a Blackhawks fan during the era Keenan coached in Chicago, however, I noticed that several inaccurate details that appeared. For example, Gordon writes that during the 1988-89 season, goalies Darren Pang and Alain Chevrier were highly inconsistent, contributing to the team's awful first half. In fact, it was Pang along with rookies Jimmy Waite and Ed Belfour who were backstopping the Hawks to their first-half failures, and the teams resurgence in the second half of the season coincided with the acquisition of Alain Chevrier. Also, goalie Jacques Cloutier is noted at one point as being a "mid-season" acquisition; he was actually acquired just after training camp in 1989. These are just a couple of examples which do not reflect well on the author (or editor or proofreader) detailing basic facts.

Also curious was the insinuation that defenseman Doug Wilson was some sort of softie who wasn't willing to make the "committment" to winning. Strange, as anyone who watched the Hawks during his career knows that the majority of the time when he was out of the lineup, the team struggled much more defensively, and I am not aware of any other of Wilson's coaches or teammates making any such assertations or insinuations.

Overall, not a bad read at all, if you are willing to be tolerant or remain ignorant of the smaller stuff.

A definite Hat Trick!! Gordo knows what he's talking about.

I became interested in rereading this book after Mike Keenan's recent appointment to the ailing Florida Panthers. His story reads like a greek tragedy in that his fanatical drive continually prevented him from seeing and learning from his mistakes. Players and management either loved him for his discipline, or hated him for his sadism, unpredictability, and indecorous behavior with the press. Jeff Gordon does a wonderful job of detailing Keenan's strides and missteps without skewering him with a pitchfork. This book is also well-written and as fair of an account of Mike Keenan as a readers are likely to find. I highly recommend it.

Really enjoyed this book. Could not put it down once I started reading it. Found it to be very fair overall. Not a slam against Keenan at all. You learn a lot about Keenan as well as life in the NHL. Get this book!

If I were Gordon's editor, I would give new meaning to the phrase "healthy scratch".

Elderly former hockey star Percival Leary, born in one-nine-zero-zero, is contacted at his residence, the South Grouse Nursing Home, one day by a representative of "Canada's best-selling ginger ale beverage" and asked to travel to Toronto to do a commercial for the product. He agrees, taking a nurse and his roommate, Blue Hermann, former newspaper reporter who wrote about Leary (also known by his Indian nickname, Loofweeda). Leary spends a lot of time reminiscing about the antics of his youth, time spent in a reformatory, friend and fellow hockey player Manfred Armstrong Ozikean, glory days as King of the Ice, career ending injury, and two adult sons. The telling involves a lot of bragging, crazy words and humor, and a bit of sadness. The trip itself involves lots of surprises. And although I am not a fan of the sport (and could have done without the two-page dream sequence of Chapter 35), I really enjoyed this unusual, quirky-character-filled, overwhelmingly funny book chosen as the Canada Reads 2008 selection. Also good: Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand and The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb.

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King Leary is a very funny novel. I really enjoyed this book because its setting is right around where I live. The characters in this novel seemed real and alive. Paul Quarrington is an author who really gets involved in his work. This novel is a great recommendation to anyone who really enjoy's a good Canadian laugh!

Happy Reading and enjoy!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Based loosely on hockey as it was earlier in the 20th century. Written in the first person, a style of which Quarrington is a master (see also "Whale Music"). Also, like Whale Music, very touching at times.

King Leary is an old man now, but in his heydey he was the king of the ice, leaving opponents clutching at air as he executed the famous St Louis Whirligig. He is tracked down by an androgyous advertising company hack to promote a brand of ginger ale, and together they commence a laughter-inducing trip to the big city to make ads.

This book will have you holding your stomach and wiping your eyes. It would be worth the read just to find out the real meaning of the King's Indian nickname, Loofweda, which he translates as "skates like the wind".

This comprehensive and informative book is imperative for all Hockey Fans. It has pictures and statistics on every active NHL player. It also covers the minor league systems and it profiles the greatest players in NHL history. This is a dynamic book.

Received product as advertised--great service. Book is as expected, a great compendium of NHL stats and players over the years--a must for hockey fans.

This is the book a hockey fan needs to learn all about the players you watch and the ones you used to watch.

Tells you (almost) everything you need or want to know about the NHL, the teams and the players. There is only one glaring omission, though. Many times I find myself wondering whether players with the same last name are related, and for some unknown reason this book does not reference family relationships (unlike its major competitor, which does that but does not have other essential information) -- if this book were your sole source of information, you would never know that the various players named "Suter" are brothers... Get with it, NHL -- it doesn't cost any more to include this info, which you have right at your fingertips.

This is the best book any hockey fan could purchase,it as got everthing,last years stats,all the informatiom about all the clubs,retired players,up and coming rookies.It is a great book to own,i will be buying next seasons for sure.

The book effectively and accurately presented the facts but, was wasn't fast pace enough to keep my interest. I will say that it was very exciting in the way that it desribed the USA vs. Soviets game. Overall, it was good but not good enough to get that fourth star.

A great chronicle of those heady days in Lake Placid nearly 25 years ago. Everyone seemed to find something they liked in this improbable victory. For me it was the coaching job turned in by Herb Brooks. It may be the greatest coaching job in the history of sports. Here are excerpts from an AP article about the late Coach Brooks which says it all:

Herb Brooks was behind the bench when the American Olympic Hockey team pulled off the greatest upset ever at Lake Placid NY in 1980, beating the mighty Soviets with a squad of mostly college players.That shocking victory, plus beating Finland for the gold medal, assured the team a place in immortality.

The young U.S. team was given no chance against a veteran Soviet squad that had dominated international hockey for years and had routed the Americans 10-3 in an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden the week before the Olympics.

On Feb. 22, 1980, the U.S. team scored with 10 minutes to play to take a 4-3 lead against the Soviets. As the final seconds ticked away, announcer Al Michaels exclaimed, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

It remains one of the most famous calls in history.
Brooks' leadership helped turn a ragtag team into champions. He had hand picked each player.

"You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back," Brooks once said. "I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country."

Interviewed years later on why he headed to the locker room shortly after the Miracle on Ice, he said he wanted to leave the ice to his players, who deserved it.

Players kept a notebook of "Brooksisms," sayings the coach used for motivation, such as: "You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month."

But, before playing the Soviets, Brooks told his players: "You're meant to be here. This moment is yours. You're meant to be here at this time."

"He was ahead of his time," team member Ken Morrow said. "All of his teams overachieved because Herbie understood how to get the best out of each player and make him part of a team. And like everyone who played for him, I became a better person because I played for Herb Brooks."

Born in St. Paul, Brooks played hockey at the University of Minnesota, where he later coached from 1972 to 1979, winning three national titles. He was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990.

When Brooks decided to coach the 2002 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team at Salt Lake City, he was asked why he would return after writing the most improbable story in hockey. "Maybe I'm sort of like the players -- there's still a lot of little boy in me," Brooks said. "And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done."

Brooks was the last player cut on the 1960 U.S. gold medal team, and unfairly so, the victim of favoritism by his coach. But he persevered, and played on the United States Olympic Hockey Team in 1964 and 1968. And when he coached the 1980 Olympic Team, he did not repeat the mistake made by his 1960 coach. It was difficult and painful, but he did the right thing selecting the players for his 1980 team. And as they say, the rest is history. Or was it really a miracle? That is left for each reader to decide for themselves.

In an interview at his White Bear Lake home not long before his untimely death, Brooks described to the Minneapolis Star Tribune about watching one of his favorite movies, "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams," Brooks said. "We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams. I'm a dreamer."
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The book is the story of the team and its coach as they prepare for and play in the 1980 Olympics. Now out of print, original copies are sought after collectibles usually priced over $150, and well worth the price in my opinion.

I bought this book 25 years ago and loved it. It is much more accurate than the other stories/movies because the authors discribe the contributions of ALL of the teamates and not just the media favorites. Mark Johnson actually gets recognition in this book. It also does a great job of showing how Herb Brooks did the coaching job of his life. The players bonded because they all hated the way Herb worked them. They won just to show him they could. Now if I could just remember who I lent my copy to......

Very well written. The "insider's" story on how the team was put together.

IF YOU LOVED THE U.S.A. BOYS WINNING THE GOLD YOU MUST GET THIS BOOK. THE ONLY THING I DID NOT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK IS THAT I WAS DONE READING IT. ONCE YOU START YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN TRUST ME IT IS THAT GOOD.

I love hockey books and this one is tops. Don't believe the three star review, Ed Arnold is just the right voice to describe these kids and why he and his co-coaches wanted a chance to teach kids that there are always options to choose from and to encourage them to play with open eyes and respect--never afraid to create.

The characters are fascinating, funny, and the author is very engaging and likable. It's a great hockey story. It's one of those that i was so happy to get back to when i got the chance. A real pleasure read.

There's really no way to rate anything higher than this book. It deserves 17 stars. Thank you Ed Arnold and the community of Peterborough. The Minor Pete's rock.

Having sidelined several years worth of US kids' hockey games, I picked up this book with great interest. In it I found useful self-reflection for parents and coaches alike. Parents trying to out-coach the coaches and berating their kids and referees alike is a common problem that needs to be held up more often for examination and I think these issues are well-addressed in this book. Coaches with a "win-at-all-costs" attitude -- yelling at players and shortening the bench need to realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on a kid who just wants to play for fun. (And we wonder why inactivity and childhood obesity is such a growing problem?) It also helped me understand why not using a strictly enforced positional-type play is good for kids' education in the sport and fosters a truly creative player rather than an automaton.
Mr. Arnold's revised attitude to coaching is emphasized rather than explicit counselling on the "options" they reviewed with each player after a failed play. Yet the anecdotes culled from hanging around a bunch of 7-9 year olds make for entertaining reading. Mr. Arnold does state that the book is based on a diary he kept during the season which accounts for the slightly disjointed format but as it is chronologically organized I did not find it difficult to read. Yes, I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who attends kids' sporting events and we would all realize that a positive compliment to a kid, coach, or referee after a game will go miles farther than criticism.

This book is a terrific account of how the game of hockey should be treated. It's all about fun and enjoyment. As a coach, I found myself wondering if I could make the types of change that Ed and his coaches did. They tried something different and it worked. The kids and the coaches had fun, and sometimes too many coaches lose sight of that. Read this book if you are a hockey parent, coach or player.

I picked up this book to learn a little more about hockey, and about Canada's hockey culture. I can't say I learned much about hockey itself...I'd agree with the reviewer who said he wished Arnold had said more about what they *did* do. But I did learn a lot about the intensity of being committed to kids and their sport. The coaches' philosophy of hockey is commendable. Perhaps their hugely successful season (not only, or even primarily, in terms of wins) will inspire other coaches to try emphasizing skills, growth, and fun.

I enjoyed reading this book, and of course fell in love with the kids. However, I gave it three stars because I felt it was very poorly written. This was a real surprise since the author is a professional journalist of considerable experience. The writing was choppy, and many ideas were only mentioned rather than developed. I realize this was meant to be a coach's journal, but surely Arnold (or his editor) could have done more to adapt his telegraphic, daybook style into a better narrative.

That said, I've already recommended this book to someone else. And I'd buy it again.

My recommendation: read it to absorb the atmosphere of Canadians loving and living their national sport, but expect to wade through some awkward prose along the way.

Wonderful if you've ever coached youth sports, or had a kid in youth sports, or played hockey. There are no X's and O's in here, just an expanded "journal" of the season with some philosophy thrown in. Lots of fun anecdotes about the kids and the coaches, some about the parents, and road trips in the Canadian Winter (brrr). I picked it up on a whim, blew thru it in a day or two.

This book might have been more useful for the prospective coach if showed exactly what they DID do in practice. Arnold discusses what they DIDN'T do - "positional hockey" and systems - but does not go into what they did. It would have been nice to know what skating and stick-handling drills etc the coaches decided did mesh with their "equal ice time, learn and have fun" approach; especially with Steve Larmer and Greg Millen having input into how the team spent practice time. That way a coach might be better equipped to follow in their footsteps.

Still a very fun read. And - highest compliment - if I had a kid in sports, I wouldn't hesitate to let him or her be coached by Arnold.

I read this book years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think that with time he has begun to fade into obscurity, but when I was growing up he was truly one of the great players--and as far as I'm concerned, always will be.

For someone who didn't speak much to the press, it was extremely interesting to get inside Mike Bossy. It was great to relive all his outstanding accomplishments. A must read for hockey fans.

In his autobiography, Boss - The Mike Bossy Story, which was published in late 1988, Mike Bossy takes readers through his life and NHL career. The book is logically organized, easy to read and full of insights. He discusses his pre-NHL playing days, his NHL career, his memorable years with the New York Islanders, and his career-ending injury.

Chapter 1 talks about the genesis of Bossy's career-ending back injury, which occurred during a 1987 practice session. He also offers ideas for improving hockey.

Chapters 2 and 3 talk about his childhood in Montreal and his teenage years. He mentions how he met his future wife.

Chapter 4 details life in junior hockey. The title of this chapter, Survival, summarizes what Bossy went through to get to the NHL.

Chapter 5 talks more about his junior career and about how the Islanders drafted Bossy. It is still hard to believe that Bossy, despite all the goals he scored in junior hockey, was only the 15th pick in the first round of the 1977 draft, and that two teams passed drafting Bossy twice. There is a humerous passage in this chapter about the negotiations with the New York Islanders over Bossy's first contract.

Chapter 6 briefly touched on Bossy's disasterous 1977 honeymoon in the Caribbean, before discussing Bossy's first year in the NHL. He scored 53 goals, setting a record for rookies (which would stand for 15 years), and easily won the 1978 Rookie of the Year award.

Chapter 7 is the funniest section of the book. Bossy details his great relationship with teammate Bryan Trottier and some of the more memorable laughs he and the team had during his playing days.

Chapter 8 details how the 1978-1979 Islanders suffered a crushing defeat in the third round of the playoffs at the hands of their arch-rival New York Rangers, even though the Islanders finished first overall during the regular season. Many Islanders in the early and mid-1980s would say that their demoralizing defeat in 1979 (when they were expected to win the Stanley Cup) would make them fear losing.

Chapter 9 talks about the 1979-80 season. For a change, the team did not do well in the regular season, finishing sixth overall. But the Islanders tuned themselves up late in the season (via a trade that brought Butch Goring) and stuck together in the playoffs (against three favored teams, Boston, Buffalo and Philadelphia). In the playoffs, the Islanders dominated overtime, winning six games and losing only one. Bossy describes the uninhibited joy and elation that came with the Islanders first Stanley Cup championship, won on May 24, 1980, on Bob Nystrom's overtime goal.

Chapter 10 discusses Bossy's personal goal of trying to score 50 goals during the team's first 50 games, a feat last accomplished in 1945. Bossy tied the record, in dramatic fashion, by scoring twice in the third period of the 50th game. Bossy would later state this was his greatest individual accomplishment. The Islanders culminated the season by winning their second straight Stanley Cup. Bossy also describes the sadness over his father's death.

Chapter 11 talks about the team's thorough domination of the NHL both during the regular season and the playoffs in 1981-82. Bossy culminated the playoffs by winning the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the most valuable player in the playoffs. Bossy descibes a goal scored while he was completely airborne in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals against Vancouver. Bossy had been bodychecked and, while falling to the ice with both feet off the ice, reached with his stick and shot the puck past a sprawling goaltender and a scrambling defenseman. Only one word describes this: incredible.

Chapter 12 discusses the 1983 and 1984 seasons. In 1983, the Islanders became only the second franchise to win four Stanley Cups in a row. Bossy details how, in the third round of the playoffs against Boston, he scored all four of his team's game-winning goals and nine goals overall. This was one amazing accomplishment. When the playoffs were over, Bossy finished with 17 goals during the playoffs, the third straight year he had scored 17 goals in the playoffs. It is needless to say just how huge a factor Bossy's goals were to the team's playoff successes year after year. The Islanders basked in the glory of their fourth straight championship during the summer of 1983. In 1984, the Islanders were aiming to tie Montreal's record of five straight Stanley Cups. Bossy details each round of these pressure-packed playoffs, when the hockey world focused on the Islanders. During the third round of the playoffs, dynasty faced off against dynasty: Montreal (the dynasty of the late 1950s) versus the Islanders (the dynasty of the early 1980s). The Islanders prevailed in six games, for their 19th consecutive playoff series victory, a record that still stands in 1999 and that no team has come close to matching. Unfortunately, an exhausted, battered and injured Islanders team was defeated by a younger, hungrier and healthier Edmonton Oilers team in the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals.

Chapter 13 details Bossy's participation in the 1984 Canada Cup. Although Team Canada won the tournament, Bossy had a lousy experience.

Chapter 14 discusses how Bossy suffered his crippling back injury and the frustrations he went through in 1986-87, his final NHL season. Bossy desperately wanted to score 50 goals again during the regular season, but his injured body prevented him from doing so. Bossy finished with 38 goals, the lowest output of his career. Nonetheless, Bossy still holds the NHL record for most consecutive 50-goal seasons (nine), a record which no player (including Wayner Gretzky and Mario Lemieux) has tied or broken and which should stand well into the 21st century.

Chapter 15, the final one, details how Bossy sat out the 1987-88 season to rehabiliate his injured back. He mentions numerous futile visits to doctors and specialists.

Overall, this book, Boss - The Mike Bossy Story, is excellent. Bossy's accomplishments: 573 regular season goals, 85 playoff goals, 1,126 points, four Stanley Cups, nine straight regular seasons of 50 or more goals, etc., are legendary. His book is able to present all these facts and other interesting matters to the reader in a refreshing way.

Thank you, Mike Bossy, for a wonderful career and book.

Mike Bossy is perhaps the most unappreciated star in the history of New York area sports. Perhaps it is because he played on Long Island and not NYC, Bossy is forgotton. Meisel and Bossy do a fine job. I hope copies of this book are out there for those of you hockey fans who are looking for a fun book to read. The book also takes serious turns, as the other review here says. It was an accurate review.

My son loves these books! They make him laugh. I have purchased all of the Ready Freddy Books published so far and will continue to do so. He is 8 years old and they seem like the reading level is made for children his age.

My son was so reluctant to read any type of chapter book. An hour sitting on the floor of a store with books all over, yielded a Ready Freddy book. The search for the word 'FIN' within each picture captured his attention from the start. After the first chapter, he was hooked.

My active, sports-oriented, second grade boy who whined about reading nightly has been hooked on this series ever since that first day. He's read a book a week with enthusiasm and has had a willingness to really discuss the characters, their actions, and their struggles.

His vocabulary has grown tremendously, and his fluency gets better and better with each book.

I can't say enough about what this series has done for my child. I'd definitely recommend any of the Ready Freddy books for young readers who may need that extra little push to realize that reading can be so much fun.

As a second grade teacher, it is so refreshing to find a new series that motivates my students to read and love doing it. Such was the case when my students discovered the Ready Freddy series last fall. I've heard it described as a male version of Junie B. Jones. While this is somewhat accurate (he is a mischeivious boy), I see a lot more heart in Freddy than I do in Junie. For the most part, he does try hard to do the right thing.

The humor in the Freddy books is great as well. Whether he is dealing with his friends Robbie and Jessie, his Neat Freak mom, his bossy older sister, or Max the class bully, Freddy offers his unique perspective on his life that my students get a big kick out of.

I have found that both the boys and the girls in my class scrambled to read this latest book. Judging by their reactions, it's just as entertaining as the first three in the Freddy series. I may have to buy more copies of it to keep them from arguing over the one copy I have now! =)

Synopsis: Freddy, a first-grader, is encouraged by a friend and by his own father to try out for Pee Wee hockey. The class bully also wants the team's open spot, and does his best to intimate Freddy into defeat.
This book has its good points: a recipe for tamales in the back, a wise word from the author about bullies and how to deal with them, character opposites and an atypical ending to the story (instead of the expected "I win; you eat mud" solution). However, my praise ends there.
For a first-grade audience beginning to read independently, this book is too long and the vocabulary too advanced. Words like hysterical and annoyed and guacumole don't belong in an early reader. There are even Spanish sentences, which seems an ambitious surprise for students not fluently reading their native language yet. I'm all in favor of kids learning another language, but don't drop it on them in the middle of an english "easy reader." Kids at this stage have little stamina and sometimes little confidence in reading. This book will probably not help in these matters. The reading level is more like advanced second grade or beginning third. Even then I'd skip the foreign language sentences.
I also object to much of the content in this story. Freddy has an older sister, and their relationship--except at the very end--is one big fight. I think this is meant to be funny, and kids will probably find it so, but I was not amused at the name-calling (POOPHEAD? How choice.) and food-slinging tactics. Wouldn't you love your child to learn a few of those behaviors?
I also found very trite the "Girls, too, can be good at sports!" emphasis. I hope kids already know this fact. Many of them compete on co-ed teams.
Another irritation: Hockey is portrayed as cool (which it is), while ballet is portrayed in a negative light. The messages I got was that cool girls can play hockey, but ballet is only for the uppity class priss, who is--of course--a girl!
My final objection is that Freddy kisses his dirty underwear, and then changes into it in front of his older sister. She objects because his underwear is dirty, which to me is the lesser of two concerns presented at once. How about some common decency?

I think that it is a good book because it is funny and because it is short and fun. You can laugh while you read it. The stories all have Monsters in them. I love Monsters. I like the book because it is a mystery.

This was a really good book. If you like Bailey books you should definitely read this one.

There are some weird grownups living in Bailey city. But could the large man coaching the new hocky team really be frankenstein's mnster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out!

There are some weird grownups living in Bailey city. But could the large man coaching the new hocky team really be frankenstein's mnster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out!

This book has some good tips however there are some mispellings and really needs some pics. Would be better off with a publication such as From the Crease. It really needs to be updated and improved.

I loved this book. It helped me win 3 state championships.

Like his book "Goaltenders Are Not Targets", Vic LeMire hits the target with his audience on this one.

Being a member of the most exclusive union in the world can be a real challenge sometimes and its impossible to learn everything you need to be the best on the ice by just playing and figuring it out by yourself. Its nice to know that proven instructors such as Mr. LeMire are now sharing some of their goaltending knowledge and strategies and I have become a better goaltender having read both of his books.

Try it. It works!

I have been searching for a good book to learn how to play in net for some time now. I have seen many different books by many different authors, and this book, Off the Post, is easily the best yet. Vic LeMire has incorporated many excellunté instructional diagrams and photos to clearly explain the exercises involved in becoming a great goalie. Good work Vic, I look forward to your next book.