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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last good year
    sub title: seven games that ended an era
  name:
    name part: Cox, Damien
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: We may never see a playoff series like it again. Before Gary Bettman, the lockouts and the explosion of salaries. Before all the NHL's old barns were torn down to make way for bigger, glitzier rinks. Before expansion and parity across the league, just about anything could happen on the ice, and often did. It was an era when huge personalities dominated the sport, and willpower was often enough to win games. And in the spring of 1993, some of the biggest talents and biggest personalities were on a collision course. The Cinderella Maple Leafs had somehow beaten the mighty Red Wings and then, just as improbably, the St. Louis Blues. Wayne Gretzky's Kings had just torn through the Oilers and the Flames. When they faced each other in the conference final, the result would be the series Gretzky called the best he ever played, a series that fans still talk about passionately 25 years later. Told through the stories of seven central characters, The Last Good Year gives an intimate account not just of an era-defining seven games, but of what the series meant to the men who were changed by it. Marty McSorley, the tough guy who took his whole team on his shoulders, Doug Gilmour, the emerging superstar, celebrity owner Bruce McNall, Bill Berg, best-known checking winger in the world, Kelly Hrudy, the Kings' goalie who would go on to become a Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster, Kerry Fraser, who would become the game's most infamous referee and two very different captains, Toronto's bull in a china shop, Wendel Clark and the immortal Wayne Gretzky. Taking us back to that feverish spring, Damien Cox also takes us behind the scenes and into the lives of those who shone brightest during those two weeks. Players made Herculean efforts to spur on the team, from dropping the gloves to spectacular goals and saves when they were most needed and the referee whose view of one play changed history for a generation of fans. Fast-paced, authoritative and galvanized by the same love of the ga…
  note: Damien Cox.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: National Hockey League
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Toronto Maple Leafs (Hockey team)
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Los Angeles Kings (Hockey team)
    topic: History
  classification: 796.96264
  identifier: 9780735234765
  identifier: 0735234760
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 180510
    record change date: 20190122151343.0
    record identifier: in00004008351
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng