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Used Book in Good Condition
Specs:
| Height | 8.2 Inches |
| Length | 5.6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | September 2000 |
| Weight | 0.5291094288 Pounds |
| Width | 0.6 Inches |
Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds by Jack Falla
http://www.amazon.com/Home-Ice-Reflections-Backyard-Frozen/dp/1930845049
Great book about hockey. Can not recommend it enough.
There is no shortage of books that describe how participating in a particular sporting activity strengthens bonds between people. Falla's book accomplishes this feat through a collection of essays on backyard skating rinks and frozen ponds and how these local skating venues allow their participants to get in touch with the game of hockey in addition to building relationships with family and friends. The author, a sportswriter and author of Sports Illustrated Hockey, is the architect and CEO of his full-scale backyard rink, the Bacon Street Omni, around which neighborhood life seems to revolve during the long, cold months. Each essay is short and provides for excellent recreational reading for people interested in skating in general and hockey in particular. Throughout, the author's love for winter sports is clear, especially as a link between his New England childhood and his current life, but readers who have never put on a pair of skates may have trouble connecting with this well written book. --Library Journal
It's if it were me, not the median person. Crosby was super apologetic in the moment, and that's all that would be necessary.
Say occassional-Leafs-callup Josh Leivo high-sticks a ref in an NHL game. Should he do the same thing (send a stick)? Is it just as meaningful, despite him being a bubble NHLer? I don't know the answers. Does the weirdness begin to show up a little here?
Not making any particular point, but I read a nice book by sportswriter Jack Falla in which he tells a story of how he played in a practice with the Oilers and Gretzky gave him a stick. Of course he appreciated the stick, but he just took it home and put it in with all the other normal store-bought sticks, and him and his kids used it on the backyard rink. Eventually it broke, and he lost track of it but suspected it was now just a stake used to hold up the rink's boards or tomato vines in the garden.