{"product_id":"hockey-night-fever-stephen-cole-9780385682121","title":"Hockey Night Fever: Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wildly evocative chronicle of the decade that changed hockey forever.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Lady Byng died in Boston\" read a sign in the Garden arena in 1970, a cheery dismissal of the NHL trophy awarded the game's most gentlemanly player. A new age of hockey was dawning. For 30 years, hockey was an orderly and (relatively) well-behaved sport. There was one Commissioner, six teams and five colours--red, white, black, blue and yellow. Oh, and one nationality. Until 1967, every player, coach, referee and GM in the NHL had been a Canadian. And then came NHL expansion, the founding of the WHA, and garish new uniforms. The Seventies had arrived: the era that gave us not only disco, polyester suits, lava lamps and mullets but also the movie \u003ci\u003eSlap Shot\u003c\/i\u003e and the arrest of ten NHL players for on-ice mayhem. But it also gave us hockey's greatest encounter (the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit), its most splendid team, the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, and the most aesthetically satisfying game--the three-all tie on New Year's Eve, 1975, between the Canadiens and the Soviet Red Army. \u003cbr\u003e Modern hockey was born in the sport's wild, sensational, sometimes ugly Seventies growth spurt. The forces at play in the decade's battle for hockey supremacy--dazzling speed vs. brute force--are now, for better or worse, part of hockey's DNA. This book is a welcome reappraisal of the ten years that changed how the sport was played and experienced. Informed by first-hand interviews with players and game officials, and sprinkled with sidebars on the art and artifacts that defined Seventies hockey, the book brings dramatically alive hockey's most eventful, exciting decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385682123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385682121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doubleday Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/12\/2015","brand":"Stephen Cole","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448814776575,"sku":"9780385682121","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39fe6e5c-248a-4974-ac68-d93a03b8cfc8.jpg?v=1777260704","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hockey-night-fever-stephen-cole-9780385682121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}