Take Your Eye Off the Puck, Greg Wyshynski
Take Your Eye Off the Puck, Greg Wyshynski
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Take Your Eye Off the Puck
How to Watch Hockey By Knowing Where to Look

Author: Greg Wyshynski, Jeremy Roenick

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/14/2018


Synopsis

A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey.

More and more fans are watching the NHL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. How does an offense create shooting lanes for its best sniper? When a center breaks through and splits between two defensemen, which defender is to blame? Why does a goalie look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the minor leagues the next? This guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey takes you inside a coach's mind as he builds a roster or constructs a game plan, to the chaos of the goalie's crease, and deep into the perpetual chess match between offense and defense. Discussing topics such as what to look for when a team goes on the power play and why playing center might be the most grueling job in sports, Take Your Eye Off the Puck shows fans how to get the most out of watching their favorite sport.

About Greg Wyshynski

Greg Wyshynski is the editor of the popular Puck Daddy blog on Yahoo! Sports. He is an award-winning sportswriter and columnist who specializes in blending humor with insight in covering professional, collegiate, and amateur sports. He is the author of Glow Pucks and 10-Cent Beer: The 101 Worst Ideas in Sports History.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Phil on December 27, 2015

Nowhere near as in-depth or insightful as the football edition of the series by Pat Kirwan. Perhaps there is just more strategy and specialization to football than hockey? ::ducks:: This book was chock full of lame jokes, unnecessary personal anecdotes and pop culture references. Even the glossary co......more

Goodreads review by Nora on June 07, 2016

@Wyshynski is a good follow on hockey twitter, with some pretty insightful commentary on games, so I decided to give this book a shot. And overall, it's OK. It sits somewhere between a hockey coaching book and just a general fan-book, with some interesting insights into the game, but there way too m......more

Goodreads review by K. on October 23, 2017

He's got some weird, complicated feelings about goalies, but the breakdown of NHL stats and analytics was very helpful.......more

Goodreads review by Dlmrose on October 13, 2018

3+......more