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From the early days at the Corral to the supercharged celebrations on the Red Mile in 2004, this young team has sparked a great deal of excitement from its fans. Read more about Calgary's heroes on ice: - The Flames originally played out of the old Corral, which held barely 7000 people, and the organization operated out of a trailer in Stampede Park - Lanny McDonald scored the Stanley Cup winning goal in what turned out to be his final NHL game in 1989 - Joe Nieuwendyk, team captain from 1991 to 1995, was one of only a handful of rookies to score more than 50 goals in his first NHL season - Sergei Priakin joined the Flames roster as the first player from the USSR to be allowed to play in the NHL - Sergei Makarov, once a part of the feared KLM line of the CCCP team, won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in his first year in the NHL at the age of 31 - The Flames traded Joe Nieuwendyk to Dallas for a little-known prospect named Jarome Iginla - Theoren Fleury started his career in Calgary before his life began to spiral out of control - Two of the Sutter brothers (Brian and Darryl) have coached the Flames in the last 10 years - Players such as Jarome Iginla, Mika Kiprusoff and Dion Phaneuf are set to take the Calgary Flames into a new era of victories and hope for the Stanley Cup. And so much more...

Canada has its own fascinating history of cloak-and-dagger, as you'll discover in this entertaining book by author and journalist Peter Boer. Canada's most famous spy was William Stephenson, the man called Intrepid. The Winnipeg-born businessman suppli

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography

The expansion team Oilers was Wayne Gretzky's first professional hockey home and the Great One led the team to a series of Stanley Cup victories through the 1980s. New generations of Oilers have since tried and failed to recapture the glory years of the dynasty, a legacy that keeps the pressure on. Peter Boer explores the unique history of the Edmonton Oilers.

Peter Boerner wurde 1926 in Estland geboren. Er studierte an der Universität Frankfurt a. M. und am Europa-Kolleg in Brügge. Nach seiner Promotion war er Kustos des Goethe-Museums in Düsseldorf, dann Professor für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der University of Wisconsin. Seit 1971 hatte er einen Lehrstuhl für deutsche Literatur an der Indiana University in Bloomington inne, wo er 2015 starb.Er veröffentlichte Studien über das literarische Tagebuch und die Faustsage sowie Aufsätze zur Rezeption der deutschen Literatur außerhalb Deutschlands, zum Problemkreis des Bildes vom anderen Land und zu den europäischen Amerika-Vorstellungen. Er war Herausgeber der Goethe-Ausgabe des Deutschen Taschenbuch Verlags, der «Gesammelten Schriften» Caroline Wolzogens und der «Historia von D. Johann Fausten».