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GAMES GOALS GLORY: THE A-LEAGUES TEAMS, PLAYERS, COACHES AND GREATEST MOMENTS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Roy Hay | 208 pages | 01 Oct 2016 | HARDIE GRANT BOOKS | 9781743791806 | English | South Yarra, Australia Games Goals Glory: The A-League's Teams, Players, Coaches and Greatest Moments by Roy Hay Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read View source View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Besart Berisha. Shane Smeltz. Archie Thompson. Jamie Maclaren. Alex Brosque. Kosta Barbarouses. Mark Bridge. Bruno Fornaroli. Matt Simon. Andy Keogh. Melbourne Victory. Brisbane Roar [2]. Adelaide United. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Ange Postecoglu ,. Simon Hill ,. Andy Harper ,. Michael Cockerill ,. Melanie McLaughlan ,. Joe Gorman ,. Richard Kreider ,. Bill Murray ,. Andrew Howe. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Friend Reviews. His response? Two goals and an assist. A year after being one of the most hated men in England, he won the PFA Player of the Year award for his excellent displays as United raced to their ninth Premier League title. Ronaldo also deserves huge credit for his physical transformation. A report from the Daily Star once claimed Ronaldo does 3, sit-ups a day! In an age where fitness is hugely important in football, Ronaldo has well and truly led the way and deserves huge credit for that. More trophies and accolades followed, including a second successive Player of the Year award, another Premier League title and a Champions League winners medal in Ronaldo received the ball from 40 yards out before rifling it straight into the top corner. It proved to be the deciding strike in the tie as United advanced to the semis. Ange Postecoglu ( of Games Goals Glory) Jacques Lemaire had a 12 year career in Montreal during which he won eight Stanley Cups including four in a row in his last four seasons in the league from until He broke in with the Canadiens just as the NHL was adding six new franchises He never scored fewer than 20 goals in any of his 12 NHL seasons. Lemaire became known as a playmaking center with one of the hardest most accurate slap-shots in the league. He started in Montreal though as a checking winger trying to find a job. His thirteen points that playoff were second on the team only to another youngster the 23 year old Yvan Cournoyer. Lemaire gained fame as the offensive center between sniper Steve Shutt and Guy Lafleur. He was great in the face- off circle and became known as the defensively responsible member of the big scoring line in Montreal. At age 32 he had his best offensive season in the league with 97 points as the Habs cruised to another cup in Jacques Lemaire was that rare combination of offensive skill and defensive awareness that made him one of the greatest players in Montreal Canadiens history. Claude Provost spent his exclusive fifteen year career with the Montreal Canadiens as a defensive specialist. His biggest claim to fame was his ability to shut-down Chicago superstar Bobby Hull without fouling. Hull showed nothing but respect for Provost who seemed to have a knack for getting to a spot on the ice ahead of the puck and breaking up a play just as the puck arrived. The ungainly Provost had an awkward looking wide stance as he skated and yet he seemed to get everywhere on time. The lack of blazing speed forced Provost to become a student of the game. His analytical approach allowed him to check the games great stars throughout the fifties and sixties and render them ineffective. Provost played a key role on nine Stanley Cup champion teams in Montreal including five in a row at the start of his career. Claude Provost popularized the idea of the defensive forward in Montreal making it a respected role. His skill at it explained the longevity of his career on a Montreal team laden with more talented players. There was no one on those teams that worked harder than Claude Provost. Patrick Roy played what amounted to ten and a half seasons of hockey in Montreal. In that time he won 4 William M. Jennings trophies as the goalie on the team with the fewest goals against it in the league, three Vezina trophies as the leagues best goalie and two Conn Smythe trophies as the playoff MVP for the two Stanley Cups he won in Montreal. He lead the league four times in save percentage with Montreal. The first time he lead the league with a. Patrick also had the lowest GAA twice in his time in Montreal with 2. Joe Malone was one of the greatest players in hockey history and certainly one of the best from first half of the 20th century. Malone still holds the record for most goals in one game, seven. Malone played in rover era of hockey and at a time where players played 60 minutes barring injury. The change from center didn't hurt him. He scored five goals in his first game in the new league and followed up with a hat trick. By the end of the season he had scored 44 goals in 20 games, a record that even Gretzky couldn't touch. He was a member of the Canadiens team that won the cup in though he never played in the playoffs that year. Malone had one of the greatest seasons in hockey history as a Montreal Canadien. He was however really a career Quebec Bulldog and with only four seasons with Les Habitants Malone can't be one of the greatest 25 Montreal Canadiens of all time. Yvan Cournoyer played in 16 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens finishing as captain. He was one of the fastest players in the league for most of that time. He also had a slapshot that hobbled defenceman when it hit them. He managed to score over 24 goals in 12 consecutive seasons and over forty goals four times. Cournoyer excelled in the playoffs and in international competition. His speed allowed him to compete with anyone at any level. He won ten Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens. His 15 goals in 17 games in the playoffs were a record at the time and earned him a Conn Smythe trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs. Playing against the Russians in the series he earned the nickname "The Train" from the Russian players because once he got going he couldn't be stopped. In a tournament where the Canadian team often suffered in a comparison of skating speed with the Russians, Cournoyer was never out matched or out-skated. The year Rocket Richard scored fifty goals in fifty games and surpassed Joe Malones record for most goals in a season Lach had 80 points and 54 assists to lead the league and won the Hart trophy as league MVP. Lach struggled with injuries his whole career but when he managed to play a full season in he had 61 points in 60 games. His 30 goals that year were a career best surpassing even his numbers during the war years and he won the first Art Ross trophy as the leagues point leader. Lach won three Stanley Cups in Montreal with the Canadiens. He still holds the record for most assists in a game by a Canadien with six. If Elmer had played in an era when a MVP award was given out in the playoffs he might have earned one in or 46 when he managed in 12 and then 17 points in 9 playoff games each of those years. He lead the team in playoff scoring in George Vezina was picked up by the Canadiens in when he shut-out the Canadiens in and Exhibition game. The tiny Vezina played six seasons with them before the NHL was even formed. Vezina played in an era before players were allowed to drop to the ice to stop a puck. He recorded the first shut-out in NHL history and won two cups with the Canadiens. He played in five Stanley Cup finals for Montreal. He played all his professional games consecutively without a break or substitution in his 16 years with Les Habitants. Vezina collapsed in his last NHL game. He died in at the age of 38 of tuberculosis. The Vezina trophy was created to honour him and was given out at the time to the goaltender who lead the league in goals against average. Since the trophy has been given to the goalie voted as the best in the league by the NHL general managers. Blake played 13 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens reaching the playoffs ten times. Toe won the NHL scoring title in the season. He won the Hart trophy the same year. He was a sniper who also could fight and he insulated the "Rocket" from the attentions of other teams goons. A badly broken leg ended his career in and broke up what was perhaps the greatest line in Montreal Canadiens history. Durnan played only seven seasons for the Montreal Canadiens and yet he won the Vezina trophy every one of those years except in when he lost out to "Turk" Broda of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The ambidextrous Durnan wore two modified catching gloves and no blocker and would switch his stick from hand to hand as the situation demanded. He was an excellent fast ball pitcher as well and his glove work was the best in the league.