When the NHL invaded Japan : the Washington Capitals, the Kansas City Scouts and the Coca-Cola Bottlers' Cup, 1975-1976
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When the NHL invaded Japan : the Washington Capitals, the Kansas City Scouts and the Coca-Cola Bottlers' Cup, 1975-1976
McFarland, c2022
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
When the NHL announced in early 1976 that its two worst teams, the Washington Capitals and Kansas City Scouts, would travel to Japan for a four-game exhibition series dubbed the Coca-Cola Bottlers' Cup, fans and media were baffled. The Capitals and the Scouts were both expansion teams, with a combined 46 wins, 236 losses and 38 ties in their first two seasons--stats made more dismal when considering seven of those wins were against each other. Yet lagging so hopelessly behind the rest of the NHL, they were perfect for a one-off event on the other side of the globe. The series was an eye-opening success. Players skated on an Olympic swimming pool ringed with rickety boards hung with fishing nets that boomeranged pucks into their faces, as curious Japanese fans gasped at the gap-toothed Canadians wrestling on the ice. Filled with rare photos and player recollections, this book tells the story of how two league doormats became hockey heroes half-way around the world.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Period
1. Kicking and Screaming: An Introduction to Expansion in the NHL
2. In the Beginning
3. A Sandy Foundation: The 1974 Expansion Draft
Period
4. The Washington Capitals, 1974-75
5. The Kansas City Scouts, 1974-75
Period
6. The Washington Capitals, 1975-76
7. The Kansas City Scouts, 1975-76
Overtime
8. The Coca-Cola Bottlers' Cup
9. Aftermath
Appendix: Statistics
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"