Penalty Shot (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) Paperback – January 1, 1997

I love it so much because it's all about hockey and awesome I think you should get it !! I do

It started slow but then it got very good. Even if you are bored keep reading it I enjoyed this book and I hope you do too.

It's another exciting action packed sports story by Matt Christopher that every kid will love that teaches many valuable lessons about friendships, good grades, and playing hockey.The thrill of this story intensifies when the reader learns about some prankster who writes a bad note in hopes of getting a good hockey player bumped from the team.Yes, good grades and playing hockey do go together, I strongly recommend this book so much that I am going to buy it for my grand kids, and I'm Marvin P. Ferguson, author of Boys On The Gold Coast.

Okay for family reading or older elementary kid. I liked it because I am a hockey fan and a Matt Christopher fan. I was disappointed because the title caught my eye, but then it turned out it wasn't about a penalty shot at all. I was looking forward to some great hockey action with an exciting cool penalty shot!

great book by matt christopher. once again shows a bit of what reality can be like.

I am currently reading this book with my son and it is extremely frustrating. Mr. Christopher's understanding of the sport of hockey is appalling. The entire central conflict of the book revolves around the protagonist's desire to make and stay on the team's starting lineup. Mr. Christopher makes the so-colossal-it's-unbelievable blunder of presuming that a starting lineup in hockey is the same as a starting lineup in baseball (a sport that Mr. Christopher actually had a good knowledge of) and that just as one baseball player will play center field or shortstop for an entire game, so too will one hockey player play left wing or center for an entire game. And when I say an entire game, please understand that I mean an ENTIRE game. Without rest. Anyone with even the most tenuous understanding of the game of hockey knows that this is not the case, and that teams continuously switch up 3 or 4 revolving lines in shifts during play. The idea of one player (besides the goalie, obviously) staying on the ice for an entire game, as players routinely do in this book, is so ridiculous that it has ruined all enjoyment of the book for both me and my son (who, at 5 years old, already knows more about the game of hockey than Mr. Christopher ever did, it seems).And don't even get me started on his play-by-play descriptions, which never approach capturing the feel of an actual game of hockey!Extremely, extremely frustrating.