By Ken Dryden
ISBN-10: 0470833556
ISBN-13: 9780470833551
Broadly stated because the most sensible hockey publication ever written and lauded by means of Sports Illustrated as one of many best 10 activities Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking examine a existence in hockey. clever and insightful, former Montreal Canadiens goalie and previous President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ken Dryden captures the essence of the game and what it capability to all hockey fanatics. He supplies us brilliant and affectionate graphics of the characters — man Lafleur, Larry Robinson, man Lapointe, Serge Savard, and trainer Scotty Bowman between them — that made the Canadiens of the Seventies one of many maximum hockey groups in background. yet past that, Dryden displays on lifestyles at the street, within the highlight, and at the ice, supplying up a unprecedented inside of examine the sport of hockey and an enormous own memoir. This commemorative variation marks the 20 th anniversary of The Game's unique booklet. It contains black and white images from the Hockey corridor of status and a brand new bankruptcy from the writer. Take a trip to the center and soul of the sport with this undying hockey vintage.
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How does a dressing room sound? How does it feel to make a save, to let in a goal, to hear the crowd? What does a game feel like? What about Lafleur, Robinson, Houle, Gainey? I want everything to stop. I want to remember. The next time I think of it—my last season—I say something to myself, too fleeting, too much in passing to be a vow, as I do in a game when the moment is right but I can’t quite feel it, just a quick “Okay, here we go”; and I embarrass myself when I do. t u e s day 23 Breakfast done, the paper read, it is mid-morning and my day is finally beginning.
In an age of “systems” and “concepts” and fervid self-promotion, his answer may seem a little unsatisfying; but though misleadingly simple, it is how he coaches. ” Fred Shero’s Flyers, a good but limited team, needed a system. To be effective, they needed to play just one way, and to play that way so well they could overcome any team. Bowman’s team is different. Immensely talented, immensely varied, it is a team literally good enough to play, and win, any style of game. For it, a system would be too confining, robbing the team of its unique feature—its flexibility.
Pierre Mondou, a funny, likeable second-year player, with a mind too fast for his tongue and a tongue too fast for any ear to comprehend, in English and French, looks up like he hasn’t done the reading. ” t u e s day 37 We all stop what we’re doing and look at each other. ” more than one of us asks. “Câlisse, I thought it was English,” says Lapointe, looking puzzled. “Hey Mousse, easy for you to say,” and there is more loud laughter. Today, we practice at Verdun Auditorium, a short bus ride from the Forum.
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