Some NHL goalies are great and others are intriguing characters, but a select few are legends because they're both. Such is the case with the dozen players featured here. In Between the Pipes, veteran hocky writer Randi Druzin profiles these athletes, revealing the traits that make each one unique.
Gump Worsley defied the laws of biomechanics by being nimble despite having a cabbage-shaped body. He was also one of the funniest men ever to start in goal. Glenn Hall used to wrestle with a trainer in the dressing room before games and Jacques Plante refused to stay at a particular Toronto hotel. Despite their quirks, these twelve goalies are among the best the game has ever seen. With wit and verve, Druzin paints unforgettable portraits of these masked mavericks.
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- ISBN: 9781771000154
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- ISBN: 9781771000154
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Publisher's Weekly
October 7, 2013
Veteran sportswriter Druzin turns an eye on hockey, in particular on its great goalies. Singled out for examination are a dozen of hockey’s best, ranging from Terry Sawchuk to Martin Brodeur. Aside from their position on the team and their exemplary levels of skill, the goalies have little in common. For every depressive like Sawchuk, there is an ebullient Gump Worsley; for every lifer like Ron Hextall, there is someone who, like goalie turned lawyer turned MP Ken Dryden, follows a path away from hockey; and for every obsessive fan like Patrick Roy, there are goalies like Dominik Hasek, whose relationship with pro hockey was ambivalent at best. Druzin details each net-minder’s origin and career, and in so doing reveals the changing face of professional hockey in the last half century. Oddly for someone with as much experience as Druzin, the writing is sometimes uneven, and the choice of details to highlight is idiosyncratic and often baffling. That said, goalies’ short biographies establish them as individuals; those unfamiliar with these grand figures will find this an engrossing read. Agent: Hilary McMahon, Westwood Creative Artists.
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