Gordie Howe

Omaelämäkerrassaan Gordie Howe kuljettaa lukijan pitkän ja monipolvisen kiekkouransa vaiheisiin, mutta kertoo myös yksityisemmästä Gordiesta, lama-ajan lapsuusvuosista ja elämästään kaukaloiden ulkopuolella.Mr Hockey -lempinimellä tunnettu Howe voitti Detroit Red Wingsien riveissä Stanley Cupin neljä kertaa, ja hän on ainoa pelaaja, joka on pelannut liigassa viidellä eri vuosikymmenellä. Howe pysytteli NHL:n pistepörssissä viiden parhaan joukossa huikeat 20 vuotta putkeen. Kaikkien aikojen NHL:n pistepörssissä hän on sijalla 4. Jääkiekon kunniagalleriaan Hockey Hall of Fameen hänet valittiin vuonna 1972Gordie Howe pelasi myös samassa ketjussa omien poikiensa kanssa ja keräsi vielä yli nelikymppisenä 100 tehopistettä.Kirjan esipuheen kirjoittanut Bobby Orr nimeää Howen epäröimättä jääkiekkohistorian suurimmaksi pelaajaksi, jonka kaltaista NHL ei ehkä koskaan enää tule tuntemaan.

THE DEFINITIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SPORTS LEGENDThe NHL may never see anyone like Gordie Howe again. Known as Mr. Hockey, he led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and is the only player to have competed in the league in five different decades. In Mr. Hockey, the man widely recognized as the greatest all-around player the sport has ever seen tells the story of his incredible life... Twenty consecutive seasons among the top five scorers in the NHL. One hundred points after the age of forty. Playing for Team Canada with his two sons. Gordie Howe rewrote the record books. But despite Howe's unyielding ferocity on the ice, his name has long been a byword for decency, generosity, and honesty off of it. Going back to Howe's Depression-era roots and following him through his Hall of Fame career, his enduring marriage to his wife, Colleen, and his extraordinary relationship with his children, Mr. Hockey is the definitive account of the game's most celebrated legacy, as told by the man himself. FOREWORD BY BOBBY ORRINCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

More than 30 years after its cinematic debut, Slap Shot remains one of the most popular sports movies of all time, and this book is actor Dave Hanson’s firsthand account of its making. Starring the legendary Paul Newman, the movie was based on the hilarious and outrageous antics of the fictitious Charlestown Chiefs, a tough-as-nails minor league hockey team in the early 1970s. In financial trouble and due to fold at the end of the season, they bring in the Hanson Brothers—three of the toughest hockey players around—in a desperate bid to sell tickets. What ensues is pure comic genius. Here, Dave Hanson—who played ringleader Jack Hanson in the film—not only opens the vault and dishes the dirt on the making of the movie, from the bench-clearing brawls and the practical jokes on set to the legendary partying that went on during filming, but also explores how the movie changed his and many of the cast and crew’s lives forever.