Description
That is the tale of hockey, one scar at a time.
For the informal enthusiast and hockey enthusiast alike comes a super selection of essays and pictures celebrating the grit and determination of hockey Avid gamers who ceaselessly and willingly resist damage and complication to play the sport they love.
Veteran hockey author Todd Smith explores a facet of the NHL that may be hardly ever observed. Via in-intensity participant interviews and inside of-the-locker-room reportage, Hockey Strong provides readers a at the back of-the-pads take a look at the enjoying in ache ethos that has been woven into the material of the sport. What separates a hockey participant’s sturdiness from different athletes’ is the truth that being hockey sturdy is greater than a unmarried efficiency or bout or recreation or collection. Hockey sturdy is an approach to life.
Superstars, muckers, snipers, and enforcers alike: the onerous adventure of an NHL participant is a tale of the human frame. It’s the cracking left fist of the Philadelphia Flyers’ Dave Brown and the battering ram proper hand of the Detroit Pink Wings’ Joe Kocur. It’s the unbreakable hockey center of Rob McClanahan all through “The Miracle on Ice” on the 1980 Wintry weather Olympics in Lake Placid. It’s the smashed face Kris Draper suffered all through the bloody contention among the Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Pink Wings.
Medical clearance to combat. Midgame root canals. Overwhelmed orbital bones. Beer league resolution. Mythical beat-downs. Collapsed lungs that move unreported. Unrelenting ache. Restoration and valor. Avid gamers refusing to head out as a result of they owe all of it to their brothers in uniform.
Includes tales from: Shjon Podein, Dave Brown, Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, Joe Kocur, Darren McCarty, Chris Nilan, David Clarkson, Rob McClanahan, Herb Brooks, Jack Carlson, Zach Parise, Charlie Coyle, Rick Tocchet, the Playoffs, and extra!
