| Title | : | Certified Beauties |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | James Duthie |
| Release | : | 2025-10-21 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Winter Sports, Books, Sports & Outdoors, Biographies & Memoirs, Sports Bios & Memoirs, Humor |
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| With its unpredictability, brutality, and camaraderie, hockey is full of great stories. And great characters. Certified Beauties is a new collection of the most compelling, hilarious, and heartwarming inside hockey stories—the ones that the players tell each other. Grab a seat with TSN’s James Duthie as hockey’s finest relive the highs, the lows, and heartwarming, hilarious moments on and off the ice including: · How Brady and Matthew Tkachuk both pulled pranks on teammates that almost went horribly wrong · The night a stunned beer league team had to face Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl · The friendship of Darryl Sittler and Borje Salming and the remarkable story of Salming's final visit to Toronto · When Sarah Nurse became a superstar during the chaos of Covid-19 · How a team of Canadian “misfits” turned disaster to gold in Riga · When Kevin Bieksa got a big break at the worst possible time · How Darcy Hordichuk captured an alligator and left it on Roberto Luongo's front porch With a foreword by Sidney Crosby and a special chapter remembering Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, Certified Beauties is essential reading for every hockey fan. Praise for Beauties “Duthie loves to hear, and loves to tell, a great hockey story. This book is full of them. Most will make you laugh. A few might make you cry. You know how we always say, ‘That guy’s a beauty’? This book is full of beauties.” —Roberto Luongo, from the foreword of Beauties |
