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- Searching for Bobby Orr / by Brunt, Stephen;
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- Subjects: Orr, Bobby, 1948-; Hockey players;
- © c2006., A. A. Knopf Canada,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- 100 Grey Cups : this is our game / by Brunt, Stephen.;
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- Subjects: Canadian Football League; Canadian football; Grey Cup (Football);
- © c2012., McClelland & Stewart,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- All the way : my life on ice / by Tootoo, Jordin,1983-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
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- Subjects: Tootoo, Jordin, 1983-; Tootoo, Jordin, 1983-; Hockey players; Inuit hockey players; Recovering alcoholics;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Playing the long game : a memoir / by Sinclair, Christine,1983-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. 'Playing the Long Game' is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport. Sinclair was born and raised in Burnaby, BC.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sinclair, Christine, 1983-; Soccer players; Women soccer players;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- All roads home : a life on and off the ice / by Trottier, Bryan,1956-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
'All Roads Home' is a poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canadas most decorated Indigenous athlete, Bryan Trottier. Trottier's father is of Cree Metis descent. Trottier grew up in Val Marie, SK. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller list; libraries may need to re-order.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Trottier, Bryan, 1956-; Hockey players; First Nations hockey players;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Burke's law : a life in hockey / by Burke, Brian,1955-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he's fought through. Brian Burke is one of the biggest hockey personalities--no, personalities full-stop--in the hockey media landscape. His brashness makes him a magnet for attention, and he does nothing to shy away from it. Most famous for advocating "pugnacity, truculence, testosterone, and belligerence" during his tenure at the helm of the Maple Leafs, Burke has lived and breathed hockey his whole life. He has been a player, an agent, a league executive, a Stanley Cup-winning GM, an Olympic GM, and a media analyst. He has worked with Pat Quinn, Gary Bettman, and an array of future Hall of Fame players. No one knows the game better, and no one commands more attention when they open up about it. But there is more to Brian Burke than hockey. He is a graduate of Harvard Law, and an accomplished businessman with hard-earned lessons that come from highly-scrutinized decisions made at the helm of multi-million-dollar companies. Not only does he know the game, but he has expertise to share in the business and management principles arenas as well. And despite his gruff persona, he is also a father with a story to tell. He lost his youngest son in a car accident, and has grappled with that grief. Many Canadians knew Burke's name already, because he became one of the country's most outspoken gay-rights advocates when his son Brendan came out in 2009. Brian Burke has learned many truths the hard way, and is courageous and insightful enough to share them with readers for the first time.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Burke, Brian, 1955-; National Hockey League.; Sports executives;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Mind over matter : hard-won battles on the road to hope / by Tootoo, Jordin,1983-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
"For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it's all over. But Jordin Tootoo is not most hockey players. Having inspired millions when he first broke into the league, Tootoo continued to influence people throughout his career--not only through his very public triumph over alcoholism, but also his natural charisma. And now, years after hanging up his skates, he is more committed to doing things the right way and speaking about it to others, whether it's corporate executives or Indigenous youth. But the news of unmarked graves on the grounds of residential schools brought back to life many of the demons that had haunted his family. In a moment of realization that left him rattled and saddened, Tootoo fit the pieces together. The years that were never spoken of. The heavy drinking. The all too predictable violence. His father was a survivor, marked by what he had survived. And, Tootoo realizes, his community is marked in the same way. Its joy too often sapped away by alcoholism, its youth all too often cut down by suicide--as his brother had been. As he travels back to Nunavut to try to speak with his father about what haunts him, he encounters the ghosts of the entire community. Still, as Tootoo says, we are continuously learning and rewriting our story at every step. He has learned from his mistakes and his victories. He has learned from examples of great courage and humility. He has learned from being a father and a husband. And he has learned from his own Inuk traditions, of perseverance and discipline in the face of hardship. Weaving together life's biggest themes with observations and episodes, Jordin shares the kind of wisdom he has had to specialize in--the hard-won kind."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Tootoo, Jordin, 1983-; Fathers and sons.; Hockey players; Inuit hockey players;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- We breed lions : confronting Canada's troubled hockey culture / by Westhead, Rick,author.;
"A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and shocking incidents of hazing and abuse throughout junior hockey. The allegations read like a scene out of a horror movie. Five National Hockey League players, all of them 18-year-old Canada World Juniors at the time, are alleged to have sexually assaulted a young woman in a London, Ontario hotel room in June 2018 over several hours. When the players learned that the alleged victim had reported the incident to the police, they allegedly threatened her to drop the complaint. Hockey Canada kept the details of the case out of the spotlight and came to a confidential financial settlement with the plaintiff, paid out of a secret slush fund worth millions of dollars that the organization kept on hand to settle such complaints quietly. On May 26, 2022, TSN investigative reporter Rick Westhead broke the story surrounding the Team Canada junior players and Hockey Canada's handling of the case, immediately sending shock waves throughout all levels of the hockey world. Once the story went live on the TSN website, Westhead's inbox on X filled with messages from people who wanted to share their personal stories on how they had been impacted by hockey's toxic culture. In We Breed Lions, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Westhead does a deep-dive into the state of hockey in Canada today. He gives voice to those who have been sexually assaulted by hockey players, revealing the struggles they've had with local police officials in their efforts to seek justice. He also goes inside the dressing room to find out how attitudes of misogyny and homophobia continue to flourish, and speaks to former players who were forced to perform degrading acts of initiation in order to join the team. Looming large in Westhead's extraordinary reporting are the gatekeepers of the game -- league officials, team owners and members of the sport's governing bodies -- who are reluctant to impose change from the outside and willing to sacrifice the well-being of their players and the community for profit. Westhead offers hope for hockey's future, profiling those individuals and organizations who are committed to educating players around issues of consent, putting an end to hazing and redefining what it means to be a man on and off the ice. Featuring a Foreword by bestselling author Stephen Brunt, We Breed Lions will surely generate an enormous amount of debate and discussion among parents, players and all of those who love the game of hockey and want to see it get to a better place"--
- Subjects: Hockey; Hockey players; Hockey; Sexual assault;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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