NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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A hockey life like no other.*
A hockey book like no other.
Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey history, and one
of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more
Stanley Cups than anyone else. Despite all the changes in hockey, he
coached at the very top for more than four decades, his first Cup win
and his last an astonishing thirty-nine years apart. Yet perhaps most
uniquely, different from anyone else who has ever lived or ever will
again, he has continuously experienced the best of hockey since he was
fourteen years old. With his precious standing room pass to the Montreal
Forum, he saw Rocket Richard play at his peak every Saturday night. He
saw Gordie Howe as a seventeen-year-old just starting out. He scouted
Bobby Orr as a thirteen-year-old in Parry Sound, Ontario. He coached Guy
Lafleur and Mario Lemieux. He coached against Wayne Gretzky. For the
past decade, as an advisor for the Chicago Blackhawks, he has watched
Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, and Connor McDavid. He has seen it all up
close.
Ken Dryden was a Hall-of-Fame goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens.
His critically acclaimed and bestselling books have shaped the way we
read and think about hockey.
Now the player and coach who won five Stanley Cups together team up once
again as Dryden gives his coach a new test: Tell us about all these
players and teams you've seen, but imagine yourself as their coach. Tell
us about their weaknesses, not just their strengths. Tell us how you
would coach them and coach against them. And then choose the top eight
teams of all time, match them up against one another in a playoff
series, and, separating the near-great from the great, tell us who would
win. And why.
Scotty is about a life--a hockey life, a Canadian life, a life of
achievement. It is Scotty Bowman in his natural element, behind the
bench one more time.
