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Scotty
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  • Published: 27 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780771027529
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $49.99
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Scotty

A Hockey Life Like No Other

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29 Oct 2019
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29 Oct 2019
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27 Jan 2021
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A #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Best Book

A hockey book like no other.
A hockey life like no other.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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.
  • Published: 27 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780771027529
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $49.99
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Praise for Scotty

PRAISE FOR SCOTTY:

  • "[B]ecause of Dryden's masterful prose, [Scotty] should be considered a must-read for all hockey fans. It's most certainly worthy of Bowman's and Dryden's legacies." --Inside Hockey
  • "It's possible [Dryden]'s an even better writer than he was a goaltender." --Mitch Melnick, TSN
  • "[Scotty] is a fascinating hockey history lesson given through the vision, interpretation, and real life experience of a legendary coach narrated by another hockey legend and famed writer. . . . The book is also an intellectual portrayal of the mind of the most successful coach in hockey and possibly all of sports." --Steve Beisswanger, The Hockey Writers
  • "I didn't think Dryden could ever match the brilliance of his first book, The Game. But his latest is a worthy sequel. . . . Dryden makes the streets of Verdun in the 1930s and 1940s come alive with the vivid imagery of a true artist." --The Athletic

    • PRAISE FOR SCOTTY:

  • "[B]ecause of Dryden's masterful prose, [Scotty] should be considered a must-read for all hockey fans. It's most certainly worthy of Bowman's and Dryden's legacies." --Inside Hockey
  • "It's possible [Dryden]'s an even better writer than he was a goaltender." --Mitch Melnick, TSN
  • "[Scotty] is a fascinating hockey history lesson given through the vision, interpretation, and real life experience of a legendary coach narrated by another hockey legend and famed writer. . . . The book is also an intellectual portrayal of the mind of the most successful coach in hockey and possibly all of sports." --Steve Beisswanger, The Hockey Writers
  • "I didn't think Dryden could ever match the brilliance of his first book, The Game. But his latest is a worthy sequel. . . . Dryden makes the streets of Verdun in the 1930s and 1940s come alive with the vivid imagery of a true artist." --The Athletic