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A helluva life in hockey : a memoir / Brian McFarlane.

"A captivating memoir from Canada's foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It's been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McFarlane, Brian (Author)
Other title:Hell of a life in hockey.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : ECW Press, 2021.
Series:desLibris. Books collection.
Subjects:
McFarlane, Brian.
Sportscasters > Canada > Biography.
Hockey > Canada > Biography.
Hockey.
Sportscasters.
Canada.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Now and Then
  • Chapter 2: Skating with Snowbirds
  • Chapter 3: Gone from the Gondola
  • Chapter 4: Why Write About Hockey?
  • Chapter 5: A Kid in Haileybury
  • Chapter 6: Haileybury: A Hundred Years Later
  • Chapter 7: The Pioneer Broadcaster
  • Chapter 8: Happy Days in Whitby
  • Chapter 9: The War Years
  • Chapter 10: A Father's Advice
  • Chapter 11: Small Town, Big Dreams
  • Chapter 12: Living Over a Barbershop
  • Chapter 13: To Stratford and Back
  • Chapter 14: Battling Brophy and Beliveau.
  • Chapter 15: You? Going to College?
  • Chapter 16: On to Schenectady
  • Chapter 17: Bad Luck, Good Luck
  • Chapter 18: Bring Your Skates
  • Chapter 19: Interviews on CBS
  • Chapter 20: Montreal, Here I Come
  • Chapter 21: Toronto Again
  • Chapter 22: MacLaren
  • Chapter 23: The Hewitts: Calling the Shots
  • Chapter 24: The Leafs of the '60s
  • Chapter 25: All Aboard
  • Chapter 26: Success at Scotiabank
  • Chapter 27: An Amateur Among Ex-Pros
  • Chapter 28: The Perils of Publishing
  • Chapter 29: Question Period
  • Chapter 30: Shack and Ballard
  • Chapter 31: My Biggest Hockey Story Never Aired.
  • Chapter 32: Dinner in New York
  • Chapter 33: All About Grapes
  • Chapter 34: Bower the Best
  • Chapter 35: Orr on the Line
  • Chapter 36: The Perilous Adventures of Peter Puck
  • Chapter 37: Mellanby and Me
  • Chapter 38: The Hockey Museum
  • Chapter 39: Our Speaker Tonight
  • Chapter 40: Conversations Recalled
  • Chapter 41: Cole and Gallivan
  • Chapter 42: Scotty Bowman: Born to Coach
  • Chapter 43: Small World Stories
  • Chapter 44: Country Living
  • Chapter 45: Summing Up
  • Acknowledgements
  • Photographs
  • Back Cover.

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