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Certified Beauties: More of Hockey's Greatest Untold Stories
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781443474726
Publisher: Collins
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65
Language: English
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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.
No sport breeds better stories than hockey. We tell them constantly on team buses, long flights . . . over beers after a game. And now it's your turn to have a seat on the bench. --Sidney Crosby, from the foreword to Certified Beauties
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