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Branch, John.
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Boogaard, Derek, 1981-2011.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Violence in sports.
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Branch, John.
Boogaard, Derek, 1981-2011.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Violence in sports.
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Boy
on
ice
: the
life
and
death
of
Derek
Boograad
/ John Branch.
by
Branch, John.
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2014.
Call #:
796.962092 B724b
Subjects
Boogaard,
Derek
, 1981-2011.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Violence in sports.
ISBN:
9781443417044 (hc.)
Description:
371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"
Boy
on
Ice
is New York Times reporter John Branch's chronicle of Boogaard's tragic
life
and
death
. A human story in the tradition of Friday Night Lights and The Blind Side, it's a book that raises deep and disturbing questions about the systemic brutality of contact sports--from peewees to professionals--and damage that reaches far beyond the game.
Derek
Boogaard was a mountain of a man who lived an almost mythic sports story: from pond-hockey on the prairies of Saskatchewan to a first NHL contract in Minnesota, to the storied New York Rangers as the most-feared enforcer in the league. A gentle young man, he was a brutal fighter on
ice
skates, capable of delivering career-ending punches and intimidating entire teams. But at twenty-eight, his
death
from an overdose of painkillers in the wake of a series of concussions helped shatter the silence about violence in professional sports.
Boy
on
Ice
is a heart-rending, riveting inside look at the
life
of an enforcer, a book that, unlike any other, reveals in dynamic fashion the rules on the
ice
, where reputations are won and careers can depend on a single punch. In the case of
Derek
Boogaard, his final battle, with prescription medication, cost him his
life
."--From publisher.
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Biographies.
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Dartmouth North Public Library
Adult Biography
796.962092 B724b
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