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Keon and me : my search for the lost soul of the Leafs / Dave Bidini.

by Bidini, Dave.

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Penguin Group, 2013.

796.962092 K37b

Bidini, Dave -- Childhood and youth.

Toronto Maple Leafs (Hockey team) -- History.

Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.

Rock musicians -- Canada -- Biography

Guitarists -- Canada -- Biography.

Bullying in schools -- Biography.

Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.

9780670066476 (hc.)

0670066478 (hc.)

295 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"Hockey is the lens through which we see our lives--how we measure right and wrong, how we understand our hopes and fears. So it was for Dave Bidini in 1974, the last year Dave Keon played in Toronto. In a new grade in a new school, Bidini found himself the victim of a bully--a depredation he could understand only by thinking about what the Leafs dauntless captain went through game after game. Throughout his twenty-two-year career, Keon was only in one hockey fight, in his last game as a Leaf on April 22, 1974. It was on this day that the eleven-year-old Bidini decided to fight back, an occasion that the writer looks back on with breathtaking courage and honesty. But while Bidini would remain a blue-blooded Leafs fan into adulthood, Keon became estranged from the franchise with which he'd won four Stanley Cups, two Lady Byngs, and the first ever Conn Smythe Trophy in 1967. Told in two narratives--one from the point of view of the young Bidini growing up in Toronto in the early 70s and one from the perspective of the man looking for his absent hero--Keon and Me tells not only the story of a hockey icon who has haunted Toronto for decades, but of a life lived in parallel to Keon's. It’s the story of cultural change, an account of the tribulations of the NHL's most beloved (and most despised) franchise in the decades since Keon left under a cloud, and most of all, it is a story of growing up, with all the wisdom and sadness that imparts. Part ode to a legendary hockey player, part memoir, Keon and Me captures what we all cherish in the game we love and the importance of the innocence we cling to long after the cheers have faded. Dave Bidini is a founding member of the rock band Rheostatics. He currently performs with his band, BidiniBand.."--Provided by publisher.

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