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The Riverton rifle : straight shooting on hockey and on life : my story / Reggie Leach with Randi Druzin ; foreword by Bobby Clarke.

by Leach, Reggie.

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Greystone Books, [2015]

796.962092 L434r

Philadelphia Flyers (Hockey team) -- Biography.

National Hockey League -- Biography.

First Nations hockey players -- Biography.

Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.

9781771641371 (hc.)

x, 194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.

"Nicknamed the Riverton Rifle for his thrilling speed and deadly shooting skills, Leach overcame a childhood marked by poverty and racism to rise through the NHL ranks, playing for the Stanley Cup-winning 1975 Philadelphia Flyers. Reggie Leach traces his trajectory from humble beginnings to NHL stardom and follows the dramatic fall caused by drinking and his subsequent rebirth as a successful businessman, family man, and pillar of the Aboriginal community. He is of Ojibwe ethnicity, a member of Berens River First Nation in Manitoba. Reggie Leach was a member of the renowned Broad Street Bullies-era Philadelphia Flyers and set goal-scoring records that still stand today. He was a member of the famous "LCB Line" of the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers -- Reggie Leach, Bobby Clarke, and Bill Barber; named for the initials of the players' surnames. In his post-hockey life, Reggie is well-known for his charity work and for steering Aboriginal youth towards making positive life choices through his Shoot to Score hockey school, which he runs with his son. He lives on Manitoulin Island, Ontario"--Provided by publisher.

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