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Scotty
- A Hockey Life Like No Other
- Narrateur(s): Ken Dryden
- Durée: 15 h et 32 min
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A hockey life like no other.
A hockey book like no other.
Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Remarkably, despite all the changes in hockey, he coached at the very top for more than four decades, his first Cup win and his last an astonishing 39 years apart. Yet perhaps most uniquely, different from anyone else who has ever lived or ever will again, he has experienced the best of hockey continuously since he was 14 years old. With his precious standing room pass to the Montreal Forum, he saw "Rocket" Richard play at his peak every Saturday night. He saw Gordie Howe as a 17-year-old just starting out. He scouted Bobby Orr as a 13-year-old in Parry Sound, Ontario. He coached Guy Lafleur and Mario Lemieux. He coached against Wayne Gretzky. For the past decade, as an advisor for the Chicago Blackhawks, he has watched Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, and Connor McDavid. He has seen it all up close.
Ken Dryden was a Hall-of-Fame goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens. His critically acclaimed and best-selling books have shaped the way we read and think about hockey.
Now the player and coach who won five Stanley Cups together team up once again.
In Scotty, Dryden has given his coach a new test: Tell us about all these players and teams you've seen, but imagine yourself as their coach. Tell us about their weaknesses, not just their strengths. Tell us how you would coach them and coach against them. And then choose the top eight teams of all time, match them up against one another in a playoff series, and, separating the near-great from the great, tell us who would win. And why.
This book is about a life - a hockey life, a Canadian life, a life of achievement. It is Scotty Bowman in his natural element, behind the bench one more time.
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- Samuel bordage
- 2022-03-15
Awesome for hockey lovers
So cool to here about the different generations of talent and players. Eventually to the best of all time!!
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- Ryan Snodgrass
- 2021-08-19
Long Story Long
I enjoyed many parts of the story; however, there are also long winded portions of the book that could have, and should have been edited out in my opinion. At times it was a bit confusing distinguishing between what Scotty Bowman said/thought versus what the author thinks or says.
Overall I did enjoy hearing about Bowman’s long history in the game and his reflections on each generation that he has been involved with.
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- Alex
- 2021-04-14
Insightful
one of my top three hockey books of all time. Dreyden's "The Hame and Red Fisher's "The Redline" the others. Good book.
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- JJ
- 2021-03-21
Good book but misled
I was hoping to hear more about Scottys life but instead it was more about his opinion about the best teams.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-01-20
Ken Dryden hits the mark again.
Great approach to telling Scotty's story and the describing the NHL throughout his life. Really enjoyed the story and the narrative.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-25
Great book and oral presentation
This was a great listen. As a long time hockey fan I loved hearing the detail drawn out of this great sports mind, and you learn something of the man, his time, and his observations in a beautiful narrational style.
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- Richard Fontaine
- 2020-07-25
Outstanding
A great story about Hockey, about the greatest teams and greatest figures in hockey all wrapped around the experiences of the greatest coach in hockey. Ken does a wonderful job narrating, I can’t imagine anyone else telling this story.
A perfect audiobook for hockey fans.
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- K. V. Horst
- 2020-07-20
walk down hockey lane
If you want a comprehensive history of the NHL since the 1940s from the perspective of its greatest mind this is your book. Between Dryden's analytical approach to Bowman's mind and Bowman himself thinking out loud, it will affirm, challenge, and surprise your preconceptions about the past. It also makes clear how hockey, a dynamic game, will continue to change and evolve as it has in the past 70 years.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-07-16
Amazing Story
Amazing story of the one person who has seen everything hockey has to offer.
Ken Dryden is also amazing to listen to.
Recommend this and all of Kens books.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-01-12
Good but a little long
Lots of good stuff here, but the final chapters are repetitive and Dryden starts to sound a little pedantic by the end. Also, I wish he were more honest about Bowman's dark side and the fact that many of his players found him to be a tyrant. That said, it's a worthwhile listen, especially the first two-thirds or so, which provide a great history of the NHL over the last 75 years.
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- Dennis E. Pipper
- 2020-04-24
Great Concept and Excellent Execution
I already read Dryden's other book, The Game, so I knew what I was getting - very vivid storytelling and very Canadian linguistics. This made the experience even better.
The book starts out but having Scotty choose his favorite 8 teams and then they walk through the teams he chose interweaving Scotty's life throughout. What a neat idea to get a guy to talk about himself when he doesn't want to talk about himself!
Scotty coached many teams so this isn't a book about any one team, you will get lots of hockey history. Since Scotty grew up near Montreal, you can't hate the Habs, 'cause there is quite a bit of talk about them. I am in my 50's, so the teams he talks about are many of the teams I watched growing up. This is a must read for EVERY hockey fan! #LGRW
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- Ken Bauer
- 2021-07-05
Excellent book and reading.
This is my third Dryden book and I really appreciate the details and substance in his writing as well as his solid reading of his words.
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- S. R.
- 2020-01-02
Absolutely brilliant.
As always, Mr. Dryden has written and narrated a masterpiece about two masterpieces. The epic sport we call hockey and it’s greatest coach, our Red Wings coach, Scotty. You could not ask for a better trifecta of awesome than Dryden, Hockey stories and Bowman. A brilliant look into Scottys life, his mind, and his life. All the little curiosities I had about Coach Bowman are being answered in this book, as are so many great insights in to some of the greatest players in this sport. And, just as in Game Change, Mr. Dryden narration is spot on. Thank you Ken....and Scotty. #LGRW
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- Kevin Buick
- 2022-02-19
Great hockey history and insight
Ken Dryden may be the best author/narrator I’ve yet heard on Audible. His pace is outstanding, and he draws out the exceptional insight that Scotty Bowman’s long term perspective on the game yields extremely well. I’ve spent my life loving this game; rarely have I been so educated about things I’d not paid enough attention to in historical context. Would recommend this to anyone who loves hockey.
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- LSmith
- 2021-12-28
Great book on a great coach
Scotty Bowman is considered to be one of the all-time great coaches in all of team sports, with his teams winning nine Stanley Cups spanning a time frame of 29 years between the first (Montreal Canadiens, 1973) and the last (Detroit Red Wings, 2002). He amassed over 1400 regular season wins during his remarkable career and his goalie for five of those championships, Ken Dryden, has written a book on Bowman's hockey life as a player, scout, coach and other duties.
"Other duties" include his current status as a special guest of the Tampa Bay Lightning to their home games. He still attends as many games as he can, goes to his seat in the press box and still takes diligent notes on each game with the chance that he might be able to pass along information to the Lightning staff. That is typical Bowman – always looking for anything that can help a hockey team improve. It is the impression a reader or listener will get after enjoying this book.
Dryden and Bowman will take the reader through decades of hockey history and the name dropping is impressive – Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky for starters as players he saw but did not coach. As for those he coached on his championship teams in Montreal and Detroit, there are plenty of stories and observations of them, from Guy Lafluer to Mario Lemieux (even though he was the coach for Pittsburgh when they won the Cup in 1992, Bowman doesn't talk a lot about that team, only obtaining the job due to the death of Bob Johnson, so he calls them Johnson's team) to Steve Yzerman.
The book isn't limited to Bowman's championships as he talks about his life before coaching when he was working for Sam Pollack with the Canadiens – later they would become a very successful coach-general manager tandem. He also talks about his time coaching the St. Louis Blues as a brand new expansion team as well as the Buffalo Sabres, who were a talented team under Bowman who could never get over the hump.
One other feature of the book is a "tournament" in which Bowman selects the eight greatest teams he has seen in his lifetime and he breaks each one of them down to Dryden and then eliminates them one by one until there is one team left. No spoilers here as one will have to read or listen to the book in order to find out which team that will be.
Dryden is an established hockey author and his work shines here. At times, there is great detail and I believe that the audio version that I listened to will work better for those who both read physical books and listen to audio books. But whichever version is chosen, one will enjoy this biography of a legendary hockey coach.
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- 2021-10-02
Dryden Does it Again
As a fan of Scotty Bowman since the 90’s and only knowing a bit of his earlier storied career it was great to hear how Scotty thought the game. Wish this book was out when I was coaching as it gave me a better thought process of the game and how to approach situations.
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- chris bloomgren
- 2021-06-29
best hockey, no best sports book I've ever read
This is a man who has seen every player you've ever heard of as a rookie on up. This is a man who is a student of the game in the truest sense of the word. The way this story is told is so much much better than just a biography. It teaches history of the game beyond stats and names, It teaches the evolution of the philosophy of the game and I found myself dying to know who would be champion of Scotty's bracket. awesome!! If you are a fan of any sport, if you play, or coach this is a must read.
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- Thomas
- 2021-02-15
Fabulous Hockey Book
this book is excellent in its story telling and its description of the hockey greats
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- Steven Rochon
- 2020-11-20
Like No Other
Scotty Bowman’s story spans from hockey’s Golden Age of Tge Rocket, Plante and BoomBoom to the present. It is as much a book about coaching any sport at any level as it is about hockey. And while I’ve never really been a fan of hockey books, I love Dryden’s ability to communicate his knowledge, love of a great game and his story telling.
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- David O.
- 2020-10-07
Fantastic book for the hockey fan
This is a fantastic book for any hockey fan. Scotty Bowman is the best coach in NHL history and arguably the best coach ever in pro sports. I loved how he went through 7 decades of hockey, identifying the best teams of those decades. Who the players were, what made them great. What were their weaknesses? How would he coach them? How would he coach against them? Great insight into a great hockey mind. If you love the sport of hockey, this is a must read.