Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics. The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the New York Rangers, he was a kid in ...
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Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics. The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the New York Rangers, he was a kid in a candy store. After one season of his next multi-million-dollar deal, this time with the Chicago Blackhawks, Fleury suddenly called it quits and wouldn't explain why. In Playing with Fire , Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark personal issues haunted him, with drinking, drugs, gambling and girls ultimately derailing his Hall of Fame-calibre career.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 322 pp. with index. Introduction by Wayne Gretzky. Illustrated with photographs. Remarkably candid autobiography of NHL goaltender Theo Fleury. Standing just 5' 6" and weighing only 150 pounds, Fleury was drafted by the Calgary Flames in 1987; he was not chosen until the 8th round and the team envisoned him as no more than a minor leauge goalie but he instrad became an integral part of Flames' 1989 Stanley Cup championship and spent 11 years as their net minder. After spending part of a season in Colorado, he joined the New York Rangers. It was in the Big Apple that the problems he had in certain areas of his personal life were magnified---gambling, drinking, drugs, spending nights on the street with homeless persons. Despite all that, his hockey skills were still in demand and in 2002, Wayne Gretzky tapped him to become part of Canada's gold medal winning Olympic Hockey team. He returned for the 2002-03 NHL season with the Chicago Black Hawks but by this time his off-the-rink issues had overwhelmed him ands the league suspended him before the start of the season.
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