Description
In 2010, Blake Geoffrion became the first player from the University of Wisconsin hockey team to receive the Hobey Baker Award, recognizing him as the best player in mens college hockey. Blake was a rising scion of hockey royalty, descendant of legendary Canadian players Howie Morenz and Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion, and he would soon be the first fourth-generation player to reach the NHL. His professional career promised to cement his familys storied legacy on ice. But in 2012, while playing for the Montreal Canadiens minor league team beneath Morenzs and Boom Booms retired numbers, Geoffrion suffered a devastating injury that ended his careerand nearly his life.
With sure-footed and swift-moving prose, Sam Jefferies tells Geoffrions story against the backdrop of modern North American hockey. Thorough research and scores of interviews fuel this tale of soaring success and terrible tragedy, offering insight not only into one mans athletic journey but also into the rise of American hockey on the national and international stage. Geoffrions brief career, marked by tribulation and triumph, illustrates the subtle but omnipresent currents of American media, sports labor, and the interplay between college and professional athletics. It tells the story of what was, what is, and what may yet be for the fastest game on earth.
Author: Sam Jefferies
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780299344900
Language: English
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