Hockey Gods: The Inside Story of the Red Wings' Hall-Of-Fame Team

Hockey Gods: The Inside Story of the Red Wings' Hall-Of-Fame Team
by Nicholas J. Cotsonika

Hockey Gods: The Inside Story of the Red Wings' Hall-Of-Fame Team
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Author: Nicholas J. Cotsonika
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10
ISBN: 1572434813
Number of pages: 213
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)

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Book Review: Great insight into how this team was put together and inside the locker room.
Summary: 3 Stars

If you are interested in how the Red Wings put together their all-star hockey team. This is a good book. It is interesting to see how the players intereact with the coaching staff and each other off the ice.
It is a difficult read though because it is written in sort of a "random" mode. Do not really know what the book is supposed to be as it seems like a game play by play at points and them seems like a general manager/player issue play by play.
Almost like a bunch of news articles put together into a book with no clear thread to hang onto throughout. Less a story than an insider recounting of events.
But, if you like the Wings this is an interesting read.

Summary of Hockey Gods: The Inside Story of the Red Wings' Hall-Of-Fame Team

Nine future Hall of Famers. The greatest coach of all time, who entered the Hall of Fame long ago. No NHL team has ever had a collection of characters as accomplished as the one the Detroit Red Wings had in 2001-02.

But did it work? Did egos clash? Did they go all the way?

In the tradition of John Feinstein?s best-selling A Season on the Brink, Nick Cotsonika will draw back the curtain on one of the most compelling stories in the history of sports. Never before has an NHL team brought together such a dazzling number of big names. Chris Chelios. Sergei Fedorov. Dominik Hasek. Brett Hull. Igor Larionov. Nicklas Lidstrom. Luc Robitaille. Brendan Shanahan. Steve Yzerman. And, of course, legendary coach Scotty Bowman.

With this unprecedented talent comes the potential of unprecedented problems: competition for playing time and limelight, the burden of expectations in a Stanley Cup-crazy place like Detroit, a city that calls itself ``Hockeytown.?? With access to the players and coaches, Cotsonika will be witness to it all, how the players deal with themselves, how they clash with the mercurial Bowman, how they handle being part of the richest payroll in the sport?s history, thanks to deep-pocketed, aggressive owner Mike Ilitch. Cotsonika will provide, in sharply engaging fashion, many details of a season in the NHL usually hidden from view.

This stew of unprecedented personalities and pressure is bound to be irresistible to every hockey fan.

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