Guy lafleur biography book
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Overtime: The Legend of Guy Lafleur
“You know as well as I,” an aging businessman recently told Lafleur,
“that they’ll never leave you alone. That’s the way we are in
Quebec. You must know that. When we love someone, we try to devour
him.” This book, then, is not simply about the exploits of one of our
favorite sports heroes; it is about Quebec, and love, and the
ambivalence of wanting and not wanting to be devoured.
We no longer expect the biographies of our hockey heroes to be
embellished accounts of their most memorable games. The simple “he
shoots, he scores” approach expired with Ken Dryden’s The Game. Now
we want to know that men like Lafleur have souls as well as hearts. And
in this case the soul is bared: his brooding, solitary nature, his
family upbringing, the pressure of being a hockey player in Quebec, the
seeming commercial cupidity of the Canadiens organization, the demands
of stardom, his unstable marriage, the worry and frustration, and the
poetic temperament of a deeply sensitive person.
The athletic thrills and spills are almost forgotten under the weight
of so much personal angst. And yet, the book is very good—not only
because it is well written, ingeniously organized, and always engaging;
but because it is salutary as well. Is it too much to expect th
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Guy Lafleur
Canadian ice hockey player (–)
Ice hockey player
Guy Damien LafleurOC CQ (September 20, – April 22, ), nicknamed "the Flower" and "Le Démon Blond", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 50 goals in six consecutive seasons as well as 50 goals and points in six consecutive seasons.[1] Between and , Lafleur played right wing for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons, and five Stanley Cup championships in , , , , and (all with the Canadiens).[2] Lafleur was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in , named one of the Greatest NHL Players in history in ,[3] and was named to the Order of Hockey in Canada in
Early life
[edit]Lafleur was born on September 20, , in Thurso, Quebec.[4] He started playing hockey at the age of five after receiving his first hockey stick as a Christmas present.[5]
Playing career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]As a youth, he played at the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament three consecutive years from to , and scored a tournament record of 64 points.[6][7] In his teens, Lafleur gained considerable recog