Special Discount Dropping the Gloves: Inside the Fiercely Combative World of Professional Hockey

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Dropping the Gloves candidly tracks Barry Melrose's career in hockey - a road that has not changed substantially for today's aspiring players. Not many have Melrose's credentials or his breadth of experience in professional hockey. He's played and coached in Junior Hockey, the American Hockey League, and the NHL. As he says, he's been hired and fired, and had his share of disappointments and failures. He's also had successes at every level. Now an ESPN broadcaster and one of the most respected NHL analysts on television. With his trademark hair, custom suits and energetic style, Melrose is applauded for offering fans his honest - tell it like it is opinion.
    Written in Barry's voice and style, the narrative follows his career in hockey, from its start in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, through his years in Junior, the WHA, and finally, the NHL. Along the way, Barry muses on the state of the game, what makes some teams work and other fail, and how he worked to instill a winning attitude in all the teams he coached.
     Filled with behind-the-scene stories of all the legendary players Barry played with or coached - Gretzky, Yzerman, Messier, Bobby Hull, and Brad Park - Dropping the Gloves is a true to life, insiders account of the world of professional hockey and an absolute must read for fans of the game.

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Good hockey book
Excellent look at what happens when you want to play hockey, helps the rest of us know what's going on behind the scenes. Really a good, smart hockey book.

This was my husbands purchase. I have no opinion on it, but he likes it.
My husband purchased this on my account. I am not really interested in the subject but he enjoyed it very much.

Enjoyable, full of anecdotes
The most enjoyable professional athletes are raconteurs, quick with an anecdote and punchline about what happens on the bench or the antics of a journeyman player in the close quarters of a dressing room. Barry Melrose is just this kind of story teller in "Dropping the Gloves."

Melrose had a decent career as a player and would have won the Stanley Cup as a coach of the Los Angeles Kings in 1993 had Marty McSorley not played with an illegal stick. And his straight-forward analysis for ESPN and NHL.com illuminates the game, distracting flashy suits and slick mullet notwithstanding.

But "Dropping" isn't a probing dissection of the NHL. It's not a book where one learns the strategy behind the power play and the penalty kill. Instead, it's nearly 230 pages of "here's what it's like" at all the various stopping points in a hockey career that was somewhat less than illustrious but clearly filled with hard work, laughs and many rewards.

Melrose takes you...