Playing With Fire

by Fleury, Theo; McLellan, Kirstie; Gretzky, Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781600786372
• ISBN10: 1600786375
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-01
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

Now in trade paper! 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 began to surface and drinking, drugs, gambling and girls ultimately derailed his Hall of Fame-calibre career. Fleury shares all in this raw, captivating and honest look at the previously untold story of one of our game's greatest heroes.

Author Biography

Theoren "Theo" Fleury won a World Junior title, a Turner Cup, a Stanley Cup as a rookie with the Calgary Flames, and later a Canada Cup and an Olympic gold medal. A former player with the Colorado Avalanche, the New York Rangers, and the Chicago Blackhawks, he now lives in Calgary, where he is a motivational speaker and businessman. Kirstie McLellan Day was born in Saskatchewan, attended the University of Regina, and studied broadcast journalism in Calgary. Her screenplays and books include the Bob Probert memoir Tough Guy: My Life on the Edge; the true-crime novel No Remorse: A Father's Murderous Rage; Under the Mat (the Diana Hart story); and Above and Beyond, a biography of cable magnate J.R. Shaw.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 11
TheEndoftheWorld	p. 5
The Cut	p. 14
The Trade-OfF	p. 18
A Very Bad Thing	p. 23
The Trip to Disneyland	p. 28
Piestany	p. 37
NoJoke	p. 45
A Full-Body Orgasm	p. 56
The Cup	p. 64
That Goal Against Edmonton	p. 89
Leave Me Alone	p. 96
The Terrible Trade	p. 108
Bizarro World	p. 114
An Oxymoron	p. 125
On Top of the World	p. 133
Snakebit	p. 140
A Heavy Scene	p. 146
You Don't Know Squat	p. 151
Beating Each Other over the Head with Sticks	p. 155
Leading the Boys Astray	p. 162
Beginning of the End	p. 169
Nagano	p. 174
Return to Japan	p. 178
Clark Kent and Me	p. 185
The Avs	p. 192
The Rangers	p. 198
Slats	p. 210
Atlanta Strippers	p. 214
Gatorade Pee Tests	p. 221
Dry Drunk	p. 231
Going for Gold	p. 241
The Gambler	p. 247
I Hate Hockey	p. 251
Tweaking and Geeking	p. 255
Chicago	p. 262
I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself	p. 276
A Really Dark Place	p. 284
Tight Jeans and Long Blonde Hair	p. 297
Belfast	p. 305
Jenn and the Butterflies	p. 308
Epilogue	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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