One Night Only Conversations with the NHL's One-Game Wonders

by Reid, Ken; Marek, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781770412972
• ISBN10: 1770412972
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-10-11
• Publisher: ECW Press

Summary

Get to know the men who fulfilled their childhood dream

From the beer league to the minor league, hockey players from coast to coast often say they’d give anything to play just one game in the NHL. One Night Only brings you the stories of 39 men who lived the dream — only to see it fade away almost as quickly as it arrived. Ken Reid talks to players who had one game, and one game only, in the National Hockey League — including the most famous single-gamer of them all: the coach himself, Don Cherry.

Was it a dream come true or was it heartbreak? What did they learn from their hockey journey and how does it define them today? From the satisfied to the bitter, Ken Reid unearths the stories from hockey’s equivalent to one-hit wonders in the follow-up to his bestselling Hockey Card Stories.

Author Biography

Ken Reid co-anchors the weeknight prime time edition of Sportsnet Central alongside Evanka Osmak. He is also a co-host of Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown on Sportsnet 590 The FAN. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Ash, and his two boys, Jacoby and Langdon.

He still dreams of playing just a single shift in the NHL, but that ain’t gonna happen. Jeff Marek hosts Sportsnet’s Thursday Night Hockey and co-hosts Hockey Central Saturday. He is also co-host of the Marek vs. Wyshynski podcast with Greg Wyshynski.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeff Marek
Introduction

Chapter One: School Ties
BOB RING — A Saving Grace
SID VEYSEY — Mr. Comeback
GLENN TOMALTY — House League Hero
KEN DUGGAN — Retired Times Two
BROCK TREDWAY — Hockey’s Moonlight Graham
TREVOR FAHEY — Coach International
JAMIE DOORNBOSCH — What Are You Doing Tomorrow Night?

Chapter Two: Old School
HILLARY “MINNIE” MENARD — Best Week Ever
LEN BRODERICK — It’s in the Cards
PAUL KNOX — The Night Horton Got Hit
JACK MARTIN — The Friends You Make

Chapter Three: Let’s Go, Pretty Boy
CAM BROWN — A Hall of Fame Career
SEAN SELMSER — Go Time
PAT MAYER — Muscle for Mario
SEAN McMORROW — Fighting for a Spot

Chapter Four: The WHA Connection
BOB WHITLOCK — The WHA Connection
JACK STANFIELD — Coming to a TV Near You

Chapter Five: All in the Family
GREG HICKEY — Come on out by the Pool
JORDAN SIGALET — Less than a Minute of Magic/The Sigalet Boys (Part One)
JONATHAN SIGALET — The Sigalet Boys (Part Two)
DARRYL OLSEN — Proud Papa
DARIN SCEVIOUR — Proud Papa II

Chapter Six: Make Your Mark
LARRY KWONG — The Trail Blazer
DEAN MORTON — The Ref
BRAD FAST — Making NHL History
RON LOUSTEL — One Night and 10 Goals

Chapter Seven: Junior Stars
BRENT KRAHN — The First Rounder
DAVE CHARTIER — Wheat Kings and Bigger Things
DARREN BOYKO — Hanging in the Hall
TRENT KAESE — The Big Book of British Scoring
MIKE KEATING — If I Can Make It There . . .

Chapter Eight: Skating with the Stars
BRANDY SEMCHUK — Dining with 99
ROBBIE IRONS — A Komet Tucked between Two Legends
DEAN CLARK — A Drop of Oil
JEROME MRAZEK — A Holy Intervention

Chapter Nine: Lifers
DON WADDELL — A Life in the Game
BLAIR MACKASEY — The Unintentional Hockey Lifer
MIKE MURRAY — I Should Have Shot
KIRK TOMLINSON — The Total Package

Chapter Ten: The King of the One-Gamers
DON CHERRY — A Night at the Forum and So Much More

Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright