With its unpredictability, brutality, and camaraderie, hockey is full of great stories. And great characters. Certified Beauties is a new collection of the most compelling, hilarious, and heartwarming inside hockey stories—the ones that the players tell each other. Grab a seat with TSN’s James Duthie as hockey’s finest relive the highs, the lows, and heartwarming, hilarious moments on and off the ice including:
· How Brady and Matthew Tkachuk both pulled pranks on teammates that almost went horribly wrong
· The night a stunned beer league team had to face Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl
· The friendship of Darryl Sittler and Borje Salming and the remarkable story of Salming's final visit to Toronto
· When Sarah Nurse became a superstar during the chaos of Covid-19
· How a team of Canadian “misfits” turned disaster to gold in Riga
· When Kevin Bieksa got a big break at the worst possible time
· How Darcy Hordichuk captured an alligator and left it on Roberto Luongo's front porch
With a foreword by Sidney Crosby and a special chapter remembering Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, Certified Beauties is essential reading for every hockey fan.
