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Playing with Fire

by Theo Fleury
As told by: Kirstie Mclellan Day

Harpercollins Publishers, Incorporated | October 14, 2009 | Hardcover

Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics.

The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the New York Rangers, he was a kid in a candy store. After one season of his next multi-million-dollar deal, this time with the Chicago Blackhawks, Fleury suddenly called it quits and wouldn't explain why.

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 haunted him, with drinking, drugs, gambling and girls ultimately derailing his Hall of Fame-calibre career.

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Rating: 5/5

Awesome book!

Andrew Coughlan Coughlan

2 years ago

This book full of intense and very descriptive parts the early years of the disturbing early years of Canadian sports icon in Theo Fleury. But throughout this book we can understand why he went down that road of drugs and alcohol. He was confused, scared and pressured by his coach Graham James which sent in that downward spiral. He gives us that sense of exactly how he felt with his coarse wording and raw depictions of each of his life changing experiences throughout his Junior hockey career right on through his career in the NHL. He reveals so much to us readers and by doing so it gives us the true understanding of his troubles that truthfully ended his NHL career and nearly ended his life. The story is scary in that its true and I thank him for being brave in getting his story out to the world.

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