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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I disagree. Most people know that Dryden is a windbag.
That being said, it really is a hell of a book. It got a little windy in spots but he told such great stories about how that team "worked", how the players got along, shaving cream in skates and all that.
He made Guy Lapointe come off like Rodney Dangerfield, but not in the way that a lot of sports biographies go off on telling wild tales of drunken debauchery for cheap (but good) laughs.
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I got him to autograph my copy of the book on a book tour about 12 years ago. He had a huge smile on his face, seeing how dog eared my copy was, I think I'd read it 3 or 4 times.