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From the bestselling author of Beauties , more stories 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 an NBA superstar helped lead Macklin Celebrini to NHL stardom What happened when Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl surprised a beer league team When Mike Johnson''s first NHL road trip turned into a disaster 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 Why Darcy Hordichuk wheels, deals, and wrestles alligators With a foreword by Sidney Crosby and a special chapter remembering Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, Certified Beauties is essential reading for every hockey fan. Praise for Beauties "Duthie loves to hear, and loves to tell, a great hockey story. This book is full of them. Most will make you laugh. A few might make you cry. You know how we always say, ''That guy''s a beauty''? This book is full of beauties." --Roberto Luongo, from the foreword of Beauties
