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About the Author
Michel Roy is the father of Patrick Roy. He had a distinguished career with the Quebec government until 1996, holding several senior management positions for more than 26 years, including Deputy Minister of Tourism, Deputy Minister of Communications, and the Quebec government’s representative in Chicago for 12 midwest states. He is also an accomplished jazz musician and composer, and is currently chair of Telefilm Canada. He lives in West-Bolton, Quebec.
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Triumph Books; Reprint edition (October 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1629371653
ISBN-13: 978-1629371658
Product Dimensions:
5 x 1 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
26 customer reviews
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#1,067,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
As a hockey fan, I was excited to read about one of the greatest players in the history of the NHL. As the parent of young athletes, I was intrigued at the prospect of reading Patrick Roy's story from the perspective of his father. While I expected that he would gloss over some of St. Patrick's more controversial aspects, such was not the case. This is a pretty balanced look at a great athlete, who made some mistakes along the way. This is one of the best hockey biographies that I have ever read. The writing style is fluid and some of the descriptions are actually quite beautiful. I learned a great deal about Patrick, that I had never known before (he had a long history of playing on terrible teams before he became a pro), and I also learned of his proud French-Canadian heritage (along with a French-Canadian curse word). I couldn't put this book down. It was excellent.
If most people do not know yet, I typically read a hockey book for the holiday season. This year the book was read in Edmond, OK and not in Nova Scotia (but was read in honor of moving to Colorado). It was a little different atmosphere for the read. Most of my readers do not know much about hockey, but Patrick was one of the best goalies ever in the NHL. He was a legend as well as a controversial player because of his style, passion, and winning attitude. He played hockey for the first part of his career in Montreal which is a hot bed of hockey passion and intensity. He later was traded to Colorado where he played on two Stanley Cup winning teams. The book is written by his father which makes it a little bias on the views of the events. Typically the father takes the positive outlook on his son, and really who can blame him. The book is a lovely read because it brings me back to my childhood in Canada. As I read, I remember the events. The book provides some insider looks on the feelings, the passion to win, and what really made Patrick great all those years. By the end of the book, Patrick was an enduring figure in my life. It inspired me to "Win, nothing else."
This is an excellent read detailing the mind and character of one of history's greatest athletes. The detail provided about Roy's development and journey to the NHL is wonderful. This book does a fantastic job not only looking at Roy but at the evolution of the game of hockey and Roy's role in that evolution. As an Avalanche fan I was hoping to see more of the details and insight into Roy's career in Colorado and to see how he adapted on a personal level to such a radically different franchise. Obviously his play remained impeccable, but I'm curious as to how he competed and became comfortable in Colorado and how he felt on the experience of playing with the Abs. I would have liked to have seen more about his final two cup and the playoff leading u p to them. The playoffs leading to his first two cup wins were told with such details that it really drew me into the moment, I would have liked the same with the last two.Excellent book, makes me want to rush out to find an Avalanche Roy Jersey for sale!
Good read. What a great story on Patrick Roy. While reading this book I can see the love that a father shares with his son.
A somewhat self serving book by the subject's father. It does not come close to capturing Roy as a goalie or person. Needed to focus on one or the other.Absolutely nothing about his post playing days, which may be the most interesting part of his life.
While his early Pre and Junior work was interesting it was a bit Long Winded to read thrubut overall a very nice Bio
There are some who consider Patrick Roy to be the best goaltender in the history of the NHL. I’m not one of them. But I do think he’s one of the best, and perhaps the best if you go by some statistics. For instance, Roy played in more games than any other goalie in history. He won more playoff games than any other goalie in history, not even close. He won four Stanley Cups and three Vezina Trophies. All really good statistics. But he played from 1984 to 2003, 19 years. And while he was named to 11 All Star teams (why not 15, 16, or 17?), he was named First Team All Star only four times and Second Team All Star only twice. I think that’s pretty telling. And even though three Vezina Trophies for best goalie in the league is pretty impressive, are you telling me that the best goalie in HISTORY could only win three in NINETEEN years and he’s still the greatest ever? No, I don’t believe it. Even though this book sings his praises and, apparently, so do many other people, evidently not enough of his peers and NHL management thought highly enough of him to honor him while he played so that says a lot to me. And even though both Montreal and Colorado retired his jersey after he played for both teams and even though he made the Hall of Fame, I consider him to be merely one of the greatest goalies ever, although I hesitate to say who’s the best. Perhaps I would put him up with Billy Smith and Ken Dryden, among others. Grant Fuhr, to a far lesser degree. Some of the older goalies from previous eras, too, no doubt.The main problem with this book is it’s written by his father, who is a Quebec government official, not a sports writer or journalist, and certainly not objective. And to make matters more irritating, the first part of the book seems more intent upon describing the author’s own life and career rather than Patrick’s boyhood and beginnings. It’s rather hubristic. Eventually, though, Michel Roy settles down and starts telling Patrick’s story and it’s startling grim to start out with. His entire minor league career is ugly. He plays on horrible junior hockey teams, just wretched. And one thing I never understood is, while he was apparently decent, the few times his father listed his junior numbers, they weren’t that good, which his father attributed to his teammates’ ineptitude rather than his son’s, and so I never understood why Patrick went on to become considered the top junior goalie in the league at some point. His numbers sure didn’t reflect that and he sure never led his teams to winning seasons. Weird. Usually winners hoist their teams on their backs and lead their teams to winning seasons. Not Roy.Finally, he got invited to Montreal’s camp. He barely spoke English and had to play mostly in non-Quebec cities for the first time. It was difficult. He didn’t last and was sent back down, but the following year was back. His (real) rookie year in 1985-86 was good, but not great. But when Montreal made the playoffs, something happened and he caught fire and never stopped. He led the Canadiens to a Stanley Cup win and was named MVP of the series, which was pretty awesome for a rookie. And so it began.He had a series of difficulties with coaches in Montreal. During his first few seasons, for some reason, he was forced to share goaltending duties with another goalie, which was pretty humiliating, considering he was much better. There was a possible reason. In the juniors, he had hooked up with this young, new untraditional goalie coach who had helped him develop a new “butterfly†technique of goaltending, which the NHL had rarely seen and detested. His style was frowned upon and he was actually punished by numerous coaches for using his own style no matter how effective it was. It wasn’t until he had established himself with a new coach in Montreal, and with this goalie coach, that his career took off and he started winning lots of games and he started getting career lows in goals against averages.His second year was a down year, but then he came back and established himself. His general manager was always messing with the team though, trading good players to get new players, messing with the chemistry. It was tough to repeat as Stanley Cup champions with that going on. Nonetheless, Roy won Vezina Trophies in 1989, 1990, and 1992. And he led Montreal to another Stanley Cup victory in 1993. However, the team and even some fans began to get somewhat disenchanted with Roy by then, for reasons I never entirely understood. He was making too much money and was standing up to a new jerk coach. Big deal. So they did the unthinkable and traded him to Colorado in 1995, their old Quebec Nordiques nemesis recently moved to the Rockies. Roy would have to start all over again.By this time, Roy was married and had a couple of kids. One of my complaints about this book is his father mentions the fact that Patrick meets a pretty woman and starts seeing her. Later, surprise, they get married! Later, they apparently reproduce. The only time we actually see her at all is when they have a massive public fight on their front lawn in Colorado, which I thought was going to end their marriage, but which evidently did not. In fact, Michel Roy didn’t delve very much into Patrick’s inner being and psyche very much at all, other than to assert that he wanted to play and win more than anything and anyone else at all. Over and over again, he beats that into your head. It gets pretty repetitive.Whatever the case, Roy adapts to Colorado pretty quickly. His coach is his old agent in Quebec. He leads the team to a Stanley Cup win his first season there and becomes a huge celebrity in that state, according to his father, bigger than any other athlete in the history of Denver or Colorado, including John Elway, which I personally find ridiculous and impossible to believe. Utterly impossible. Roy kept putting up good numbers and Colorado eventually traded for aging superstar Raymond Bourque, who would likely be a Hall of Famer but had never won a Stanley Cup. The team decided to dedicate themselves to winning one for him, for some reason, and Roy made it his obsession. And they did in Bourque’s last year, 2001, when Roy won his third Conn Smythe award for playoff MVP while winning his fourth Stanley Cup. He then retired in 2003. After his retirement, he got involved in coaching junior hockey in Quebec and is now the coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his old team.This isn’t a bad book. At times, it’s fairly interesting. But I’ve read many better sports bios, as I’ve read a lot of them, and I’ve read better hockey bios. As I mentioned, I don’t think it helped that Patrick’s father wrote this. He really should have had an unrelated professional write this. It would have been more objective and written better with more and better information about the man himself, I’m guessing. Still, if you’re a fan of Roy, you’ll probably like it. If you’re a fan of Montreal or Colorado, you’ll probably like it. Even if you’re simply a hockey fan, it’s possible you’ll probably like it to some degree, like me. Otherwise, I’d probably avoid it. Cautiously recommended, but obviously only for hockey fans. No point in reading it otherwise.
This book was interesting in the beginning, but after a while the level of mundane and repetitive detail dragged it down. I couldn't finish it. You might try it if you not only really love hockey but are a big fan of Patrick Roy.
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