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Babcock's Bench Boy: Beneath the Scowl: The Tale of the Speed Goats
Babcock's Bench Boy Beneath the Scowl The Tale of the Speed Goats Author:Rich Reay Before winning Olympic gold medals, the World Championships, the Stanley Cup, and becoming the highest-paid ice hockey coach in the world, an unemployed Mike Babcock, unable to secure another coaching job, accepted a last-minute position at a fading university hockey program. That year, Mike would pilot perhaps the greatest improbable Cinderella... more » story in Canadian University hockey history. This last-minute decision that led to the unlikeliest of championship teams would change Mike?s coaching career forever, setting him up on an eventual career path to the National Hockey League (NHL) and rock-star-like status at the center of the Canadian hockey universe. A true story of how Mike single-handedly led a second-rate team, with no apparent future, into a national championship squad as told by a player who played on that team, a player who spent most of that season in Mike?s doghouse under his now famous death-stare scowl.« less