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Some NHL goalies are great and others are intriguing, but a dozen of them are legends because they're both. In Between the Pipes, Randi Druzin profiles these athletes, revealing the traits that make each one unique.Gump Worsley defied the laws of biomechanics by being nimble despite having a cabbage-shaped body. He was also one of the funniest men ever to start in goal. Glenn Hall used to wrestle with a trainer in the dressing room before games and Jacques Plante refused to stay at a particular Toronto hotel. Despite their quirks, these 12 goalies are among the best the game has ever seen. With wit and verve, Druzin paints unforgettable portraits of these masked mavericks.
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Randi Druzin is an author and journalist in Toronto, Canada. She has worked at several major media outlets including the National Post and the CBC, and has written for dozens of publications including The New York Times, Time magazine, ESPN The Magazine and The Globe and Mail.Based first in Europe then in North America, Randi has covered events as diverse as former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's visit to Prague and the Van Halen reunion tour.Randi has varied interests but specializes in sports. She has covered four Olympics and interviewed dozens of world-class athletes, including NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Jonathan Toews.Randi is the author of Between the Pipes, a new book that profiles a dozen legendary NHL netminders, honing in on the personality trait that makes each one unique. Her first book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports, traces the history of women's sports from antiquity to the present.
