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The Grind Line: The Gears That Powered the Detroit Red Wings to the Summit
By the author of the award-winning best-seller, The Russian Five.
The Grind Line is one of the most successful units in hockey history, and without peer among so-called fourth lines, for those who insist on numbering them.
Kris Draper, flanked by Kirk Maltby and Joe Kocur, and later Darren McCarty, deserve their rightful place in Detroit shoulder-to-shoulder with the Production Line, the most famous forward unit in National Hockey League Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay alongside Sid Abel, and later Alex Delvecchio, four men whose numbers hang from the rafters at Little Caesers Arena.
This book argues, and has the receipts to prove it, that the Grind Line was every bit as important in its era as the Production Line was in the dynastic 1950s.
"Those four guys, they made all the difference," says Scotty Bowman, the Hockey Hall of Fame coach who wrote the foreword to this book.
The Grind Line is one of the most successful units in hockey history, and without peer among so-called fourth lines, for those who insist on numbering them.
Kris Draper, flanked by Kirk Maltby and Joe Kocur, and later Darren McCarty, deserve their rightful place in Detroit shoulder-to-shoulder with the Production Line, the most famous forward unit in National Hockey League Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay alongside Sid Abel, and later Alex Delvecchio, four men whose numbers hang from the rafters at Little Caesers Arena.
This book argues, and has the receipts to prove it, that the Grind Line was every bit as important in its era as the Production Line was in the dynastic 1950s.
"Those four guys, they made all the difference," says Scotty Bowman, the Hockey Hall of Fame coach who wrote the foreword to this book.
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Keith Gave
9 books5 followersKeith Gave spent six years in the United States Army as a Russian linguist working for the National Security Agency during the Cold War. Nothing could have better prepared him for a career as a sports writer covering hockey for the Detroit Free Press.
His 15 years with the newspaper were the highlight of a career spanning nearly 40 years in the news industry, which include 14 years as a college journalism instructor. He also contributed as a writer/producer to the documentary film, The Russian Five, scheduled for release in 2018. He lives in Roscommon, Michigan, where he continues to write when he’s not sneaking off to cast a fly to the trout on his home waters of the Au Sable River.
His 15 years with the newspaper were the highlight of a career spanning nearly 40 years in the news industry, which include 14 years as a college journalism instructor. He also contributed as a writer/producer to the documentary film, The Russian Five, scheduled for release in 2018. He lives in Roscommon, Michigan, where he continues to write when he’s not sneaking off to cast a fly to the trout on his home waters of the Au Sable River.
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