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Jordin Tootoo: All The Way: My Life On Ice with Stephen Brunt

Stephen Brunt is one of my favorite writers, so that helps to raise my expectations even higher of what should already be a fascinating story on to itself - Jordin Tootoo's autobiography, All the Way: My Life On Ice Buy The Book -  Amazon.ca  - Chapters - Amazon.com From The Publisher: It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada’s Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader. And when Tootoo was drafted by Nashville in 2000 and made the Predators out of camp in 2003, he became a leader in another way: the first player of Inuk descent to suit up in the NHL. The stress of competition in the world’s top hockey league, the travel, the media, the homesickness—and the added pressure to hold one’s head high as a role model not only for the young people of his hometown of Rankin Inlet but for the culture that had given him the ...