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Sawchuk competed against the elite players of his day with incomparable passion, and was glorious in pursuit of the Stanley Cup. At home, meanwhile, his wife and children knew him as an alcoholic and a womanizer. Sometimes Sawchuk's brilliance shone through to his home life, but mostly his family lived in the volatile goaltender's dangerous shadow.
Now, for the first time, David Dupuis has unravelled the mystery surrounding the life and death of the world-famous goaltender. Dupuis gives us the play by play of Sawchuk's extraordinary on-ice performances, alongside teammates such as Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio, Ted Lindsay, and Marcel Pronovost, and of his famous run-ins with managers Jack Adams and Milt Schmidt. And, he focuses on his tortured personal life, illuminating the darker side of a brilliant athlete.
"I thought I knew Terry better than anyone, but David Dupuis captures a man much more complex than I had ever realized." --Marcel Pronovost, Hall of Fame Defenseman and Terry Sawchuk's best friend
"The hockey world waited nearly 30 years to understand the enigmatic man who was also the incomparable goaltender Terry Sawchuk. In letting those who were there tell their stories for the first time, Dupuis has done all hockey fans a service. We finally begin to understand how it could happen, both on and off the ice." --Roy MacGregor, Author of Road Games
Yet Dupuis' book is dry and makes little attempt to analyze his subject. Amazingly, the author doesn't delve into what the brother's death might have meant to Sawchuk. Aside from the fact that he was a splendid player, we get almost zero insight to what Sawchuk's personality was like when he was a teenager. We don't even find out what skills in particular made Sawchuk such a great goalie. Instead, "Sawchuk" is often simply a reciting of the box scores of the goalies' best games.
The book doesn't attempt to give context to the world outside Sawchuk's life. The fact that in 1967 the league doubled in size, thus doubling the number of goaltending jobs, isn't mentioned. Not a single world is devoted to the idea that the country was changing in the late sixties.
These are only a few of the most standard areas that the author doesn't address. His other problems include a dull writing style, a paucity of interviews, and a sense that he has only chosen to put into print the negative Sawchuk facts that Terry's family (who cooperated with Dupuis)would prefer be in there.
There is still an excellent biography to one day be written about Terry Sawchuk. But this is far from it.
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