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Aging, pain, and hockey’s lonely net: a mid-life goalie’s journey.
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How Goaltending Made Me a Better Person

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    160 pages

  • Release Date

    13 April 2027

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Summary

Bidini’s mid-life leap into goaltending is part sports memoir, part self-help manual, and all meditation on what it means to strap on the pads in your 50s. You’ll learn what hockey’s hardest position teaches us about pain, aging, and showing up.

Saved is about becoming a hockey goaltender in your 50s, and how the position helped Dave Bidini navigate life and aging, meeting head-on the three elements that are inherent to the position: pain, failure, and loneliness.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781770418851
ISBN-10:1770418857
Author:Dave Bidini
Publisher:ECW Press,Canada
Imprint:ECW Press,Canada
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:13 April 2027
Weight:131g
Dimensions:140mm x 216mm
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Saved by Dave Bidini - ISBN: 9781770418851
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About The Author

Dave Bidini

Author, musician, and filmmaker Dave Bidini is the only person to have been nominated for all three of Canada’s main entertainment awards: Gemini, Genie, and Juno. A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written 13 books, and in 2017, he launched West End Phoenix, Canada’s newest broadsheet newspaper. He lives in Toronto, ON.

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