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Legacy on Ice

Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth

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Legacy on Ice

By: Sam Jefferies
Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
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In 2010, Blake Geoffrion became the first player from the University of Wisconsin hockey team to receive the Hobey Baker Award, recognizing him as the best player in men’s college hockey. Blake was a rising scion of hockey royalty, descendant of legendary Canadian players Howie Morenz and Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion, and he would soon be the first fourth-generation player to reach the NHL. His professional career promised to cement his family’s storied legacy on ice. But in 2012, while playing for the Montreal Canadiens’ minor league team beneath Morenz’s and Boom Boom’s retired numbers, Geoffrion suffered a devastating injury that ended his career—and nearly his life.

With sure-footed and swift-moving prose, Sam Jefferies tells Geoffrion’s story against the backdrop of modern North American hockey. Thorough research and scores of interviews fuel this tale of soaring success and terrible tragedy, offering insight not only into one man’s athletic journey but also into the rise of American hockey on the national and international stage. Geoffrion’s brief career, marked by tribulation and triumph, illustrates the subtle but omnipresent currents of American media, sports labor, and the interplay between college and professional athletics. It tells the story of what was, what is, and what may yet be for the fastest game on earth.

The book is published by University of Wisconsin Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2023 Sam Jefferies (P)2025 Redwood Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

“A wonderful book about the fastest, meanest, greatest sport in the world and a man who lived it to the core.” (Rich Cohen, author of Pee Wees)

“Jefferies tells the story in descriptive, quick to the punch prose.” (Shepherd Express)

“A must read...easy to devour the book in short order.” (The Mitchell Advocate)

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N.B. I received a free copy of this book via freeaudiobookcodes.com. I also am on staff at EliteProspects. I enjoyed this book. I knew that Blake had a multigenerational pedigree and that his career came to an abrupt end, but I still learned quite a bit about him, his family, and the development of the NTDP. It also made me think about the development of hockey in Nashville that I hadn't really thought about and how connected it was to the auto industry and unions. Definitely recommend it to hockey fans. Narrator had some weird pronunciations, but also tried mimicking some arena sounds pretty well.

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I love the flow of this story! It really came to life with narration. The devotion to college hockey is something I really didn’t quite understand until reading this book. Looking forward to the author writing another one soon!

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