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..."Overtime") as memoir, the story of nine days during his life as a professional hockey player for the Montreal Canadians. The book is intensely personal as he reflects about his ambivalence about playing longer, revealing his indecision about what to do with his life and his once great team's indecision about what to do with its season. His thoughts turn also to the history of hockey and his own love of the Game as a youngster growing up with his brother and to his problems, as an aging competitor, struggling to preserve the integrity of his sense of competition and play. Perhaps the best part of the book are those sections in which he provides close up, in depth analysis of Montreal stars like Guy Lapointe and Guy Lafleur and Scotty Bowman. Especially striking are his portraits of lesser lights like Doug Risebrough and Rejean Houle who struggle to provide themselves with security outside of the Game. Are these character sketches true? What certainly is indeed true is that to Dryden they are true and they tell us that he tries hard to...

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