Now a feature film produced by Academy Award-nominee Howard Baldwin
and featuring Dylan Playfair, Jack Mulhern, Trevor Gretzky, and
Elektra Kilbey! In his hilarious, gritty, and touching debut, Bill
Keenan-a hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHL-tells of how
he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption
in the strange world of European minor-league professional hockey.
Keenan's hockey obsession begins as a five-year-old on Lasker Rink
in New York's Central Park-"love at first stride," as he calls it.
He then becomes the youngest, and skinniest, player on the New York
Bobcats, a Junior B hockey team. Later, after his hockey career at
Harvard doesn't end as planned-with a fat NHL contract-Keenan
decides to play in the minor leagues in Europe, where the glamour
of professional sports is decidedly lacking. Part fish-out-of-water
travelogue, part coming-of-age memoir, Odd Man Rush will capture
the interest of not just hockey fans, but also fans of good
writing. Throughout, Keenan's deep affection for the game shines
through, even as he describes fans who steal players' clothes from
the locker room or toss empty beer cans onto the rink after games.
Abusive fans, cold showers, long bus rides-nothing diminishes his
love for the sport. "Because that's the way it works with me and
hockey. Even when it's horrible, it's wonderful." Skyhorse
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