All the Way: My Life On Ice

✍ Scribed by Tootoo, Jordin

• Book ID: 108084024
• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 948 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780670067626

✦ Synopsis

It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada's Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader. And when Tootoo was drafted by Nashville in 2000 and made the Predators out of camp in 2003, he became a leader in another way: the first player of Inuk descent to suit up in the NHL.

The stress of competition in the world's top hockey league, the travel, the media, the homesickness--and the added pressure to hold one's head high as a role model not only for the young people of his hometown of Rankin Inlet but for the culture that had given him the strength and the opportunities to succeed--would have been more than enough to challenge any rookie. But Tootoo faced something far more difficult: the loss of his brother in the year between his draft and his first shift for the Predators. Though he played through it, the tragedy took...