Hockey Confidential by Bob McKenzie

Author:Bob McKenzie [McKenzie, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781443418348
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2014-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

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You may be wondering what ever became of Pierre Dupuis.

His story was told as part of a book, Selling the Dream: How Hockey Parents and Their Kids Are Paying the Price for Our National Obsession, by Ken Campbell, with Jim Parcells, which was published in 2013.

Campbell wrote that, after Dupuis quit junior hockey, he took a job as a hydro lineman in northern Ontario, getting married and raising a family, but also struggling for a time with what might have been—what never was—for him in hockey.

But he was able to let go of his resentment. One night, he packed his hockey bag, and off he went to the local arena.

Campbell wrote:

It wasn’t long before Dupuis was once again leaving people amazed with his skills—on a much smaller stage. Playing against huffing and puffing recreational players whose best days had passed them by, Dupuis was once again filling the net and gaining legions of fans. People from town—and even from other small towns nearby—flocked to the arena to watch him play. Kids asked for autographs.

“Pierre became the little superstar all over again,” [wife] Nicole Dupuis said. “He was doing what he loved to do and I saw that twinkle in his eye like it was when he was younger. Then Pierre was happy. He realized, ‘You know what? I’ve got my kids coming to see me and the kids at school were talking about Pierre Dupuis.’ It was fun because people would come from all over to watch him play. It came back to what it was.”

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