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In Playing with Fire, now in trade paperback, Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player, and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark personal issues began to surface and drinking, drugs, gambling, and girls ultimately derailed his Hall of Fame-caliber career. Fleury shares all in this raw, captivating and honest look at the previously untold story of one of the game's greatest heroes.

I hope a lot of what he talked about causes people to do more to help people and hockey players with substance abuse and sexual abuse.

Name: matt
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Could have been so much more
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2015
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book, but for me it was a disappointment. Throughout the entire book he would brag about how great he was and he was the sole reason for a team's success and the only reason fans watched. If you didn't follow hockey much, you'd think you were reading about one of the top 5 players to ever play the game. He was a good player, but he isn't even in the same conversation as the all time greats.

He also seems to use this book as a platform to call out people he didn't like. There were several times where he goes out of his way to take a shot at a guy, and these don't usually contribute anything to the story. He seems to think that they only way a person is worth anything, is if they played on a championship winning team in their pro career. He has an entire chapter that is nothing more than a long rant about how coaches have no right to coach or tell players what to do unless they also had a long pro career. He even goes as far as saying star players shouldn't ever have to listen to coaches.

With his troubled childhood and off ice problems, I was looking forward to an interesting read. This book did give some good insight, but his overall arrogant attitude and constantly playing the victim grow tiring. I was glad to see him take some responsibility in the last chapter, and I hope he continues down a good path.

Name: Roseanne E. Freese
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Journey Through the Darkness
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2012
Review: Like one of the ghostly masks invented by the goalie Jacques Plante, the face of Theo Fleury, star forward and Stanley Cup winner of the Calgary Flames, floats on the front cover of his stunning and moving autobiography full of scars, shadows, and dust. Unlike Jacques, the 5'6", 150-pound right wing faced more than pucks flung by 230-pound demons. In this superb piece of hockey writing, Theo Fleury, with this co-author Kirstie McLellan Day, reveals to the world the dreams, suffering, and glories of his life. I loved this book - reading it three times for its insights into the wild and raunchy world of hockey, its reflections on the life broken by abuse and addiction, and for the sheer rhythm of its "thrill of victory and agony of defeat."

Theo came from Cree-Quebecoise (Métis) stock and grew up in the Canadian bush town of Russell, Manitoba. His first gear bag was an old pillowcase and he did not own a new pair of skates until he was a teenager. Yet, from the age of 5 he dreamt every day of playing in The Show, the National Hockey League. Fleury, however, was also born under a dark star. Theo's dad, a hockey player injured in his prime, had turned to alcohol and his mom found consolation in Valium and distraction in the doomsday dreams of the Jehovah's Witnesses. When a prominent coach, Graham James, who would later win a "Mr. Hockey" trophy from the Canadian junior leagues, took interest in him at the age of 13, young Theo thought that his dream of making the NHL would come true.

Unfortunately, Theo would have to pay a price that no child should ever have to pay. For three long years his coach molested him. Theo knew well that if he dared speak a word, his future would be forfeited, and worse, he and not James, would be blamed. His parents did not bother to go to his games or see him in the hospital after a near-death accident on the ice when he was 12, so why would he expect better of the world? Indeed, the Montreal Gazette, in reporting James' guilty plea to abuse against Fleury and one other victim on December 7, 2011 even went so far to say that Fleury had "enabled" his coach. Child survivors of sexual abuse are still waiting for the Gazette to apologize.

Helpless, Theo acquiesced to the shame and fear, but the self-disgust and suffering would exact its own toll. Theo writes, "The most influential adult in my life at the time was telling me that what I thought was wrong was right. I no longer had faith in myself or my own judgment. And when you come down to it, that's all a person has. Once its gone, how do you get it back?" (Page 27) As he was molested in empty hotel rooms, so Theo would fear the dark, the silence, and being alone. He would seek any means he could to fill the hole in his soul.

Fortunately for the world, Theo also had a spark and that spark would not be put out.

As candid about his fears and suffering as he is about the joys of lacing up, Theo with pure panache and great gusto regales the reader with tale after tale of the men he played with and played against. Happy to document that the 1989 Stanley Cup was one of the best things he ever slept with, Theo with passion and verve will happily tell you of his miracle goals, broken sticks, and manic plays that were the stuff of his success, including a gold medal for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Nicknamed "The Weasel," Theo was ready to take on everyone, be it Marty McSorley the protector, Kerry Fraser the referee, Don Cherry the host of Hockey Night in Canada, or even Doug Risebrough, the General Manager of the Flames. He absolutely had no respect for men who did not respect the game and the men who played it. Of Sean Avery he writes, "In eight years in the NHL, he's changed teams four times...That's because he's a clown - about as popular in the dressing room as a case of the crabs." (Pages 272-273) His stories are rolling on the floor hilarious. When Blackhawks' coach Mike Keenan, who had recently been convicted of a DUI, chirped at Theo from the bench, Theo from the face-off circle chirped back, "Hey Mike, do you need my driver's license to get home?" (Page 100) Theo the strategist had no respect for "defensive systems" coaches but instead [he] "like[s] the Crosbys, Ovechkins, and Kovalchuks of the world, because no matter what the coach tells them, they are going to play their way." (Page 103) After all, "If I have possession of the puck, why would I want to give it up?" (Page 103)

Theo is also generous in his praise. For every athlete and manager that he resented, there are at least 10 times as many men that he respected. He admired anyone who played hard, used his head, or stuck up for his mates. In addition to the hundreds of players he mentions in his book, he shows that he is a man of strategy and grit. And though over the years his drunken rages and gambling binges would cause him to lose literally millions of dollars and receive multiple game suspensions, his friends were many and they stuck by him, including oil businessman Chuck Matson, Flames Coach Brian Suter, and the Great One himself, Wayne Gretzky.

However, no matter how high in the hockey world would Theo rise, he could not get away from the abuse and neglect of his childhood. Though Theo has some choice words for the culture of alcohol and denial in the NHL, he would also be the first to take responsibility for his own alcoholism, addiction to cocaine, gambling, and strippers. For all the finesse and control he exhibited on the rink, his personal life was a never ending drama of broken marriages, drinking binges, and gambling parties that would escalate in intensity and duration. Skating back and forth between the nets of recovery and relapse, it took years of effort before Theo could face the ghosts of his past and the ghosts of his own creation.

He found lasting sobriety in 2005 and by publishing his book in 2009, the Government of Canada had no choice but to bring Graham James to trial. The boy had now become the man. "If you want your life back, you cannot hand it over to the memory and let the perpetrator steal your future." (Page 312) Fortunately for Fleury, his story does not end there. James, had already been found guilty in 1997 for his abuse of Sheldon Kennedy, Fleury's teenage teammate. Kennedy, whose depression had brought his career to an end in the mid `90s, had reached his Rubicon and came forward. James served only three years in jail for the Kennedy 1997 conviction before strangely receiving a pardon from the Government of Canada. As of this writing (New Year's Day 2012) James will be sentenced in Winnipeg for his crimes against Fleury and another victim on February 22, 2012.

For those of you who love hockey, for those of you who are troubled by the Penn State Sandusky scandal, and for those of you who wish to believe that the light is greater than the darkness, read this book. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will be richly rewarded for getting to know this wonderful and courageous human being. Theo Fleury, may you always skate in beauty. Skennen'Kowa - Go in Peace.

Name: Pamela Naylor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A tale of hockey and sobriety
Date: Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2011
Review: We all knew Theo was one of the bravest hockey players ever, but honestly I had no idea how true that was/is. How incredibly brave he is to come clean and tell the whole story. How many books only tell one side? I appreciated the candidness of this book because we all make mistakes. Nobody's life is perfect. We all have skeletons in our closets and some deal with and/or hide them better than others. Now granted this is on an extreme level, but honestly not a lot of us have the opportunities and money that Theo has seen. So I'm sure in his situation I would have done at least half of that stuff. Let's get real!

In a family of alcoholics, I have seen a lot of these same struggles. What is truly amazing is watching a person turn it around and stop the cycle of destruction. It makes me so proud!

So I could really relate to Theo. I remember watching The Cup and The Goal and I am still rooting for him. Good luck in life Fleury! Stay sober, please! We love you!

Name: Casey Mounteer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Truth is Power
Date: Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020
Review: I met Theo when he played in SLC & followed his whole career. I had a couple decent talks with him while he was here with his young wife Shannon & baby Josh. Drugs have caused damage to some of my family members as well. Many may think the book glorifies sex & drugs, or that is Theo boasting. To them I say, if he would not have told his whole truth the book would have been meaningless. Both for Theo & for those reading to understand him, or in hopes of helping themselves. Truth is power & getting to the truth & owning it isn't always a pretty path, but you cant ever become anything better without it. Thank you for your raw truth & vulnerability you spoke Theo. Casey Mounteer