Jacob Chymanski

Recording audiobooks is not easy.

It's very different than doing your standard broadcasting.

It obviously helps to have a broadcasting background, but it's not easy.

The part that I struggled with...

So it all worked out in the end.

Can you give us an idea of the sorts of stories that people can hear if they pick up the book?

And to give people an idea, like there are lots of stories in here.

It's not like there's one story per chapter because some of these are, you call them like rapid fire chapters where you're cranking out these stories.

There must be 50, 60, 70 stories in here, which makes the book so interesting.

digestible but also you're naming names like it's not anonymous stories from players for the most part like you hear about these actual characters that we know of if you're a big hockey fan so you reached out to a lot of people for these stories you know you combine it with everything that you hear just through your job how did you sort through all of these stories to compile the ones that ended up in the book like surely a lot of things you've heard did not make it into this book

Yeah.

Oh, you're scrapbooking.

The interesting thing with telling these stories is that they're not yours.

That's not easy, telling other people's stories.

But the value of what you're doing with this book is that you're providing all of these players and coaches and hockey people the platform to tell these awesome stories.

So how do you approach that, telling other people's stories?

I mentioned earlier that one of my favorite stories was the one with the Ottawa 67s coach, Kele.

There were a couple chapters about coaches that I felt like there was a particular amount of love put into those chapters.

They were some of the longer ones, but they were just fantastic stories to me.

Definitely some of the better ones.