James Duthie

Yeah, I think you're really right, first of all.

I don't... Because a coach, A, has usually played before, maybe not at the NHL level.

You know, John Cooper, probably the most successful coach in hockey right now, who tells a great story in my first book, Beauties, one of my favorite stories in the book.

You know, he was, you know, played, but was sort of a failed hockey player who became a lawyer, who then decided to take up coaching and become a coach.

So you have this...

really smart guy, uh, who's also got a whole lifetime in hockey.

And I think they have an ability to, uh, you know, they've just, they've been through the wars enough.

So I think that's what I could do a beauties book that was just coaches stories.

Okay.

Because, uh, yeah, because I, I think you're right.

I think they just, uh,

They get it.

They're older, first of all.

It's harder, you know, usually if you're talking to a younger, a 22-year-old rookie, they might not have been, you know... And I like to have mixes of those in the books.

There's a Macklin Celebrini chapter in the book, who's probably the greatest young superstar in hockey now.

There's a story about Conor Bedard that appears in another story.

I like to have... I want the young guns in my book, but they don't have the experience of...

of the veterans or, or coaches ideally who, who've just, you know, part of it is just, they've been around so long that they've seen it all and that what makes their stories the best.

But I, I'm like you, I'm, I'm completely fascinated by them.

It's, when they take a job, it completely takes over their life.