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The following is excerpted from the ESPN review of Leave No Doubt:
If you’re feeling down on your luck these days, and need a little pick-me-up, Mike Babcock’s recently published book called Leave "No Doubt: A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams" is just what the doctor ordered.
The 138-page book, which the Detroit Red Wings head coach authored with the help of longtime friend Rick Larsen, is truly an inspirational read. It’s as much about life as hockey, the two intertwined throughout the book just like Babcock’s philosophies on life and hockey also share the same place in his heart and mind.
The backdrop is the 2010 Winter Olympics, when Babcock and the rest of Team Canada faced the most pressure many of them would ever feel in their entire careers.
"Leave No Doubt" is the credo Babcock chose for Canada’s quest to win Olympic gold on home ice in the most hockey-crazed nation in the world.
And while in this book Babcock makes Canadians feel awfully proud of themselves and their hockey dominance, you don’t have to be Canadian to be inspired from what Babcock is selling here.
His views on life, on commitment, on hard work, apply to everybody.
While I covered Babcock at the 2003 Stanley Cup finals when he led the underdog Anaheim Ducks to a surprise finals appearance, I got to know him better while being one of only two reporters on hand in Prague at the 2004 IIHF world hockey championship, where Babcock coached Canada to gold. I remember flying home from that tournament thinking Babcock was a superstar in the making in the coaching world, and I would be proved right in the subsequent years when he was hired by the powerhouse Red Wings, coached them to a Stanley Cup and then raised the bar even higher at the Vancouver 2010 Games.
Early in the book, you get a glimpse of the pressure in Vancouver, Babcock bringing us late to the third period of the gold-medal game with the United States.
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