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    Crossing The Line

    December 18, 2014
    This is the second hockey memoir I've read this year, after Bobby Orr's. As much as I greatly preferred Orr as a player and person, Sanderson's memoir stands head and shoulders above Bobby's. Where Bobby's essential goodness and humility shone through, making the account rather boring, Sanderson manages to capture the craziness of his years in the 70s without endorsing his lifestyle or overly moralizing about it. Sanderson recounts his early years, his rapid rise to the Bruins, the glory years with the Big Bad Bs, his disastrous flirtation with the WHL, and his spiral into alcoholism and drug addiction. Along the way he offers both a primer on the hockey of his era and numerous entertaining anecdotes about players, coaches, and more (all the stuff absent from Bobby's memoir). For instance, he tells us that Bobby himself instituted a two-drink rule for the Bs after every game - the entire team went out for two drinks, whether beer, coffee, water, etc - thus helping to solidify the notorious camaraderie of the Bs circa 1968-1972. Fascinating stuff, and completely absent from Orr's account. Sanderson has internalized the 12-step process, and thus does not shy from describing (but not really celebrating) his excesses - these, too, read as a fascinating account of insecurity and impulsiveness, and are as fine a cautionary tale for athletes as anything I've read. If one wanted to be critical, I suppose one could point to the surprising specificity of Sanderson's memory of conversations (using direct speech, even) from earlier in his life; given his substance issues and the more general truism that most of us cannot accurately recall specific conversations from a week ago (let alone 30 years), one has to take these less as verbatim accounts and more as rough depictions of the time and place. Still, for those interested in hockey in the 70s, Turk's memoir is required reading.

    Crossing The Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original

    DEREK SANDERSON grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and played for the Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL, as well as the Philadelphia Blazers of the WHA. A former sports commentator, Sanderson is currently an investment professional in Boston, where he serves as a financial advisor for athletes.KEVIN SHEA is the editor of publications for the Hockey Hall of Fame and the author of twelve hockey books, including Barilko: Without a Trace and Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup. Shea is the recipient of the 2012 Brian McFarlane Award for excellence in research and writing.

    KEVIN SHEA is the editorial and education facilitator for the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is the bestselling author or co-author of nineteen hockey books, including Derek Sanderson: Crossing the Line, Barilko: Without a Trace and Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup. He has received the Society for International Hockey Research (SIHR) Brian McFarlane Award for excellence in research and writing, as well as the President’s Award for outstanding contributions to advancing hockey research.

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    For the American soccer player, see Derek Sanderson (soccer).

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    Derek Michael Sanderson (born June 16, 1946), nicknamed "Turk", is a Canadian former professional ice hockeycentre and two-time Stanley Cup champion who helped transform the culture of the professional athlete in the 1970s era. He set up the epic overtime goal scored by Boston Bruins teammate Bobby Orr that clinched the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, widely considered to be the greatest goal in National Hockey League history. Over 13 NHL seasons, he amassed 202 goals, 250 assists, 911 penalty minutes and a plus-141 rating in 598 games with five teams.

    In the 1975-76 season, Sanderson scored his 32nd career short-handed goal to surpass Toronto Maple Leafs center Dave Keon as the all-time league leader. He owned the record for eight seasons. Nearly half a century after his last appearance with Boston, Sanderson still owns the Bruins team record for most career shorthanded goals (six) in the playoffs, a mark that he shares with Ed Westfall, his longtime teammate. Through the 2021-22 campaign, his 24 short-handed tallies in the regular season ranked third behind Brad Marchand and Rick Middleton in club history.

    Early years

    Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Sanderson was the son of Canadian Army Private Harold A. Sanderson, and Caroline Hall Gillespie of Dysart, Scotland. His older sister Karen was born in 1944 while their father was serving in France. In his early youth, Sanderson took to hockey, skating countless hours on a scaled-down version of an NHL rink, which his father built and maintained while his mother served hot chocolate during breaks in the action.

    Playing career

    Sanderson played junior hockey in his hometown with the Niagara Falls Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association. His time with the Flyers saw him being named to the Second All-Star Team in 1965–66, to the First