A Little Knock Won’t Hurt Ya!, My Life As a Hockey Enforcer

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Title
A Little Knock Won’t Hurt Ya!, My Life As a Hockey Enforcer
Abstract
In the early 1970s, Montreal-born Allan Globensky (b. 1951) was a member of the incomparable Montreal Junior Canadiens, the self-described goon on the Memorial Cup-winning squad. Selected in the NHL amateur draft in 1971, Globensky signed his first professional hockey contract with the Minnesota North Stars, before eventually inking a two-year $50,000 agreement with the Quebec Nordiques of the fledgling World Hockey Association. Succeeding years saw Globensky bounce around between the Nordiques and the club’s WHA minor league affiliate in Lewiston, Maine. In both places, Globensky wanted to polish his hockey skills, but the Nordiques’ organization was more interested in his honing the fists that made him one of the most fearsome on-ice hockey fighters of his era. He is described in this autobiography as a reluctant gladiator who experienced the seamier side of hockey, a world of mayhem and borderline insanity. Globensky maintains that he fought because that’s what he was told to do, and it was the role hockey fans wanted him to play. His body aching and his psyche unravelled, Globensky retired from the game at the end of the 1970s. The book describes what happened to Allan Globensky, the former cult hero, after the cheers of bloodthirsty fans faded away.
Place
Montreal
Publisher
Longbridge Books
Date
2019
# of Pages
181p.
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-928065-16-6
Citation
Globensky, Allan, Rob Kennedy, and Terry Scott. A Little Knock Won’t Hurt Ya!, My Life As a Hockey Enforcer. Montreal: Longbridge Books, 2019.
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