Hockey players, those famous man’s wearing the colorful sweater of our favorite’s teams! People think that they know all about them, their charts, their public life, the great ones, the worse etc. But, do their story are known as well as they pretend? The answer is that for most of them people don’t, that’s why Theoren Fleury wrote is book about his life and his struggles. Fleury release his book ‘’Playing with fire” in 2009 and his co-author Kirstie Mclellan Day adapted his book into a play “Playing with fire: The Theo Fleury story” in 2017. This play directed by Ron Jenkins and performed by Shaun Smyth was presented at the Centaur Theatre on October 3 to 29 2017. Playing with fire isn’t just a title, it describes the whole lifestyle of Theo.
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For example, his lifestyle had leaded him to the lost of his own family. In fact, his first wife Channon and him got divorced consequently to his attitude and he lost contact with his son. Same pattern repeated for is second wife Veronica and the stripper he was going out with. People have told him to stop many time and he put those relations at risk by continuing the partying; he could have end all alone. Also, Fleury’s compulsive use of alcohol and drugs has put his career on the line a couple of time as well. The NHL submitted him to many tests and psychological programs to help him. They wanted him to get back on the track, but he cheated and chose the risky way. Overall, Fleury has been risking a lot of aspects in his life to entertain de lifestyle that he thought he …show more content…
First, he was a turbulent kid and he was looking for a way to express his anger. Back in that time, he stood up for his mother against his father. For a child, that’s playing with fire because confronting the authority in place such as Fleury’s alcoholic father is risky. Above all, he has been playing with fire a long time maintaining his relation with his abusing coach Graham James. Of course he’s not to blame for that but it’s still unhealthy emotionally and psychotically for him. He put himself at risk, meaning that he had to carry this huge secret. To resume, having a risky behavior didn’t come from the hockey career but more from his childhood.
Additionally, we can take a look further that what the expression “playing with fire” mean and see how his career is the reflection of those three words. Fire is what describe the best how Fleury played hockey; he played with the sacred fire. He was at his place on the ice and he was dynamic and giving everything he had at each game. Playing with fire is also a wink to the Calgary’s Flames hockey team where Theo Fleury not only started his career but also ended it. This aspect is wrapping up everything up together about
For example, his lifestyle had leaded him to the lost of his own family. In fact, his first wife Channon and him got divorced consequently to his attitude and he lost contact with his son. Same pattern repeated for is second wife Veronica and the stripper he was going out with. People have told him to stop many time and he put those relations at risk by continuing the partying; he could have end all alone. Also, Fleury’s compulsive use of alcohol and drugs has put his career on the line a couple of time as well. The NHL submitted him to many tests and psychological programs to help him. They wanted him to get back on the track, but he cheated and chose the risky way. Overall, Fleury has been risking a lot of aspects in his life to entertain de lifestyle that he thought he …show more content…
First, he was a turbulent kid and he was looking for a way to express his anger. Back in that time, he stood up for his mother against his father. For a child, that’s playing with fire because confronting the authority in place such as Fleury’s alcoholic father is risky. Above all, he has been playing with fire a long time maintaining his relation with his abusing coach Graham James. Of course he’s not to blame for that but it’s still unhealthy emotionally and psychotically for him. He put himself at risk, meaning that he had to carry this huge secret. To resume, having a risky behavior didn’t come from the hockey career but more from his childhood.
Additionally, we can take a look further that what the expression “playing with fire” mean and see how his career is the reflection of those three words. Fire is what describe the best how Fleury played hockey; he played with the sacred fire. He was at his place on the ice and he was dynamic and giving everything he had at each game. Playing with fire is also a wink to the Calgary’s Flames hockey team where Theo Fleury not only started his career but also ended it. This aspect is wrapping up everything up together about