Sam Jefferies is a freelance writer and communications specialist and his first book is Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth. Credit The University of Wisconsin Press for publication.
It’s a book that chronicles the college hockey and the rise of hockey in the South. And at the heart of it is the Geoffrion familly whose bloodline in hockey goes back to the formation of the slapshot.
Blake Geoffrion had the pressure to keep the generational NHL lineage alive. And he did, though his career was cut short by a devastating head injury.
This is a story of the weight of that legacy.
We dive into Sam’s inspirations and the piece he loves to read at least once per year.
“That’s definitely part of my writing process, too, is I would really to get things going would go back and look at some of the standout pieces for me, like in the history of sports journalism, and that’s one of them where I could go and I could read three paragraphs and just be keyed to the moon. And then sit in front of the laptop and start absolutely hammering out screed.”
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