There's no way to overstate the significance of having Mike Farber write the forward to your upcoming book. I was lucky enough to have Jack Nicklaus (or more likely Jack's assistant, a former newspaper colleague of mine named Scott Tolley) write mine. In my estimation Mike is to hockey writing almost what Jack was to golf. When the Panthers came to a city he happened to be in we would get together for lunch on game days; he had a keen interest in Mike Keenan and I happened to have covered him as both coach and GM. And when we were covering Stanley Cup Finals together he was responsible for what I still consider a great honor: getting an invite to dinner with the Canadian scribes. Brilliant but humble - the rarest of combinations.
There's no way to overstate the significance of having Mike Farber write the forward to your upcoming book. I was lucky enough to have Jack Nicklaus (or more likely Jack's assistant, a former newspaper colleague of mine named Scott Tolley) write mine. In my estimation Mike is to hockey writing almost what Jack was to golf. When the Panthers came to a city he happened to be in we would get together for lunch on game days; he had a keen interest in Mike Keenan and I happened to have covered him as both coach and GM. And when we were covering Stanley Cup Finals together he was responsible for what I still consider a great honor: getting an invite to dinner with the Canadian scribes. Brilliant but humble - the rarest of combinations.