Washington Capitals Coach Bruce Boudreau has a book coming out this week called "Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer" (co-written by hockey writer Tim Leone), and it captures the quirky career ("Slap Shot!") and Cinderella rise of the jovial skipper.

Japers' Rink excepted several chapters from the book during the summer, and they ranged from the expectedly self-deprecating to the near-tragic, as Boudreau recalled nearly being on one of the planes that went down on 9-11.

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