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    Making Coco: The Grant Fuhr Story

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    Poster of the movie Making Coco: The Grant Fuhr Story
    2018     Documentary    
    Canada
    1h 30min

    Barely 19, Grant 'Coco' Fuhr became starting goalie for the most exciting team in NHL history. In his mid-30's he played 79 games in an 82-game season to set a league record, then followed that ironman performance by playing 73 the following season on a completely rebuilt knee. During the decade and a half between, he employed his acrobatic style and cat-like reflexes to backstop five Stanley Cup champions and two Canada Cup winners, cementing a reputation as the ultimate "money goalie". He also got himself demoted to the minors for calling the hometown fans jerks, announced his retirement at the age of 26 in an attempt to force a famously hard-nosed general manager to renegotiate a long-term contract, and was suspended for an entire NHL season for conduct deemed "dishonourable and against the welfare of the league" for cocaine use, only to return and redeem himself as one of the game's true greats.

    Grant Fuhr was the first black superstar in hockey. He won 403 regular season NHL games and is a member of the 2003 class of the Hockey Hall of Fame. "Making Coco" is the story of Fuhr's life, on and off the ice.

    Directed byDon Metz
    Written byScot Morison
    CompanyRogers SportsnetRogers SportsnetRogers Sportsnet

    Featuring

    Wayne Gretzky
    Grant Fuhr
    Mark Messier
    Glen Sather
    Theo Fleury
    Jamie Rivers
    Kelly Chase
    Brett Hull
    Martin Brodeur
    Jarome Iginla
    Mike Claiborne
    Rich Winter
    Al MacInnis
    Fred Brathwaite
    Nick Kypreos
    Glenn Anderson
    Paul Coffey
    Jim Peplinski
    Kevin Lowe
    Chris Pronger

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