First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61

About the Authors
First Nation Non-Fiction Unit
Playing With Fire
The Highest Highs and Lowest Lows of Theo Fleury
by Theoren Fleury
and Kirstie McLellan Day
Theoren ―Theo‖ Fleury won a World Junior title, a Turner Cup, a Stanley Cup as a rookie
with the Calgary Flames and later a Canada Cup and an Olympic gold medal. A former player
with the Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks, he now lives in
Calgary, where he is a motivational speaker and an investment representative with a land
development company. Visit him online online here: www.theofleury14.com.
Kirstie McLellan Day has written five other books, including the #1 bestselling memoir
of Theo Fleury, Playing with Fire, and the bestselling memoir of Bob Probert, Tough Guy, as
well as Above and Beyond, a biography of cable magnate JR Shaw, Under the Mat, a memoir
with Diana Hart of the Hart wrestling family, and No Remorse, a true-crime story. The mother of
five lives with her husband, broadcaster Larry Day, in Calgary, Alberta.
About the Text
Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a game played by giants. A star in junior
hockey, he became an integral part of the Calgary Flames’ Stanley Cup win in 1989. Fleury’s
talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off
the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal–winning
men’s hockey team at the 2002 Olympics.
The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the playoffs, and when he signed with the
New York Rangers, he was a kid in a candy store. After one season of his next multi-milliondollar
deal, this time with the Chicago Blackhawks, Fleury suddenly called it quits and wouldn’t
explain why.
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