The New York Rangers headed into the 2021-22 regular NHL season with a head coach determined to make the Blueshirts a Stanley Cup contender. That coach was Gerard "Turk" Gallant.

The Prince Edward Island-born Turk Gallant has had an extraordinary hockey career. He led Team Canada to a gold medal at the IIHF World Championship in Riga, Latvia, in 2021. Before that, in 2017-18, he led the Vegas Golden Knights, in their inaugural season, to the Stanley Cup finals. That year, he also won the Jack Adams Award, presented annually by the NHL Broadcasters Association "to the NHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success." Despite this incredible achievement, Turk was fired from the Golden Knights. Similarly, Turk had been fired by the Florida Panthers in 2016, despite having led that team to a franchise record in number of points and been a finalist for the Jack Adams Award that year, leaving many fans scratching their heads.

NY Rangers GM Chris Drury saw Turk's experience as an asset. With his nine years of head coaching in the NHL, Turk was hired to lead the Rangers' young team to new heights throughout the 2021-22 season. And that he did. Under Turk's leadership, the Rangers went from young underdogs to the Stanley Cup playoffs!

Fred MacDonald was born and raised in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. An athlete throughout his life, he was selected to the Canadian national junior baseball team in 1965. In addition to being a schoolteacher, Fred wrote a Saturday feature covering Island sports for the Charlottetown Guardian, for almost fifty years, and was a popular TV broadcaster with CBC Charlottetown, for nearly a decade. His first literary work recounts 100 years of Maritime harness racing and was published by the Charlottetown Guardian in 2001. A Tale of Two Fiddlers was released in 2021 by Acorn Press Canada. Fred won the PEI Heritage Award in 2001 and the Charlottetown Heritage Award in 2021. He and his wife Gail co-author Atlantic Post Calls, a journal that covers harness racing in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Ontario. They live in Kingston, Prince Edward Island.

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Glenna Jenkins is a writer and editor whose Prince Edward Island roots date back to the early 1800s. Although she comes from a hockey family, she doesn’t claim to have athletic abilities aside from having completed several marathons, triathlons, and cycling gran fondos, and a recent ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Her literary work includes Somewhere I Belong, historical fiction published by Acorn Press Canada and listed in Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2016, and a number of short stories published in anthologies by Acorn Press Canada and MacIntyre Purcell Publishing. In 2016, she won the Atlantic Canada writing competition for memoir. She is presently completing her second novel, a sequel to Somewhere I Belong. She lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, with her husband, John.

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