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"«Yuki» — — the best book on sports topics among all that have come into my hands over the past half dozen years… This is a story about the cruel and dangerous team game of the 40s and 50s50s of the last century, when appearing on the field in a protective mask meant indelible shame, when hockey goalkeepers often left the arena on a hospital stretcher."
Max Kidruk, writer

"This story teaches, motivates and inspires. And not only in sports."
Konstantin Simchuk, goalkeeper of the Ukrainian national team, international master of sports

This book is about the greatest goalkeeper in the history of hockey, a Ukrainian by birth, Taras Savchuk, a man of 400 scars, as he was called by the newspapers of the time. His name is in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and no one has been able to break his record of 103 shutouts in over forty years. Taras Savchuk's life is a story about how a dream and love are stronger than congenital diseases that are incompatible with sports, daily terrible injuries and the risk of never going out on the ice again. Where did he get the strength to play hockey and be the best at it throughout his career? Why was he unbearable to communicate with? What was he hiding from the world? Who did he long for all his life and to whom did he dedicate his victories?

About the author:

Oleksandra Yavorivska holds a Master's degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She worked on television for over ten years, first as a journalist and then as a news presenter. The story of the Ukrainian-born hockey player Terry Savchuk was conceived as a short story for her two children to read at home. But the more facts from the life of this incredible athlete were revealed to the author, the more magnificent his story became, and eventually grew into a book.