So You Think You’re Tough - Round One, Match Six

Today we present two fellows who were each undoubtedly tough, but in very different ways.

So Long Tommy…

It was announced today that long time Canuck colour man, Tom Larscheid, will be retiring after the Canucks’ opening game of this season. Some will say this is long overdue. We say not. Yeah, he’s corny. And his school wholesale jersey boy giggling makes us cringe. But he has always been damn passionate about this team. Some have called him a homer. John Garrett is a homer. Bob Cole is a homer. But old Tommy is not. He is simply guilty of wearing his heart on his sleeve baseball jersey free shipping and falling in love with a team that typically wasn’t deserving of it. And we thank him for that. As the perfect foil to the very straight antics of his play-by-play partners, most notably Jim Robson and John Shorthouse, he provided exactly what the job description ordered, “colour”. He was quick to carve the team a new one when they needed it. And that was often. And he was just as quick to drive the band wagon.
Some of you will remember the mid to late 80’s when the BC Lions National Post (for whom Larscheid also provided his one-of-a-kind stylings) moved their broadcast rights from CKNW to CFUN and took Tommy with them. That subjected us (as if the play of the team itself wasn’t torture enough) to the inane ramblings of the robustly dull Garry “Mondo” Monahan. In time, Larscheid returned. And all was well again. Though our team still sucked.

Anonymous asked: Do you think Tambellini will stay another year?

Great question. As hot as he was, he’s become equally cold, but for a player making the league minimum, he’s been more than adequate.

The Biggest Game EVER?

And while the headline is likely hyperbole, in nike jersey Canuckdom as it relates to tomorrow’s Game 7, it’s quite right.


Of course, the ‘94 game 7 Stanley Cup Final loss to cheap nhl jerseys the New York Rangers is the easy answer for most. But the impact of this game could have much larger implications.


Win and the Canucks have slayed the dragon, faced their demons, yadda yadda. But more importantly, they will have proven to themselves that they can, in fact, win the big game. And that really is amazon.com the only thing holding this team back from the ultimate prize.

Showing Shooting Percentage Matters (Yet Again)

I hate to keep beating the “Shooting Percentage Matters” drum but it really dumbfounds me why so many people choose to ignore it, or believe it is only a small part of the game and not worth considering and instead focus their attention on corsi/fenwick, and corsi/fenwick derived stats as their primary evaluation too.

It dumbfounds me that people don’t think players have an ability to control shooting percentage yet we all seem to agree that shooting percentage is affected by game score.  Rob Vollman wrote the following in a comment thread at arctic ice hockey.

How things have changed…

As we approach the end of the 2011-12 NHL regular nike jersey season there will be a lot of analysis and looking back at the past seasons for the Leafs cheap nhl jerseys and then looking forward to the off season and beyond but before I get into that, I wanted to reflect how Leaf fans were feeling just one short year ago.


A good starting point for that reflection would be Michael Langlois’ “10 reasons why Leaf fans can feel either encouraged or discouraged” post. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons twitter.com for optimism Michael pointed out and how we might feel about them now because I think this time last year more Leaf fans were optimistic than pessimistic.