{"id":168,"date":"2008-04-03T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T12:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/2008\/04\/03\/season-preview-tuques\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T21:59:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T02:59:57","slug":"season-preview-tuques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/season-preview-tuques\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Preview: Tuques"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>No Matt, No Spedeleri, Just Minkus<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/davekissing.jpg\" title=\"davekissing.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/davekissing.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Kissing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/h4>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Color<\/strong>: Yellow\/Red<br \/>\n<strong>Year Founded<\/strong>: 2002<br \/>\n<strong>2007 Regular Season Finish<\/strong>: 7-10 (13th place)<br \/>\n<strong>2007 Playoff Result<\/strong>: Lost to What The Puck in first round<br \/>\n<strong>Key Additions:<\/strong> Christine Zalocha (Sabbatical)<br \/>\n<strong>Key Losses:<\/strong> Jill (Unicorns), Janica \u201cTussin\u201d Lee (Bad Touch)<br \/>\n<strong>Fan Base<\/strong>: Hazzard County and the rest of the six county area<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Tuques lost a sizable chunk of their 2006 roster to the formation of the Corlears Hookers and stumbled out of the gate in 2007, losing five of their first six games.\u00a0 However, there is a silver lining to last year\u2019s cloud, as the Tuques went 6-5 after their slow start.\u00a0 Included in that stretch were upset wins against the eventual champion Dark Rainbows, perennial power Fresh Kills, and talent laden Pork Fried Rice.\u00a0 If the Tuques can maintain the momentum of those wins, as well as adapt to the eccentricities of (goalie) Minkus, they could be this year\u2019s sleeper team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rapper They Closely Resemble<\/strong>: <em>Birdman<\/em>.\u00a0 Are these names really supposed to intimidate us?<br \/>\n<strong>Fast Fact<\/strong>: Lisa Harrington thinks there is too much sand in the desert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROSTER<br \/>\n<\/strong>Alfredo Bequillard<br \/>\nRui Domingues<br \/>\nDeep Dutta<br \/>\nDaphne Feng<br \/>\nAndrea Grande-Capone<br \/>\nLisa Harrington<br \/>\nCaroline Johnston<br \/>\nDean Keyworth<br \/>\nDavid Ladanyi (C)<br \/>\nAlfred Liu (C)<br \/>\nZoe Markwick<br \/>\nMinkus (G)<br \/>\nBill Monahan<br \/>\nSarah Moore<br \/>\nKen Rosenkrantz<br \/>\nFrank Russo<br \/>\nScott Sampson<br \/>\nRebecca Vollmer<br \/>\nGabe Wilson<br \/>\nPeter Wilson<br \/>\nChristine Zalocha\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Matt, No Spedeleri, Just Minkus Color: Yellow\/Red Year Founded: 2002 2007 Regular Season Finish: 7-10 (13th place) 2007 Playoff Result: Lost to What The Puck in first round Key Additions: Christine Zalocha (Sabbatical) Key Losses: Jill (Unicorns), Janica \u201cTussin\u201d Lee (Bad Touch) Fan Base: Hazzard County and the rest of the six county area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10,18,11],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-team-previews","tag-2008-season","tag-team-previews","tag-tuques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}