{"id":187,"date":"2008-04-07T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/2008\/04\/07\/season-preview-what-the-puck\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:53:44","slug":"season-preview-what-the-puck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/season-preview-what-the-puck\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Preview: What The Puck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Get Tags Away From My Keeper<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wolfgangpuck.jpg\" title=\"Wolfgang Puck Soup\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wolfgangpuck.jpg\" title=\"Wolfgang Puck Soup\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wolfgangpuck.jpg\" title=\"Wolfgang Puck Soup\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wolfgangpuck.jpg\" title=\"Wolfgang Puck Soup\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wolfgangpuck.jpg\" title=\"Wolfgang Puck Soup\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wolfgangpuck.jpg\" alt=\"Wolfgang Puck Soup\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color<\/strong>: Orange<br \/>\n<strong>Year Founded<\/strong>: 2002<br \/>\n<strong>2007 Regular Season Finish<\/strong>: 12-5 (4th place)<br \/>\n<strong>2007 Playoff Result<\/strong>: Lost to Corlears Hookers in semifinals<br \/>\n<strong>Key Additions<\/strong>: Ant \u201cFather Time\u201d Ventolieri (Pork Fried Rice), Jenny Petersen (Pork Fried Rice)<br \/>\n<strong>Key Losses<\/strong>: Erica Lee (LBS)<br \/>\n<strong>Fan Base<\/strong>: Canada<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One word has\u00a0plagued What The Puck all winter: Shootout.\u00a0 Their quest for a second consecutive championship ended suddenly in the semifinals when they could not convert on any of their four shootout attempts.\u00a0 In an effort to improve shootout efficiency, Coach\/Captain Larry \u201cMad Dog\u201d Zimmer made a huge splash in the free agent market, signing the extremely overrated Ant \u201cFather Time\u201d Ventolieri to a one year personal services contract.\u00a0 The contract would have been longer, but Zimmer was concerned about Ventolieri\u2019s fragile hip (in addition to other age-related maladies).\u00a0 Of course, all of their worries could be overblown, as they still have the offensive firepower of Mike \u201cThe X-Factor\u201d Woodsworth, Corey \u201cChongo\u201d Winters, Darrell \u201cAccurate Bob\u201d Hartman, Tom MacDonald, and Michelle Doucet, which they will need to overcome the goaltending deficiencies of Roderick \u201cGuy LeDouche\u201d Cruz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rapper They Closely Resemble:<\/strong> Dr. Dre.\u00a0 Sure, they&#8217;re a tad more familly friendly these days, but they always have been and always will be one of the top acts in the business.<br \/>\n<strong>Fast Fact:<\/strong> Brian Vroom is an avid stamp collector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROSTER<br \/>\n<\/strong>Roderick &#8220;Guy LeDouche&#8221; Cruz (G)<br \/>\nMichelle Doucet<br \/>\nCeline Dujeux<br \/>\nAmy Farley<br \/>\nJen Hale<br \/>\nDarrell &#8220;Accurate Bob&#8221; Hartman<br \/>\nKevin Lutsky<br \/>\nTom MacDonald<br \/>\nJenny Petersen<br \/>\nSusanna Tenney<br \/>\nAnt &#8220;Father Time&#8221; Ventolieri<br \/>\nBrian Vroom<br \/>\nLauren Weitman<br \/>\nCorey &#8220;Chongo&#8221; Winters<br \/>\nMike &#8220;The X-Factor&#8221; Woodsworth<br \/>\nLarry &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Zimmer (C)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Tags Away From My Keeper &nbsp; Color: Orange Year Founded: 2002 2007 Regular Season Finish: 12-5 (4th place) 2007 Playoff Result: Lost to Corlears Hookers in semifinals Key Additions: Ant \u201cFather Time\u201d Ventolieri (Pork Fried Rice), Jenny Petersen (Pork Fried Rice) Key Losses: Erica Lee (LBS) Fan Base: Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10,18,8],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-team-previews","tag-2008-season","tag-team-previews","tag-what-the-puck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}