{"id":20001,"date":"2019-03-20T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=20001"},"modified":"2019-03-20T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:43:09","slug":"btsh-hall-of-fame-gil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/btsh-hall-of-fame-gil\/","title":{"rendered":"BTSH Hall of Fame &#8211; Gil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>by Richiehero<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a tear in my eye I write this Hall of Fame profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmingdale NY, 1999: Gil Walsh and I are playing on Triumph (in my mens league!). Our goalie is late and we start the game with no goalie. We see him arrive and he&#8217;s ready to play, so I tell my team to hand pass it so we get a whistle. My idiot teammates don&#8217;t listen and I&#8217;m agitated. Finally Walsh gets the ball and I tell him to hand pass it to me. Walsh hand passes it into our net. Gil screams. Not at Walsh. &#8220;RICHIE!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet I still love this man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rich-love-gil.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rich-love-gil.png 517w, https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rich-love-gil-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Before this becomes tl;dr read this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>True things you didn&#8217;t know about Gil:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He&#8217;s 56 years old.<\/li><li>He was born in Cuba.<\/li><li>He grew up salsa dancing and is excellent at it.<\/li><li>His daughter is a five time World Champion for Irish Dancing.  She is considered the decorated American in the history of Irish Dancing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now onto the hockey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I had to pick the most amazing achievement in BTSH history, it would be Gil&#8217;s 2015 season, where 8 games in the only two players to score for the Elves were Gil and Gil&#8217;s son. Gil ended up winning the scoring title as a 53-year-old man with horrible hockey players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course Gil&#8217;s biggest goal wasn&#8217;t during regulation or overtime, it was in 2010 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cL3X554IzLQ\">this goal<\/a>, (and 3 Shaun d. saves) brought the Elves to their only final appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gil&#8217;s likes include: Gil, Gil&#8217;s Son, Gil&#8217;s Son&#8217;s Dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gil&#8217;s dislikes include, Zack T. from the Demons (Yes you do), Emails from Chadwick,&nbsp; admitting some of my game strategies actually work, and the defensive zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gil-hustling-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20004\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gil-hustling-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gil-hustling-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gil-hustling-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption> <br \/>Gil hustling back on D <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While I&#8217;ve hit people for hitting Gil, he&#8217;s not perfect. I feel your pain Gabe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gabe-Gil-comment-love.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gabe-Gil-comment-love.png 518w, https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Gabe-Gil-comment-love-300x46.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richiehero With a tear in my eye I write this Hall of Fame profile. Farmingdale NY, 1999: Gil Walsh and I are playing on Triumph (in my mens league!). Our goalie is late and we start the game with no goalie. We see him arrive and he&#8217;s ready to play, so I tell my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-league-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001"}],"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\/6355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20819,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions\/20819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}