{"id":2259,"date":"2010-03-27T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2010-04-10T22:55:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T03:55:58","slug":"season-preview-tuques-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/season-preview-tuques-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Preview: Tuques"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuques hockey.<\/h4>\n

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Color:<\/strong> Yellow\/Red
\nYear Founded:<\/strong> 2002
\n2009 Regular Season Finish:<\/strong> 7-13-0-1 (13th place)
\n2009 Playoff Result:<\/strong> Lost to Corlears Hookers in first round
\nConference:<\/strong> Schumacher
\nDivision:<\/strong> Donohue
\nHome Arena:<\/strong> Tuques Arena
\n2009 Leading Scorer: <\/strong>Denis Miciletto, 17 goals
\nKey Additions:<\/strong> Kevin Prestia (free agency), Kevin Au (Cobra Kai)
\nKey Losses: <\/strong>Minkus (Poutine Machine), Lisa Harrington (What The Puck)<\/p>\n

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While the Tuques actually regressed slightly in 2009, both in record and overall position in the standings, there were two major positives for the team to build on for 2010.<\/p>\n

The first positive was the success of\u00a0Tuques captain David Ladanyi’s “new superstar initiative”.\u00a0 Although unveiled with little fanfare, the initiative provided ample playing time for rookies Denis Miciletto, Shafiq “Off Black” Perry, and Adam Robertson, who combined for 33 of the team’s 60 goals.\u00a0 Pleased with this success, Ladanyi has pledged to continue the initative this season with the addition of Kevin Prestia.<\/p>\n

The second positive was the Tuques’ embrace of a committed marketing effort.\u00a0 The “Tuques hockey.” campaign began slowly, but picked up steam later in the season, and even featured a brief commercial with then starting goalie Minkus.\u00a0 While Minkus has moved on to Poutine Machine, the “Tuques hockey.” marketing campaign for 2010\u00a0is already in full swing.\u00a0 Miciletto and Prestia have already been featured in a new commercial where Prestia displays his expansive knowledge of his new team.\u00a0 Other commercials that may be\u00a0released later in the season include The Peter Wilson explaining the significance of his nickname, Perry discussing the color schemes of the team’s home and away shirts, and a blooper reel set to “Yakety Sax” (made famous by Benny Hill).<\/p>\n

Professional Wrestler They Closely Resemble:<\/strong> Drew McIntyre<\/a><\/em>. The embodiment of the new superstar initiative, they are already winning big matchups and will be in the limelight for a while.
\nFast Fact:<\/strong> For Lent, Bill Monahan gave up hugging other people, but he caved in on the second day.<\/p>\n

ROSTER<\/strong>
\nKevin Au
\nDeep Dutta
\nBrian Ferry
\nJonathan Fidge
\nAndrea Grande-Capone
\nCaroline Johnston
\nDiane Johnston
\nDean Keyworth
\nAmanda Kotler
\nDavid Ladanyi (C)
\nAlfred Liu
\nDenis Miciletto
\nBill Monahan
\nShafiq “Off Black” Perry
\nKevin Prestia
\nAdam Robertson
\nScott Sampson
\nMark Wang
\nGabe Wilson
\nThe Peter Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuques hockey. Color: Yellow\/Red Year Founded: 2002 2009 Regular Season Finish: 7-13-0-1 (13th place) 2009 Playoff Result: Lost to Corlears Hookers in first round Conference: Schumacher Division: Donohue Home Arena: Tuques Arena 2009 Leading Scorer: Denis Miciletto, 17 goals Key Additions: Kevin Prestia (free agency), Kevin Au (Cobra Kai) Key Losses: Minkus (Poutine Machine), Lisa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[132,18,11],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-team-previews","tag-2010-season","tag-team-previews","tag-tuques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259"}],"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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}