{"id":3814,"date":"2011-03-09T21:26:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2011-03-09T21:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:35:44","slug":"season-preview-poutine-machine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/season-preview-poutine-machine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Preview: Poutine Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>On Y Va!<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PoutinePreview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3852  aligncenter\" title=\"Poutine Machine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PoutinePreview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PoutinePreview.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PoutinePreview-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Color:<\/strong> Light Blue<br \/>\n<strong>Year Founded:<\/strong> 2010<br \/>\n<strong>2010 Regular Season Finish:<\/strong> 6-9-0-1 (3rd, Hackett Division; 16th overall)<br \/>\n<strong>2010 Playoff Result:<\/strong> Lost to Fresh Kills in round of 16<br \/>\n<strong>Conference:<\/strong> Schumacher<br \/>\n<strong>Division:<\/strong> MacNeil<br \/>\n<strong>2010 Leading Scorer: <\/strong>Kevin MacDonald, 5 goals<br \/>\n<strong>Team Song:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5wyKqvCg4gs\" target=\"_blank\">Fr\u00e8re Jacques<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Key Additions:<\/strong> Numerous Free Agents<br \/>\n<strong>Key Losses: <\/strong>&#8220;Double J&#8221; Jeff Jewett<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the Mighty Squirrels dissolved after the 2009 season, Patrick &#8220;Sven&#8221; Larsen was one of the few players who did not join the Butchers or retire from BTSH altogether.\u00a0 Instead, he started up a new team primarily of free agents, and managed to fit in time to plan his wedding as well.\u00a0 Larsen was blunt when describing the 2010 season, noting, &#8220;Poutine  had a decent showing for a first year, expansion team and probably  would have done much better if we had a stable situation in nets.&#8221;\u00a0 It bears mentioning that Larsen earned a lot of praise around the league for his team&#8217;s homage to <em>La Belle Provence<\/em>, in both its name and Nordiques-inspired jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen is confident that Poutine Machine will show improvement in 2011.\u00a0 He believes the team&#8217;s goaltending issues of 2010 have passed, noting, &#8220;With  Tim Brown locked in as our starting netminder, we are going to take a  run at Rich Glanzer&#8217;s record and see if we can&#8217;t take a franchise from  founding to the championship in two years.&#8221;\u00a0 That run, however, will have to be made without &#8220;Double J&#8221; Jeff Jewett, one of the cornerstones of the 2010 team.\u00a0 According to Larsen, &#8220;[Jewett] is moving to Los Angeles and while we will miss him, the  waitresses at the EVT will miss him even more. Not only did he regularly  close down the place, but he was also a key witness in an NYPD  investigation.&#8221;\u00a0 Even with the loss of this Canadian, Larsen boasts, &#8220;We&#8217;re  on a mission to have the highest percentage of Canadians of any team in  the league. We may not be any good, but at least, we can all agree on the  superiority of our national healthcare program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entity They Resemble, According to Rich Glanzer:<\/strong> <em>Patrick Swayze<\/em> (manly version from <em>Red Dawn<\/em>).  Many people have often spoke about Patrick &#8220;Sven&#8221; Larsen\u2019s and Patrick &#8220;Sven&#8221; Swayze\u2019s identical appearance, but it&#8217;s more than just their rugged good looks.  They both are leaders of men and women, and they both led undersized and undermanned armies.  Swayze held off the Cubans for a while, and Larsen beat the champion Elves in 2010.  Even though he\u2019s dead, edge Swayze.<br \/>\n<strong>Fast Fact: <\/strong>Patrick Larsen is extremely excited about playing with a guy named Brodie St. John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROSTER<br \/>\n<\/strong>Kara Asuncion<br \/>\nKarey Bakker<br \/>\nMarcus Bonnee<br \/>\nTim Brown<br \/>\nWhitney Garrabant<br \/>\nMike Haas<br \/>\nEthan Hartman<br \/>\nSalman Haq<br \/>\nChelsea Hicks<br \/>\nHillary Keller<br \/>\nDave Kucharsky<br \/>\nPatrick &#8220;Sven&#8221; Larsen (C)<br \/>\nKevin MacDonald<br \/>\nAshish Nagpal<br \/>\nTracy Ng<br \/>\nNatalie Oshin<br \/>\nDave Paglia<br \/>\nAdam Pinto<br \/>\nMary Pratt<br \/>\nJo-Ann Provencher<br \/>\nCaitlin Riley<br \/>\nBrodie St. John<br \/>\nAndrew Therriault<br \/>\nVincent Tracy<br \/>\nLeah Vickers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Y Va! Color: Light Blue Year Founded: 2010 2010 Regular Season Finish: 6-9-0-1 (3rd, Hackett Division; 16th overall) 2010 Playoff Result: Lost to Fresh Kills in round of 16 Conference: Schumacher Division: MacNeil 2010 Leading Scorer: Kevin MacDonald, 5 goals Team Song: Fr\u00e8re Jacques Key Additions: Numerous Free Agents Key Losses: &#8220;Double J&#8221; Jeff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[153,137,18],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-team-previews","tag-2011-season","tag-poutine-machine","tag-team-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814"}],"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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}