Tuques hockey<\/a>, Ladanyi modified the name to La Famiglia to better reflect his teammates’ ethnic roots (or at least, Denis Miciletto’s).\u00a0 He notes, “I think the renaming was a success.\u00a0 Everyone likes it (especially the Italian-Americans in the league).\u00a0 Also, now I don’t have to explain what a tuque is to non-Canadians.”<\/p>\nAlthough the name change was an immediate success off the court, as was evidenced by skyrocketing merchandise sales (mostly of Shafiq “Off Black” Perry jerseys), it took the team several weeks to become acclimated in its gameplay.\u00a0 La Famiglia started with a record of 2-7 before running off a seven-game win streak to close the regular season.\u00a0 Ladanyi explains, “As far as our performance last year, we had a number of new players, and it took us about half the season to get our team chemistry right. We’re looking to carry the form we found at the end of 2010 into 2011.”<\/p>\n
To ensure that the winning continues, La Famiglia has established the “Old Superstar<\/del> Player Initiative” and added the self-proclaimed 2009 assists leader, Ant “Father Time” Ventolieri.\u00a0 Ladanyi is well known in league circles for his romanticism of the “Golden Age” of BTSH, and Ventolieri is definitely the type of throwback player that he loves: someone who reminds us all of the “good old days,” when the league was bastion of virtue, sportsmanship, and small nets.\u00a0 Ventolieri will also add to the Italian make-up of the team, be a solid contributor on the blue line, and has several great yarns from his youth when Richard Nixon was in the oval office and Bobby Orr was on the Bruins.<\/p>\nEntity They Resemble, According to Rich Glanzer:<\/strong> Puff Daddy<\/em>. No matter how many times Sean Combs changes his name, he\u2019ll always be Puff Daddy to me. Same with the Tuques. And a did you know…did you know Puff’s new song, \u201cComing Home\u201d was first sung at the Tuques Arena? True story.
\nFast Fact: <\/strong>The Peter Wilson was recently a contestant on The Price Is Right<\/em>.\u00a0 While he made it out of contestants row, he did not win a pricing game and was eliminated prior to the final showcase.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nROSTER<\/strong>
\nKevin Au
\nDiana Cino
\nBrian Ferry
\nJon Fidge
\nAndrea Grande-Capone
\nDmitry Gurvits
\nCaroline Johnston
\nDiane Johnston
\nDave Ladanyi (C)
\nAlfred Liu
\nRoger Ma
\nDenis Miciletto
\nBill Monahan
\nShafiq “Off Black” Perry
\nScott Sampson
\nAnt “Father Time” Ventolieri
\nAngela Vicari
\nMark Wang
\nGabe Wilson
\nThe Peter Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keeping It In The Famiglia Color: Yellow\/Red Year Founded: 2002 2010 Regular Season Finish: 9-7 (2nd, Donohue Division; 9th overall) 2010 Playoff Result: Lost to Happy Little Elves in round of 16 Conference: Schumacher Division: Donohue 2010 Leading Scorer: Denis Miciletto, 9 goals Team Song: Yakety Sax Key Additions: Ant “Father Time” Ventolieri Key Losses: […]<\/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":[153,141,18],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-team-previews","tag-2011-season","tag-la-famiglia","tag-team-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820"}],"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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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