Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'darcytucker'
February 23, 2008
If you're reading this and it's between the hours of 7-9:30pm EST, do yourself a favour and tune into Hockey Night in Canada. You might be witnessing the end of an era in Toronto sports. Mats Sundin, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1997, is on the trading block. Earlier this week, TSN broke the news that interim general manager Cliff Fletcher had asked Sundin for a list of teams he'd be willing to......
Continue Reading "Sundin's Last Stand?"November 1, 2007
One month into the new NHL season, and this much is obvious: the Toronto Maple Leafs are a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, dressed in the league’s silly new jerseys. The Leafs are scoring more often than your younger sister, but they’re also leaking goals at a potentially historic rate. They’ve lost two games by 7–1 final scores, but they’ve also got an 8–1 win and consecutive 4–1 road victories against consensus preseason favourites......
Continue Reading "It's November 1: How's Your Favourite Team Doing?"January 11, 2007
With their 4-1 loss to the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes Tuesday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs slipped back to a .500 record (19-19-6) yet again, and now sit tied for ninth place in the Eastern Conference, fighting for their playoff lives after having played more than half of their games this season. They're missing a hospital ward full of regular players due to injury (Mike Peca, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Ian White, Kyle Wellwood, Darcy......
Continue Reading "A Just-Past-Halfway Analysis Of The Leafs"November 24, 2006
Following the success of gay cowboy epic Brokeback Mountain, it was inevitable that there would be more films about other traditionally uber-hetero occupations considered from a queer POV, and Hollywood desks must have been groaning under stacks of scripts about gay race car drivers, Navy SEALs, and oil patch roughnecks. At the leading edge of this burgeoning trend is Breakfast with Scot, a film currently being shot in Toronto and Hamilton. Tom Cavanaugh (of......
Continue Reading "New Movie to Promote Leaf Pride"September 19, 2006
With all the personnel changes the Maple Leafs made this offseason, it appears little has infact changed on the ice. With the team opening their 2006-07 pre-season against the Buffalo Sabres at the ACC Monday night, it was the same old story for Mats Sundin's team. Excessive penalties, an inability to score, a bleeding Darcy Tucker, average goaltending and Bryan McCabe's goatee each contributed to a performance that was all too familiar to post-lockout Leaf......
Continue Reading "New Goalie, New Coach, Same Losers"September 6, 2006
With Torontoist's past two "sports" entries being titled "Toronto Bike Posts Both Strong and Vulnerable" and "We've Got a Thing 'bout The Post-and-Ring" (the first installment of the two-part series on our city's bike posts), the Adorable Sports Writer feels like it's time to re-capture the floor. And what better time for a comeback. Whether good or bad, not one of our city's pro teams has been without its fair share of headlines over the......
Continue Reading "With More Comebacks Than Mike Tyson: Once Again, Back is the Incredible"February 17, 2006
From where Torontoist is sitting it looks quite lovely outside but don't be fooled. It's cold outside and we just want to remind you to please bundle up, maybe even wearing a jester cap, before going out to do whatever it is you'll be doing this Friday evening. The Weather Office has the windchill at around -25 tonight and sadly it'll stay like this for most of the weekend. *Also, if you skate and can't......
Continue Reading "Bundle Up"December 8, 2005
Victoria BC native Steve Nash has been awarded the Lou Marsh Award as Canadian Athlete of the Year for 2005. The Toronto Star and the elected voting panel awarded Nash the distinction in a unanimous decision announced Thursday in Toronto. The Phoenix Suns point guard was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player last season after leading his team to the Western Conference Championship. He finished the 2004-05 season with just under 200 assists more than......
Continue Reading "Surprise Decision?? No.. Darcy Falls Yet Again"April 8, 2005
For those of you still in mourning over the lost hockey season, Torontoist says “Get a Life Loser”. Both this Friday and next will offer Toronto sports fans something they have been waiting for since the Argo’s Grey Cup win… Excitement! The abysmal basketball season will be pushed aside tonight as baseball returns to the newly revamped Rogers Centre, with the Blue Jays taking the field against the World Champion Boston Red Sox. The 2-1......
Continue Reading "T.G.I.F. Week One of Two"