Jonathan Toews keeps amassing more silver and gold than a pirate. The city of Tampa, Florida, is as good a place as any to plunder more silver, at least.
Every year, Tampa celebrates the apocryphal legend of Jose Gaspar with the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, where thousands dress up in their best swashbuckling garb and revelry ensues.
Toews, meanwhile, will be dressing up as a Blackhawk from Chicago trying to score the great silver haul that is the Stanley Cup. If he accomplishes that feat in a few weeks' time, it will be for the third time in the last six years, not to mention the thick slices of gold handed to him and his last two Canadian Olympic teams.
It’s enough booty to make Blackbeard jealous.
The legend of Toews just keeps growing and growing. Chicago Tribune columnist David Haugh put it nicely after the eight-year veteran led Chicago to a Game 7 victory over Anaheim on Saturday night:
It all started with Toews as it always does in big games. In front of boyhood hero Wayne Gretzky, Toews was the greatest one for the Hawks, delivering a playoff performance they will be describing w ...
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Jonathan Toews on His Way to Legendary Status with a 3rd Stanley Cup in Sight
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