Timmins Tutankhamuns

With last week's big trade the Timmins Tutankhamuns have completed their rebuild flip of Steven Stamkos and acquired notably Quinn Hughes along with Dylan Strome and additional picks. "I'm very proud," Hughes said. "I've heard a lot of great things about Timmins and it's obviously a hockey market so I'm really excited and it's a dream come true. I honestly don't know what to say right now. I'm just excited." "It kind of came out of nowhere," Strome said of the trade when the Tutankhamuns were in Navier last week. "It was a shock."

Hey Vanier Paque Daddies, looks like James Neal might be expansion bound once again... who's bringing the wine to our sad bathtub party? 🛀🍷

Alumni - Rick Nash:

Goal scoring winger Rick Nash has had the most tumultuous career of any Keeper League player up to date. Today, we explore that career. With a weak showing last season and free agency looming this summer, he’ll need a big year to stay in the league.

Drafted by Vanier Paque Daddies in 2015, Rick found a home on a team with many other veterans. Through time, Vanier has always been his home. "This is the team I was drafted to, and this is where I've made my home for the last three years. I don't want to switch teams. I'd rather take this team to the top". Trying to balance their lines, Vanier moved the LW to Timmins for RW Jakub Voracek. "There was a lot of limbo for sure," Nash said. "It was a tough time and a tough period of five months. But the thing now is it's over and I can look forward to next year".
For Nash, it meant starting all over. A new school for his kids, a new book club for his wife and of course, a new house. "We're happy to have a five-time All-Star on our team and a 40-goal scorer" stated the Timmins’ GM. "He's one of the better goal scorers in the National Hockey League and he'll help us immensely." Little did Nash know, this wasn’t the last time he would be moved? Attempting to dethrone St Louis du Haha (then Team Wojcik), Timmins had loaded up on veterans, ready to make an immediate impact. Rick, maybe because of the change of scenery, regressed. He wasn’t putting up the numbers he had been getting in previous years. He was on a short leash with the impatient Timmins’ GM who demanded production. Following another slow month, Nash was sent right back to Vanier a month before the deadline, this time for veteran Andrew Ladd.

Following a lowly last place finish, Nash knew next year was a big one: “Every year I want to have the best year possible. But this year, it’s an important year for me personally”. He spent the whole year back in Vanier watching the Tutankhamuns lose out on first place, regretting, wondering, what could have been if he pushed himself just a little harder. Could he have contributed to Timmins’ success? Could he have gotten Timmins that extra point? His regret was palpable. He though what a waste of an opportunity and here he was, on the lowly Vanier Paque Daddies, barely cracking the lineup week to week.

While stuck in this mindset, Rick received a call on an early morning in the offseason. It was Daddy Paque himself, team owner, informing him he had been traded. He thought, what not? I guess I have to go and try and make the Bu***ke? ‘’Play with the Bu***ke“ he thought? “Be a part of the Bu***ke“ he wondered? How vile. How ridiculous. How unsanitary. But when he asked where he had been traded to. He heard those magical words. The name a pharaoh, an ancient king who had lead a mighty empire, the Timmins Tutankhamuns. He hung up the phone patiently waiting for a call from the organization who had given him a second shot. That phone call, never came. Exactly a month later, he turned on the TV. How could this have happened, no one had even called him. He had been used as a pawn. He was heading to Drummondville…

It is with great honour that the Timmins Tutankhamuns organization present their new team logo for a historic 2017-2018 season.

“Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the KP17 Championship.” – Timmins Captain Sidney Crosby