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Anonymous
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GINGER IS THE BIGGEST SL*T EVER. she has had sex with so many guys on almost every team in the O.. runs the the family (just like her sister )! shes gotta give up the dream sooner than later........... so grimy |
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Anonymous
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i slept with josh, and then he told me he had herpes. this isnt a joke my name is ginger ciacelli, i dont know why u guys keep making fun of me i didnt do anything im not a slut josh is the one that has sex with 12 year old, ask him hes proud of it |
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Anonymous
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To the author of the "Josh, just stop the f*cking puck once in a while please?"comment... 'Sup Nigga? |
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Anonymous
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Josh, just stop the f*cking puck once in a while please? Seriously, quite acting like a jackass and just stop the puck. Man you suck. |
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Anonymous
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r u for real he did her long time ago |
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Anonymous
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last time i heard he was chasing a cougar named rachel she like banging rangers but he hasnt nailed her yet not for a lack of trying |
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History 2004-05: Unice played for the Victory Honda (Michigan). In 41 games, Unice had a record of 21-20-0 with a goals against average of 2.70 and a save percentage of .920. 2005-06: Playing in 35 games with the U-17 squad, Unice ended the year with a record of 18-13-3-2. His goals against average was 2.88 and his save percentage was .907. He also had two shutouts. He was a member of the silver medal winning Team USA squad at the 2006 World U-17 Championships. 2006-07: Splitting playing time with Brad Phillips, Unice appeared in 26 games, finishing with a record of 16-7-1-1. His goals against average was 2.96 and his save percentage was .884. He also posted a shutout three times during the season. Unice appeared in 13 games against NCAA opponents, finishing with a record of 5-6-1. His goals against average was 3.85 and his save percentage was .852. Heading into the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, NHL Central Scouting had Unice ranked as the 15th best goalie. 3rd round (86th overall), 2007 by CHI 2007-08: Unice withdrew his college commitment to join Kitchener of the OHL beginning the 2007-08 season. Fresh off his campaign with the U.S. National Team Development Program, Unice withdrew his college commitment to Bowling Green University for the 2007-08 season and, instead, signed with the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL. Unice put up impressive numbers with Kitchener, as he won over 70 percent of his regular season games and posted a 2.45 GAA. Unice carried this momentum over to the playoffs, where he helped the team win the J. Ross Robertson Cup (OHL Championship) and a berth in the Memorial Cup finals. 2008-09: Traded to the Windsor Spitfires halfway through the season, but saw only light duty for either team. Talent Analysis Unice is technically sound, and plays an aggressive style. Future Unsigned by the Blackhawks in 2009, he is a free agent. Stats . Profile Last Updated: August, 27th 2009 |
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In his rookie season with Kitchener, 2007 3rd round pick Josh Unice has established himself as one of the top goalies in the Ontario Hockey League. Unice is 26-3-1-1 with 4 shutouts and a 2.41 goals against average. He recently talked to chicagoblackhawks.com about his stellar season, his World Junior Championship snub and more. You've obviously had tremendous success so far this season in the OHL. Has your performance even surprised you a bit? Kind of. I thought that when I got to the OHL it was going to be a different game than it was, but the difference wasn't as big as I thought it would be. I also have the best team in all of Canada in front of me, so they make it easy on me most nights. You were originally slated to play college hockey for Bowling Green this season. Why did you decide to play in the OHL instead? Obviously I want to play hockey at as high a level as I can. Everybody I talked to said that you can't buy game experience. The fact that I have already played more games this year than I would have in almost two years of college -- and I'm only halfway through the season -- is a big draw. I thought it would be best for my development, and I really didn't see Bowling Green going in the right direction I wanted it to go. I felt that Kitchener was one of the best organizations in all of Canada so it was by far the best choice I could make. How did you end up with Kitchener and not another OHL team? I was never planning to go to the OHL and wasn't drafted or anything. They pretty much just recruited me. I was brought up on a visit and really liked it, and the rest is history. You mentioned the team playing in front of you. What's it like playing for a team as dominant as Kitchener is right now? It could be nine, ten minutes and I won't see a shot, and then I see a shot and I have to stay on my toes. But the team is unbelievable. I have never played on a team that is so good defensively. I try to control my rebounds as best I can, but even when I give up a bad rebound it seems there's always somebody there to clear it for me. Everybody has each other's back here. If one guy makes a mistake the other four, five guys will step up. I can't even begin to describe how good of a defensive-minded team we are. As of January 29, Kitchener has the best record in the OHL at 39-6-1-2 and is the only team to have already clinched a playoff spot. With the Memorial Cup in Kitchener this year, I'm guessing anything but winning that will be a disappointment for you guys. Yeah, we've been rated No. 1 in Canada for a while now and that was our goal at the beginning of the year. It would be kind of a waste for us to have such a good season and not play so well at the Memorial Cup. Everybody here is waiting, just counting down the days until we really get to shoot for that. I'm positive we have the team to do it. Off the ice has there been much of an adjustment for you? How have people taken you in as an American kid? Everybody has been really nice. It was a little weird when I first got here. Some of the food is a little different, and the language is a little different. But Kitchener's pretty much just like Toledo. Same number of people, same kind of setup. It really wasn't that big of a change and everybody was really welcoming when I got here. You attended Blackhawks training camp this past summer. Was there anything that opened your eyes about the NHL game that you were able to take away from that experience? I had to be more patient. I've always just been able to react and usually not have a problem with it. But when you get to the NHL shooters, if you're just waiting and trying to guess, they'll pick you apart. The speed of the play is so much faster than anything I've ever played before. Everybody says it's just timing, and once I got my timing down it was still a challenge, but it was a challenge I liked and grasped. How disappointing was it for you to not be selected the U.S. World Junior Championship team? It was obviously a disappointment. I felt that I had dropped everything out there and proved to everybody I was good enough to make the team. Coach [John] Hynes had a tough call with the goalies he had to pick. There were three of us that were leading candidates. [Jeremy] Smith also had an unbelievable year. [Joe] Palmer's team isn't real good in front of him, but he's having an unbelievable year as well. It was a hard choice, but I respected his decision. I'm a little frustrated that they didn't do as well as they thought they were going to, but there's always next year. It's not like it was my last year. Joe Palmer was a 4th round choice of the Blackhawks in 2006 and currently plays for Ohio State. Is that a big motivating factor for you then? Definitely. I saw the games and I realized that I could definitely help the team out and I hope next year I get a shot at it. I'm going to finish this year first. The World Juniors isn't for another year. I have a lot of games and playoffs and a Memorial Cup to worry about until then. Steve Mason had a great tournament for Team Canada and is now a teammate of your's after being traded from London. I understand Kitchener wanted to make sure they were stocked in net going into the Memorial Cup. How do you see his arrival affecting you? It's obvious that it's going to take away. I've been the starter here. But from what I've been told, we're going to split the rest of the year and the best guy's going to go to the playoffs. Obviously he's a world class goalie. He's drafted, he's played NHL games. I'm just going to try to learn from him and maybe take a couple of his little tips and help improve my game. It's going to be a battle. I was the starter here; I'm not just going to give up that easy. Mason, the MVP of the 2008 World Junior Championships, was assigned to Kitchener by Columbus on Jan. 11 and has appeared in four games going 3-1 with a shutout and a 3.00 goals against average. Unice is 6-1 in January with a 3.14 GAA and has won his last four starts. This has been an amazing year for you going back to the U-18 World Junior Championship and the Draft. What has stood out as the highlight of your young career so far? Getting drafted would probably be the highlight. You can't really pick one though. Obviously the World Championship with Team USA last year was a big moment in my life. Then I came to the draft and got selected by the Blackhawks and had this run with Kitchener. Probably the last year would be the best moment I've ever had. Unice won a silver medal playing for the U.S. National Under-18 Team at the 2007 World Under-18 Championship in Finland. You've had a chance to play against fellow 2007 Hawks draft pick Akim Aliu with London. Talk about what makes him a dangerous opponent? He's their quarterback on the power play. He's always at the point taking his hard one-timer. As a goalie you can kind of see what they're going to do and they always feed him the puck, so you just always have to be ready when he has the puck because he's their go-to guy on the power play. What are the things you need to work on to be an NHL goalie? Do you have any kind of personal timetable in place for getting to the league? I don't have a timetable. I feel that I have developed a lot over the past couple of months and the past couple of years. But I need to challenge opponents more. I'm not a huge guy so I need to be able to play out of my net a little more. And puckhandling is becoming a huge part of goalie's games now, so I need to work on that and just keep playing and practicing hard and working and hopefully one day I'll make it to the NHL. I don't have a timetable though; that's not my call. Hopefully I'll impress the Blackhawks and the timetable ends up being shorter rather than longer. |
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Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. 2010 Wintergames Weather Centre 6°C A few clouds Windsor Detailed Forecast Search Quick links: ShopLocal, Obituaries, Horoscope, Lotteries Home Don't miss: Reader photos Spitfires Mobile Graston's cartoons Summer Fun Guide Golf Guide 2010 Winter Games Public salary database » RSSNews Windsor ⁄ Ontario Canada World Weather Today's Paper The Bright Side Opinion Blogs Reader Comments Letters Columnists Editorials Op–Ed Graston's Cartoons Business Money Markets on FP Automotive Sports Spitfires/Hockey Football Baseball Basketball Golf Auto Racing Winter Sports Tennis Mixed Martial Arts Soccer 2010 Olympics Entertainment Movies Television TV Listings Music Books Celebrity Life Fashion & Beauty Food & Wine Parenting Relationship Diversions - Comics & Games Mike Holmes Health Women Men Family & Child Seniors Sexual Health Diet & Fitness Swine Flu Technology Personal Tech Gaming Tech–Biz Internet Environment Space Science Best of YouTube Travel Trip Ideas Tools & Tips Community All Destinations Jobs Search Jobs Resources Post Jobs My Profile Cars Buy Sell Weekly Specials Research drivingTV Homes For Sale/Rent Tips for Buyers & Sellers Renovating Decorating Gardening Condo Living Vacation Homes Green Homes Mike Holmes Classifieds Announcements Dating Obituaries Job Listings Car Listings Real Estate For Sale/Rent ShopLocal Place an Ad Passingham wins backup job for Spits Rookie Whaley also on roster By Jim Parker, The Windsor StarSeptember 13, 2009 ERIE 8 WINDSOR 4 - - - Goaltender Troy Passingham wore an awfully big smile for a guy that had just given up six goals. The Windsor Spitfires rookie went the distance in Saturday's exhibition finale and got little support in an 8-4 loss to the Erie Otters before an announced crowd of 5,175 at the WFCU Centre. After the game, Passingham was called into the board room by management, but it was to give him the good news he had earned the backup job behind Josh Unice. "He didn't have a lot of help on those goals," Spitfires head coach Bob Boughner said. "All in all, he's been excellent." The 18-year-old Passingham and rookie Michael Whaley were both told they have made the team. The club dispatched rookie Michael Nishi to Tier II back in Toronto to serve as the team's third-string goalie. The Spitfires also cut centre Nick MacEachern. "We can't make any other moves right now because we don't know who'll be back by Thursday (for the regular-season opener)," Boughner said. In fact, the six-foot-five, 195-pound Passingham could get the nod in the opener if Unice is still away. "They told me to be ready," Passingham said. It was a big risk when Passingham opted to join the Spitfires. He had been to rookie camp in June with Sarnia, but elected to come to Windsor where Unice and Steve Gleeson were already in the fold. "(Sarnia) offered me a chance to go to main camp, but not a contract," Passingham said. When Gleeson opted to go home and asked for a trade to the Toronto area, Passingham had an opening. "That made it a little easier, but you still have to be your best," he said. "I just focused on my game and worked hard every night." Even with Saturday's six goals against, he finished exhibition play with a 3.67 goals-against average and .902 save percentage. "Brian Teakle (the team's Toronto-area scout) liked him two years ago," Spitfires general manager Warren Rychel said. "He's proven he can be a capable backup, if not more." After a brief stint in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Passingham is looking forward to a shot with the Memorial Cup champs. "As I got a little older, I got more confident," Passingham said of being a late bloomer. "As a team, I want to win a Memorial Cup and, personally, I want to push Unice every day." Whaley was the team's 13th-round pick this year, but has been impressive. He finished second in exhibition scoring with three goals and seven points in five games. "Obviously, he needs to work on his strength, but he's very intelligent and has very good speed," Rychel said. Whaley was held off the scoresheet Saturday, but watched the Spitfires build a 4-2 lead in the second period on goals by rookies Cam Fowler and Derek Lanoue along with singles by Taylor Hall and Justin Shugg. Sloppy play and defensive breakdowns by Windsor allowed the Otters to rally for the final six goals of the game, which included two empty-net goals. Windsor finished the exhibition sea-son 3-2 and will open against the Plymouth Whalers Thursday, when the team will raise its Memorial Cup banner. |
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Anonymous
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shes got mad stds... i wouldnt touch her with a 10 foot pole |
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Anonymous
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hahahh shes gross!! |
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Anonymous
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banged borden..... along with the rest of my team |
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Anonymous
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josh unice is a good looking guy, who is adoriable and super nice to girls! |
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Anonymous
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what is wrong with the name Ginger???? |
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Anonymous
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for all those people who say hes a jerk, get your facts straight. hes an amazing guy |
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Anonymous
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why are you defending a girl named ginger? |
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Anonymous
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Ginger is amazing! She is not a slut so get you're facts straight. Next time why don't you be a bit more classy and not post something like this on a public website like come on! She is awesome and I love her and she is at from a slut. So grow up and stop being jealous |
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Anonymous
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ginger as in the girl ginger. thebig slut around the O |
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Anonymous
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josh is awesome, he's under appericated by many fans, they all suck. he's the bestest ohl goalie ever, and he' so nice to the fans. |
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Anonymous
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he has blonde hair actually? |
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Anonymous
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josh unice has 85095820 girlfriends he plays everyone.it's discusting look out std's |
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Anonymous
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hey josh, im season ticket holder for 08/09 season i sit 3rd row behind ur bench |
