According to a story running in today’s Vancouver Sun, Dallas Stars’ goaltender Marty Turco (you suck) paid Il Giardino over $1000 per head for a dinner he hosted for eight of his teammates on the night before his team lost Game 7 to the Canucks…
Turco (you suck) had taken the same eight Stars to the same restaurant on the night before Game 5 (which Dallas won in overtime), and was so insistent that the evening be repeated that he shelled out $10,000 for the chef and two FOH staff to oblige his susperstitious idiocy (ka-ching)
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Taking the money, Il Giardino opened especially for Turco (you suck) on a night they are usually closed (Sunday) and served the same food and wine as they had done on the night before Game 5.
This was all for naught, of course, as the Stars were sent back to their ice-less wasteland after losing 4 to 1 in Game 7 the follwing night.
What Turco (you suck) didn’t know, however, was that the staff at Il Giardino had taped a Roberto Luongo collectible souvenir coin to the bottom of his chair. For real.
Moral of the story? Don’t fuck with Italians on the night before you play against their hero, Roberto Luongo (the best Italian goalie since Tony Esposito). It will only bite you in the ass.
