Do you know who this man is? Dave Tiger Williams is best known as the NHL's all time penalty minute leader. Over 14 seasons he accumulated 3966 minutes in the box, with an additional 455 in the playoffs which is also a record. When I was a kid, Tiger Williams was my favorite NHL enforcer. He and Dave "Cement Head" Semenko are the classic archetypes. Here's a more recent, more refined photo of Tiger.
One of my favorite bands are called The Hanson Brothers.
They get their name from a hockey movie called Slapshot. In the movie, the Hanson Brothers are goons that transform a small town's terrible hockey team with brutally hilarious and inane enforcer antics.
The band "The Hanson Brothers" recorded a song called "He Looked a Lot Like Tiger Williams." This song compares Tiger Williams with a Doctor, a traffic cop, and eventually the big man upstairs saying "I'll bet he looks like Tiger Williams." For most of us, that is probably a little hard to picture, so I've done up a couple of "Artist's representations." I couldn't decide if it would be the young Tiger at the top of his game,
or a more refined, more distinguished Tiger...
either way, it doesn't look like Davinci got it too far off. This is all coming to mind as we are building a guitar for our local NHL hockey team, The Vancouver Canucks. Some of the Sparrow crew are headed to the preseason game tomorrow against the Sharks, and we are really excited about it. Hockey Season is Here! Go Nucks!
