San Jose Sharks Star Joe Thornton Autograph Signing at Pro Hockey Life Grand Opening
July 10, 2008
Joe Thornton, Captain of the San Jose Sharks was on Hand at Pro Hockey Life’s newest location’s grand opening in Missisuaga. Read the article in the Mississauga News about Big Joe’s appearance at Pro Hockey World.
July 11, 2008 08:52 AM - The man hockey lovers know as ‘Jumbo Joe’ made an appearance in Mississauga yesterday to sign a few autographs and meet his many fans.
All six-foot-four and 223 pounds of Joe Thornton, a massive centre with the National Hockey League’s San Jose Sharks, swung by the grand opening of the very first Pro Hockey Life store in Mississauga. Thornton, who won the 2005-06 Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player and the Art Ross Trophy for leading the league in scoring with 29 goals and 96 assists for 125 points, was all smiles as he signed autographs for the throng of people who showed up to see him.
Thornton, a native of London, Ontario, also represented his country by donning the Team Canada jersey at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Throughout his career, which began as a first overall draft pick of the Boston Bruins in 1997, the forward has scored 240 goals and 516 assists in 754 games while amassing 775 penalty minutes.
The new 20,000-sq.-ft. store, located in the Heartland Centre, is the second Ontario location. It carries more than 7,000 hockey sticks, over 2,500 pairs of skates and every NHL team jersey, both home and away.
“This great location means that customers in (the GTA) will now have the opportunity to explore our megastore and benefit from our unparalleled selection of hockey equipment, apparel and accessories,” said Scott Jackson, the chief operating officer of Pro Hockey Life. “(The store) will provide the region’s hockey enthusiasts an opportunity to interact with our Pro Hockey Life specialists, and benefit from their knowledge and passion for hockey thus assuring the best hockey shopping experience around.”
The Entire store was packed, and security was pretty tight, so it was difficult to get a good photo. None the less, I snapped this one of Joe posing for a pic with some of his younger fans.
When I got up to meet Joe, My camera was mysteriously jamming…. although I was able to fix it in time to snap this one of Joe signing a pic of himself I grabbed while waiting in line. Nice.
Heres a nice shot of Joe amidst the chaos of fans and autograph hounds stewing around him anxiously. his wrists must have been pretty soar.
Hey Folks, I just got back from England and I was indeed able to attend the Joe Thornton signing last night at Hockey Life in Mississauga.
It was a superfantasic event, I got Mr.Thornton to autograph my 8×10 photograph, he was nice enough to sign it “to: Kayvon”, which was a real thrill.
Here’s Mr.Thornton signing the wall of the great new Pro Hockey Life store in Mississauga, the only downfall of the day was that Joe’s cousin Scott didn’y show up to the signing, which I sort of expected him too. I carried around cards of Scott Thornton all day in the off chance he would show up to no avail.
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4 now i took this photo of my boy Pauchy Paulie at Pro Hockey World at the Joe thorton sihning BurgerCAM baby
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Heres a pic from the other side of the podium where Joe was signing Autographs
Heres another, probably my worst work ever.