Sports Stars on Teams You Don't Remember

By Ryan Tofil March 13, 2018 at 2:28pm

Ed Belfour

Twenty years ago today, the Sharks acquired goaltender Ed Belfour from the Blackhawks in a four-player + pick trade #BellLetsTalk pic.twitter.com/MMZIZI4glf

— Mike Commito (@mikecommito) January 25, 2017

A multiple-time Vezina winner as the best goalie in the NHL, Ed Belfour spent beefy chunks of time with the Blackhawks, Stars, and Maple Leafs. If you squint hard and tilt your head a little you might even be able to remember his last year in the league, in which he suited up for 58 games in a Florida Panthers uniform. But it’s the end of the 1996-1997 season we’re focusing on, that time when he played 13 games for an out-of-contention San Jose Sharks after being acquired from the Blackhawks in return for three players and a second-round pick.

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Ryan Tofil lived all of his life in Western New York before graduating college and moving to Arizona in 2014 to work for the nonprofit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

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Ryan Tofil's experience on The Western Journal goes back to 2014 when he was an intern for the non-profit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. These websites eventually combined and became one of the most popular lifestyle websites in the world, at one point being ranked inside the top 200 websites in America by Alexa.com. Liftable.com lives on today as a section of The Western Journal. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

Outside of work, Ryan loves to play chess, sports, and video games; usually while smoking a cigar. He is a proud bird-owner and aquarium aficionado, and always jokes about needing concealed carry permits for his fists, despite only having been in one fight in his life and losing quite badly. His claim to fame is having possibly been the worst NCAA baseball player in the country, riding the bench for a DIII team that went 3-31. He loved every second of it.

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Western New York

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A.S., Communication, Jamestown Community College

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English, barely. Even worse at Spanish.

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