If haven't seen this show you're seriously deprived! This is a proflie on my FAVOURITE Steelhead, Todd Maplethorpe! >>> Click here for more on the other characters<<<
...Apparently, the show's been cancelled. I think that's stupid. Really, really stupid. I'm VERY mad.
TODD MAPLETHORPE
Played by: Jonathan Rannells
Number: 22
Position: Left Wing
Height: 6'4
Weight: 220 lbs.
Shoots: Right (kick ass!)
Birthplace: Watrous, Saskatchewan
Nickname: Terminal Todd, and Simpsie likes to call him 'T'
Hobbies: Fishing, drawing
Todd is great. You have to watch the show to truly get his Todd-ness. He's kind of dumb, but not in a stupid way, in a cute way. He's different, and pretty weird. And even though these pics don't show it, he looks freakishy like Felix Potvin (who I'm making a page on BTW). I'm not kidding. I'll have to make a list of Todd quotes. But I'm telling you, you have to watch the show to understand how funny Todd can be.
As for play, he isn't called Terimnal Todd for nothing. He's tough, and a great fighter. He never shies away from traffic and is generally feared around the league. But he's not just a goon. In each of his three seasons with Hamilton, Todd has scored over fifty points, usually playing on a line with captain Mark Simpson (Simpsie). Of course, he's also logged over 300 minutes per year in the penalty box. It all started when he played junior hockey in Swift Current, Saskatchewan and Brandon, Manitoba (The WHEATIES!!!!!). He led the Team Canada to a Gold Medal in the 1994 World Junior Championships in Helsinki. (***Note: If Todd Maplethorpe were real, that would be the most kick ass Junior Team Canada ever. Brandon Convery, Bryan McCabe, Ed Jovanovski, Jamie Storr, Mike Peca, AND Todd Maplethorpe???)
"Todd Moments"
There are many "Todd Moments". Here are some of my favourite (not completely accurate, they're from memory) ***More To Come!!!!!***:
Coach Harry Strand: Maplethorpe! What are these cryptic crosses and circles?
Todd: It's tic-tac-toe, coach. I like to play games against myself to see how I do. Right now it's about even.
Strand: And what's this?!
Todd: Uh, cough syrup!
Strand: Cough syrup! Cough! Cough! Maskalnikov!!!
Team Owner Duff McArdle: Todd, can I speak to you for a minute? (To ask him about being the best man at his wedding)
Todd: Sure Mr. McArdle, what is it?
Duff: You've always been like the son I never had.
Todd: And you've always been like the father I never had!
Duff: Except...you have a father.
Todd: Well yeah, but he's like the father I do have, and you're like the father I never had.
Duff: Well you see...
Todd: Or, you could be like the uncle I never had. I mean, I do have uncles, but they're
all on my dad's side of the family.
Duff: So what I wanted to say was...
Todd: So you could be like my uncle, on my mum's side of the family, that I never had. Not that
you'd want to, because on that side of the family (whispers) they're not very bright. So what was it you wanted
you wanted to talk to me about, Mr. McArdle?
Duff: (Walks off, shaking his head) Nothing, Todd, not a damn thing...
Todd: Uh...I enjoyed this!
Todd: Oh wow, do you know who you are?
Jean Béliveau: I think so.
Todd: You're Jean Béliveau!
M. Béliveau: Exactly what I thought.
Todd: Wow, I'm reading your book right now, My Life in Hockey, and it's really good.
But I'm about a 100 pages in, and there's nothing about hockey. Just a bunch of Russian stuff. (Hands over the book)
M. Béliveau: (Opens the book)This is not my book. Somebody put a cover over...War and Peace!
Todd: Oh........that's, uh, Marshak...he's always doing...stuff like that. Could you sign it anyway? Todd..love...Thanks! You're a real classy guy, you know that?
GM Brett Parker: (Walks by) Hey, Todd, bring it with you tonight!
Todd: Bring what with me Mr. Parker?
Parker: It's an expression, Todd. It means to work hard tonight. (Leaves)
Todd: (To Jean Béliveau) He runs the team. He's a little...flighty. (twirls his finger by his head)
Reporter Rose Thornton from the Spectator: ... So Frank Duskey says he's gonna crush you like a sow bug...comments?
Todd: Are sow bugs those guys who look like little armadillos? (Hunches his back over trying to look like a sow bug)
