His first visit to Washington after signing (and he again tells people how to pronounce his name)

José signed with Washington on July 1, 2008, and his first visit to meet with management and staff was July 10, 2008. Here are some photos from that day.

Then this was a bit of his media scrum. I liked how he admitted he'd had some bad years, but they made him stronger mentally. And I love when he tells people how to pronounce his name, since so many people mess it up. I apologize for the background noise, so idea what's going on back there...maybe a Zamboni!

Then here is when he sat down with Mike Vogel the same day for a Snap Shots interview. Here again he addresses his last name. He says:

"I don’t know why they say ‘THAY-uh-dore’, because it’s actually an English name, my dad is English, so it’s ‘THEE-uh-dore.’"

What I'm up to

Over on tumblr I've been going through all José's games from the 2007-08 season, because those are the oldest games I can see on GameCenter right now. They keep all NHL games in their archive for 6 seasons. So I've been watching all of them and taking screen shots and posting photos from the games as well. I didn't know if it's something I should also do here, but maybe I should have. Although honestly it seems most people come to this site anymore looking for photos of José and Stephanie (which I love, because I'm happy to provide a place for people to see so many of their photos), so maybe people wouldn't really want to see the game-by-game stuff....I'm struggling a little bit with what I should do on here. I don't want to totally give it up, because it's the first José blog I started, and it was the beginning of it all. But I have more followers on tumblr and Facebook, so I just don't have the time to devote here.

I think I will still post shots of José from his TVA appearances. He's still been doing that. I'm waiting for my friend in Montreal to send me the shows, so once she does that I'll have screen shots to share. He usually went up to Montreal one week a month, and the other appearances were from his home in Florida. I have a feeling his family will be headed back up to Montreal for the summer soon, so maybe he'll be in-studio this coming week to discuss the Stanley Cup Finals games.

And since I finished his last season in Colorado over on tumblr, I'm now moving on to his first season in Washington.

But I will share this. I recorded the celebration and handshake line after the Avs' Game 6 win over Minnesota on April 19, 2008. We get to see a very happy José and hear the announcers talk about how great he was and how he was the series MVP.

So this was from April 19, 2008.


Then they met eventual Champions Detroit in the next round, and José had a bad case of the flu the first 2 games and wasn't able to finish either game. And the Avs were swept that series, so I won't focus on that. But that Minnesota series was awesome!

José's appearance at a signing on May 3, 2014

José appeared at the Sport Card & Memorabilia Expo in Toronto on Saturday, May 3, 2014.

The folks at The AJ SportsWorld Autograph Pavilion shared a whole album of photos on their Facebook page. You can see the album on their page here.

I will post my favorites. It was the best collection of photos I think I've ever run across at one time. They did a great job of taking a lot of really nice photos.

This first one is my favorite, because of the look on his face and how we can tell he's actually listening to the person in front of him, as he always does. But also because we can see the fan's #60 in the corner. Perfect picture!

Images from TVA appearances

I realize I've not been keeping up here as I should, and I do feel bad about that. I spend so much time on my tumblr page and Facebook page I just don't have time to do all 3. It seems most people come here to see pictures of José and Stephanie in a couple of the posts I've made in the past, so I'm glad I've been able to put so many of their pictures in one place here.

But here are images from most of his appearances from December through this week. He seems to go up to Montreal about one week out of the month and is in-studio there to either appear on Le Premier Trio or Le Match. Then he appears other times via video from his home in Boca Raton. He usually appears at least once a week, and when he's from home it's always on Le Premier Trio.

And I would like to say a big thank-you to Val for recording all the shows for me, since I can't get TVA down here. She sends me images and video clips as soon as she can after the shows air, and then she sends me more complete shows later on. I really appreciate it, because I would have hardly anything from his appearances without her, because they don't post much of the stuff online.

So beginning in December (before he cut his hair. ;)

From his interview with Denis Levesque. 

Here's the show where Romi was in the background wearing his mask. TOO CUTE!

And during this relatively recent one (April 14th) he made a good point and gave this look and it was awesome!

And this is the most recent I have (from last night, 4/24/14.)