Allen Panzeri

Captured the spirit of the thing for 34 1/2 years at the family Medicine Hat News, Edmonton Journal, and Ottawa Citizen. Now, living the dream.

[Wayne Scanlan @HockeyScanner]

Those of us who reside here know it to be true: Ottawa is a fabulous place to live, to raise a family . . . and to play hockey.

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

Good riddance.

[Bruce Garrioch @SunGarrioch]

BREAKING: Senators send captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers
Ottawa Citizen https://t.co/BkIrDhdD3M via @ottawacitizen

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

Good riddance. He didn’t want to be here.

[Wayne Scanlan @HockeyScanner]

There will be some short term pain, but I believe long term gain on this Tkachuk deal. I vote yes.

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

@PxPOttawa Go Sens Go . . . oh . . . well . . .

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

@jimmathesonnhl @globemartyk Just awful awful treatment . . .

[McGill Athletics @McGillAthletics]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to veteran newspaper scribe Pat Hickey, who is recovering from double bypass surgery and an aorta valve replacement. Pat once served as an assistant basketball coach at McGill in 1969-70 before embarking on a long newspaper career.

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

I’ll take a margherita to go, please . . .

[La Stampa @LaStampa]

Durante la visita a Napoli, Papa Leone XIV ha fatto fermare la Papamobile in Piazza Vittoria per ricevere la pizza creata per lui da Gino Sorbillo, con la scritta "Papa Leone XIV". A consegnarla è stato Ciro, dipendente della pizzeria, che emozionato ha chiesto una foto al Pontefice. Il Papa ha sorriso, ringraziato e posato con lui tra gli applausi e i "W il Papa" della folla. In mattinata Sorbillo aveva già distribuito la "Pizza Papa" a clienti e turisti nel centro antico di Napoli, piegata "a portafoglio"

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[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

Doesn’t matter. They’re going to end up picking Alexandre Daigle . . .

[Stephen Whyno @SWhyno]

Live from Secaucus, in the room where it happened, witnessed the lottery balls bounce the Maple Leafs’ way do get the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft: https://t.co/DI7Mn5tjOc

[Rich Nairn @RichNairn9]

@spittinchiclets @BizNasty2point0 When Doan's contact was up, he wanted to play 1 more season in AZ. He was willing to play on the 4th line and help the young players in the organization. Chayka told him no chance and then advised the Meruelos against bringing him back in the organziation in a hockey role.

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

@VinnysCorner1 Second baseman Peter Mackanin . . .

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

@_ShellyAnderson Sad news, Shelly. Best wishes.

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

@DonMartinCTV Best wishes, Don . . .

[Don Martin @DonMartinCTV]

I rarely like getting too personal in my writing but hope my successful cancer-fighting experience helps others in this situation if a clincial trial opens up. https://t.co/XRgzTO2sjq

[Boston Bruins @NHLBruins]

Big Zee back at it 🏃

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

@IvisonJ @DonMartinCTV Best wishes, Don . . .

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

Start your week off on the right foot with this wonderful, hopeful read from my old pal @DonMartinCTV, who is living his best life again. https://t.co/DvAi1HYoL8

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

In a deleted scene from The Godfather, Vito and his sons visit Genco, the family’s original consigliere, as he is dying of cancer in the hospital. Genco also appears in Vito’s flashback sequences in The Godfather Part II, where he is identified as the son of the grocer Vito once worked for. He is a key figure bridging the gap between Vito’s early years in Part II and the events of the first film.

After the murder of Don Fanucci, Genco became Vito’s right-hand man and helped establish the Genco Pura Olive Oil Company, which served as the family’s main front for its criminal operations.

He also advised Vito during the major conflict with Salvatore Maranzano, Fanucci’s former boss and the most powerful crime figure in New York. This is the war Clemenza refers to in The Godfather when he prepares Michael to kill Sollozzo: “It’s been ten years since the last one.”

Genco’s advice came from an instinctive understanding of Sicilian psychology and the realities of New York Mafia politics. In the novel, it's implied that Genco would have recognized the trap set by the Five Families in 1945. Tom Hagen read their quietness as peace and a willingness to negotiate, but Genco would have seen it as the silence that comes before an ambush.

His death is therefore significant, as it reveals the Corleone's’ vulnerability: they have lost one of their most valuable assets, an experienced Sicilian strategist, and are now moving toward Tom Hagen, a capable lawyer but not a true wartime consigliere.

This frustration is later voiced by Sonny when he says, “If I had a wartime consigliere, a Sicilian, I wouldn’t be in this shape. Pop had Genco, look what I got.”

The scene was cut for pacing reasons. It would have taken place after Connie’s wedding, when Vito meets with Johnny Fontane (the character loosely based on Frank Sinatra) before the scene in which Tom Hagen visits the producer in Los Angeles.

[Allan Walsh🏒 @walsha]

Wishing my blood brother for life, the one and only Marty Havlat a very happy birthday.

[Allen Panzeri @allenpanzeri2]

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[Brian Morris @Morris_Brian]

Good things happen to good people.

These are good people.