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| manninm |
Posted - 05/07/2007 : 14:27:13
I don't know if we've had a topic like this before, but I'm wondering if any of you have nicknames for your favorite players? Here are a couple of mine...more to come soon.
Jason Pominville - J-Pom (as in "I love the smell of J-Pom in the morning")
Mats Sundin - BDS (Big Dumb Swede)
Darcy Tucker - Mother Tucker
Daniel Briere - The Cookie Monster - stolen from Rick Jeanneret
Colin White - Bad Human Being
Claude Lemieux - Turtle-Dee
Chris Neil - Turtle-Dumb
Because the demands on a goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie, the biggest enemy is himself." ~Ken Dryden |
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| willus3 |
Posted - 10/25/2007 : 10:40:25
quote:
Originally posted by andyhack
Okay, checked it. O'Reilly was the Tazmanian Devil. See below.
http://www.nshl.com/teams/oreilly.html
Not sure about Tonelli being the Porcupine though. Maybe he just reminded me of a porcupine for some reason. He was like a needle in everyone's face. Anyway, older guys out there, was Tonelli a tremendous workhorse of a guy or what? Had some talent too. Made the nice pass to Nystrom for the overtime goal that started the Isles Dynasty. And what a battler in the corners! Ahhh, I miss those old-time guys a bit.
Oh, and the 1984 Canada Cup MVP? None other than the Porcupine (a.k.a. "The Greasy Jet")
Is it just me or would "the greasy jet" be considered not p.c. these days?
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| andyhack |
Posted - 10/24/2007 : 19:58:11
Okay, checked it. O'Reilly was the Tazmanian Devil. See below.
http://www.nshl.com/teams/oreilly.html
Not sure about Tonelli being the Porcupine though. Maybe he just reminded me of a porcupine for some reason. He was like a needle in everyone's face. Anyway, older guys out there, was Tonelli a tremendous workhorse of a guy or what? Had some talent too. Made the nice pass to Nystrom for the overtime goal that started the Isles Dynasty. And what a battler in the corners! Ahhh, I miss those old-time guys a bit.
Oh, and the 1984 Canada Cup MVP? None other than the Porcupine (a.k.a. "The Greasy Jet") |
| nashvillepreds |
Posted - 10/24/2007 : 15:02:17
Bryan "worthless" mccabe
Joe "psychic" Sakic
Darcy "wimpo" Tucker
Ilya " catch me if ya can" Kovalchuk
Dion "pummle" Phaneuf
GO PREDATORS GO |
| OILINONTARIO |
Posted - 10/24/2007 : 14:58:37
Dave "Cementhead" Semenko
Bill "Cowboy" Flett
Esa "The Grate One" Tikkanen
Grant "Coco" Fuhr
Glenn "Mork" Anderson
Blair "BJ" McDonald
And a couple of popular spoonerisms: Grayne Wetzky and Harlie Chuddy!
The Oil WILL make the playoffs. |
| andyhack |
Posted - 10/24/2007 : 09:49:42
Two of my all-time favorite players:
Terry "Bloody" O'Reilly
and
John "The Greasy Jet" Tonelli
I was not an Islander fan but I absolutely loved Tonelli. I don't know where it came from but for some reason I also remember him being referred to as the "Porcupine". Also, for O'Reilly I seem to recall the "Tazmanian Devil". Anyone else recall those names? Or maybe those were just the nicknames my buddies and I came up with for them, I don't remember. |
| EpitomyOfStupidity |
Posted - 10/24/2007 : 09:10:10
Bernie "Boom-Boom" Geoffrion
Bobby "The Golden Jet" Hull (Also used on Brett Hull)
Frank "The Big M" Mahovlich
Henri "The Pocket Rocket" Richard (Also used on Rick Tocchet)
Mario "The Megnificent One" Lemieux
Wayne "The Great One" Gretzky
Georges "The Chicoutimi Cucumber" Vezina
Frank "Mister Zero" Brimsek
Mark "Moose" Messier (Also used on Johan Hedberg)
More recent ones....
Adam "Footer" Foote
Alexander "Almo" Mogilny
Brendan "Shanny" Shanahan
Curtis "Cujo" Joseph
Damien "Dusty"Rhodes aka The Peroxide Kid
Danny "The Mad Russian" Markov
Dave "Chuckie" Andreychuk
Dominik "The Dominator" Hasek
Donald "Brash" Brashear
Ed "The Eagle" Belfour
Fredrik "Coma" Modin
Jeremy "Styles" Roenick (J.R.)
Joe "Burnaby Joe" Sakis (THERE IS NO OTHER FREAKIN NICKNAME!!!! lol)
Kim "Kimbo" Johnsson
Mark "Rex" Recchi
Martin "The Eliminator" Gelinas (For all those Play-off Series winning goals)
Martin "Midget" St. Louis
Mats "Sudden" Sundin
Michal "Zues" Handzus
Nikolai "Bulin Wall" Khabibulin
Pavel "Datsyukian One" Datsyuk
Peter "Foppa" Forsberg
Robert "Chico" Esche
Sami "Kappy" Kapanen
Scott "Gomer" Gomez
Teemu "The Finnish Flash" Selanne
Simon "Gags" Gagne
Todd "Fridge" Fedoruk
EoS |
| Mikhailova |
Posted - 10/23/2007 : 22:23:21
I'm starting to call Fleury "Marc-Andre-Ronald Fleury." Anyone seen The Kingdom? The main character's name is Ronald Fleury. Whenever I hear someone in the movie say "Agent Fleury" I think of the Penguins' goalie, LOL!
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| OILINONTARIO |
Posted - 10/16/2007 : 20:18:22
Habs' Goalie Andre "Red light" Racicot.
The Oil WILL make the playoffs. |
| Guest4393 |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 10:34:54
McLean 'Captain Kirk'
Linden 'Trev'
Bure 'Russian Rocket'
Mogilny 'Alex The Great'
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| Guest4393 |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 10:29:07
Here's some old ones
Wayne : 'The Great Ones'
Selanne: 'The Finnish Flash'
Hawerchuk: 'Smokey'
Cherry 'Knuckles' |
| Canucks Man |
Posted - 10/02/2007 : 22:20:06
Jeff Cowan- The Bra Barion
CANUCKS RULE!!!
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| spade632 |
Posted - 10/02/2007 : 12:20:00
Off the top of my head...
Heatley - Heater
Alfredsson- Alfie
Spezza - Spezz
Schubert - "Schubie"
Messier - "Mess" or the Moose.
Gretzky - "The Great One" (Obviously)
Crosby - "The Next One"
Frank "Big M" Mahovlich
Pete "Little M" Mahovlich
Yvan "The Roadrunner" Cournoyer
Bobby Hull - The Golden Jet
Steve "Stevie WOnder" Yzerman
"Lucky" Luke Robitaille
Edouard "Newsy" Lalonde
Joey "K.O." Kocur
Bob "Probie" Probert
Stu "the Grim REaper" Grimson
Henri Richard - The Pocket Rocket
"Bashin' Bill Barilko
Don Cherry - Grapes
Francis "King" Clancy
Pavel Bure - The Russian Rocket"
Pat Verbeek - "The Little Ball of hate"
"Captain" Kirk Muller
Lanny "Don't trash the 'stache" McDonald
That's about it off the cuff...
On balance, I'd say the old nicknames were mostly the better ones.
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| willus3 |
Posted - 10/02/2007 : 11:43:04
Here a some from way back.
Jean "Jack" Laviolette 1917-18 MTL D
Didier "Cannonball" Pitre 1919-20 MTL RW
Georges "The Chicoutimi Cucumber" Vezina 1923-24 MTL G
Bobby "Stubby" Rowe 1924-25 BOS D
Lester "The Silver Fox" Patrick 1926-27 NYR D
Cyril "Cy" Denneny 1928-29 BOS LW
Clint "Praying Bennie" Benedict 1929-30 MTM G
Harold "Bullet Joe" Simpson 1930-31 NYA D
Helge "Bulge" Bostrom 1931-32 CHI D
George "Little George" Hainsworth 1933-34 TOR G
Ivan "Ching-A-Ling Chinaman" Johnson 1937-38 NYA D
Eddie "The Edmonton Express" Shore 1938-39 BOS D
Nelson "Old Poison" Stewart 1938-39 NYA C
Reginald "Hooley" Smith 1940-41 NYA C
Aubrey "Dit" Clapper 1941-42 BOS D
Ebbie "Poker Face" Goodfellow 1941-42 DET D
August "Gus" Marker 1941-42 NYA RW
Frank "Raffles" Boucher 1943-44 NYR C
Hector "Toe" Blake 1947-48 MTL LW
Walter "Turk" Broda 1948-49 TOR G
Maurice "Moe" Roberts 1951-52 CHI G
Woodrow "Porky" Dumart 1952-53 BOS LW
Milt "Uncle Miltie" Schmidt 1954-55 BOS C
Ross "Lefty" Wilson 1955-56 TOR G
Maurice "The Rocket" Richard 1956-57 MTL RW
Ted "Scarface" Lindsay 1964-65 DET LW
Johnny "China Wall" Bower 1964-65 TOR G
Gordie "Mr. Hockey" Howe 1970-71 DET RW
Jacques "Jake The Snake" Plante 1971-72 TOR G
Lorne "Gump" Worsley 1973-74 DAL G
Doug "Diesel" Mohns 1974-75 WAS D
John "Chief" Bucyk 1975-76 BOS LW
Eddie "Popsie" Johnston 1975-76 STL G
Gerry "Cheesey" Cheevers 1978-79 BOS G
Jean "Ratty" Ratelle 1978-79 BOS C 38
Stan "Stosh" Mikita 1978-79 CHI C 38
Terry "Harp" Harper 1978-79 DET D 38
Ed "The Shadow" Westfall 1978-79 NYI RW 38
Jean "Ratty" Ratelle 1980-81 BOS C 40
Tony "Tony O" Esposito 1983-84 CHI G
Jerry "King Kong" Korab 1984-85 BUF D 36
Glenn "Chico" Resch 1984-85 NJ G
Billy "The Axe" Smith 1987-88 NYI G
Gilles "The Saviour" Meloche 1987-88 PIT G
Guy "The Flower" Lafleur 1989-90 COL RW
Borje "King" Salming 1989-90 DET D
Guy "The Flower" Lafleur 1990-91 COL RW
Larry "Big Bird" Robinson 1990-91 LA D
Rejean "Let-Em-In" Lemelin 1992-93 BOS G
Dave "Stitch" Taylor 1993-94 LA RW
Kjell "Sammy" Samuelsson 1997-98 PHI D
Ray "Bubba" Bourque 1999-00 COL D
Guy "Carbo" Carbonneau 1999-00 DAL C
Igor "The Professor" Larionov 1999-00 DET C
IChris "Cheli" Chelios 2005-06 DET D
The Chicoutimi Cucumber is my favourite. I'd like to know the story behind it.
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| Saku Steen |
Posted - 05/21/2007 : 09:44:19
I've always called Selanne Salami, sometimes when I'm talking about him I say it without even noticing
what do Calgary and a tea bag have in common- they're both only good for one cup
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When I was little, I always called him that! I thought that was name... |
| stastnysforever |
Posted - 05/20/2007 : 22:02:08
quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailova
Selanne - Salami
Andy McDonald - McDonald Duck
I've always called Selanne Salami, sometimes when I'm talking about him I say it without even noticing
what do Calgary and a tea bag have in common- they're both only good for one cup |
| Mikhailova |
Posted - 05/20/2007 : 15:57:02
Selanne - Salami
Andy McDonald - McDonald Duck
Ilya Bryzgalov - Bryzzie |
| 99pickles |
Posted - 05/18/2007 : 10:57:21
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haha, I remember Yushkevich, we used to call him you-gay-b*tch....
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that one's even better. Ahhh...good times |
| manninm |
Posted - 05/18/2007 : 10:14:16
quote:
Originally posted by 99pickles
We used to have nicknames for so many NHLers when playing Sega hockey. One really good one I remember was for Dimitri Yuskevich. We called him Dimitri You-skate-b*tch. Strangely, that's about the only one I recall. They used to have good ones on Sportsline on Global TV when Jim Tatti was on there calling highlights. Steve Konowalchuk was Steve Killer-whale-tank.
haha, I remember Yushkevich, we used to call him you-gay-b*tch....
Because the demands on a goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie, the biggest enemy is himself." ~Ken Dryden |
| 99pickles |
Posted - 05/18/2007 : 02:03:31
We used to have nicknames for so many NHLers when playing Sega hockey. One really good one I remember was for Dimitri Yuskevich. We called him Dimitri You-skate-b*tch. Strangely, that's about the only one I recall. They used to have good ones on Sportsline on Global TV when Jim Tatti was on there calling highlights. Steve Konowalchuk was Steve Killer-whale-tank.
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| OILINONTARIO |
Posted - 05/17/2007 : 18:17:35
Jaromir- Garry Gagger
Jovanovsky- Blojonobsky or Blo-Jo-Cop |
| manninm |
Posted - 05/17/2007 : 07:03:53
quote:
Originally posted by SlowShot
Ponikarosky(not sure how to spell) - Pony
Kaberle - Kabs
Tucker - That stupied F***** (everytime he does something good or bad)
Gigure- I say lets get Jiggy everytime he makes a save
Bertuzzi - Bert
Ya, i use most of those too...I use a soft o when pronouncing poni....heard it both ways...I also call Bertuzzi Big Bert, same concept...and Chara is Frankenstein, no question.
Because the demands on a goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie, the biggest enemy is himself." ~Ken Dryden |
| SlowShot |
Posted - 05/16/2007 : 21:29:00
Ponikarosky(not sure how to spell) - Pony
Kaberle - Kabs
Tucker - That stupied F***** (everytime he does something good or bad)
Gigure- I say lets get Jiggy everytime he makes a save
Bertuzzi - Bert |
| Mikhailova |
Posted - 05/12/2007 : 08:09:23
Ok, Hank is probably the anglicized nickname then. |
| Guest1603 |
Posted - 05/12/2007 : 07:05:33
Henke is the swedish nickname for Henrik. Hank sounds American to me. |
| Mikhailova |
Posted - 05/12/2007 : 06:44:51
Hey 1603, since you're Swedish I thought I'd ask you this: Is Hank a nickname for Henrik? A lot of announcers seem to call Lundqvist and other players with the name Henrik "Hank", so I was just wondering. |
| Guest1603 |
Posted - 05/12/2007 : 03:30:02
Some nicknames of swedish players (swedish) :
Peter Forsberg Foppa
Mats Sundin Sudden
Nicklas Lidström Lidas
Henrik Zetterberg Zäta
Henrik Lundquist Lunkan
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| number1leafsfan |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 18:58:57
quote:
Originally posted by Canucks Man
I call Brent Sopel - The Elf
CANUCKS RULE!!!
Get The Towels Out Guys PLAYOFFS!!!
i like that one he really does look like a elf
I am what I am- Sid The Kid |
| Canucks Man |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 18:53:20
I call Brent Sopel - The Elf
CANUCKS RULE!!!
Get The Towels Out Guys PLAYOFFS!!!
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| Mikhailova |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 18:52:32
quote:
Originally posted by fly4apuckguy
Sidney Crosby - "The Wizard of Cros"
Lol I call him that too.
Other nicknames I use:
Matthew Lombardi - Matthew Lardbody (doesn't really fit since he's so fast, but if he does something like score the winning goal against your team, calling him that is a good way to let out fustration)
Daniel Girardi - Giarrdia
Zdeno Chara - The Super Slovak |
| Guest1443 |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 17:20:24
kristian huselius: juice
daymond langkow: langks |
| fly4apuckguy |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 16:12:49
I called Mario "Super Slo-Mo" in his final days. Not nice, but it fit.
Sidney Crosby - "The Wizard of Cros"
Jarome Iginla - "Iggy"
Gonchar - I call him "Glaci-ar" because he skates like a glacier
Kovalchuk - "Upchuk"
Jeremy Roenick - "Buble" because he's always singing
Datsyk - "Dat-sucks"
Lindros - "The Big E", "E-train"
That's all I can think of right now...
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Gretz |
| FROM_RUSSIA |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 15:42:27
Oh, I see. Thanks  |
| Mikhailova |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 15:11:02
quote:
Originally posted by FROM_RUSSIA
Why you call all on nicknames? Where sense? At us in Russia it is not accepted in relation to players.
That's just what we do here in North America. It's kind of like a pet name, a bit like your diminutives in Russian, except they're usually based on the last name. |
| FROM_RUSSIA |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 11:17:31
quote:
Originally posted by Babinov
In Russian taked nickname only crimers(on rus- gopniki,prestupniki...) on a prison. 
Yes, it I have forgotten to tell =)) Thanx |
| Babinov |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 11:14:34
In Russian taked nickname only crimers(on rus- gopniki,prestupniki...) on a prison.
P O C C I/I 9I__B II E P E g |
| FROM_RUSSIA |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 10:52:16
Why you call all on nicknames? Where sense? At us in Russia it is not accepted in relation to players. |
| stastnysforever |
Posted - 05/10/2007 : 17:00:16
I call lemieux Super Mario
Sakic GI Joe
Campbell Soup
Ryan Smyth Cryin Ryan
Mactavish Mctee
Petrovicky Ronald Mcdonald |
| Mikhailova |
Posted - 05/10/2007 : 16:32:16
I like to call Vladislav Tretjak "Vladdy-T". Don't ask why, it just makes me laugh. |
| -oil-country- |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 19:03:35
It's not really a nickname but I like to prnounce Sykora's name Seee-kora, I don't know why it's just fun lol.
Others Are:
Ovechkin- Ovi-One
T.Connoly- Fishy, Only in NHL 07 because in his picture he looks like a fish because his lips look really big and puckered.
Shanahan- Shanny Hanny
Datsyuk- Datsyukian
Marleau- Patty M
Ovechkin>Crosby |
| 1 Crosby fan |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 17:53:27
I thought it was Alexander the gr8 and i call Maxim Afinogenov Afino
Good Playoffs Canucks Better luck next season now i cheer the WINGS AND DEVILS GO |
