Favorite NHL player names
 

Gaston Gingras
Clint Malarchuk
Petr Svuboda
Lindsay Ruff
Ron Tugnutt
Andy Moog
Jari Kurri
Mike Krushelniski
Yvon Corn-way-ay (don't ask me to spell it)
John Wensink
Tony Esposito (gets the nod over Phil)
Teemu Selanne

(these are just off the top of my head; I could do this all night)

And the Number One NHL Player Name of all time is:

Patrick Roo-WAH!

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Radek Bonk

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And might as well say Miroslav Satan since it's coming eventually

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Lindsay Ruff
Yvon Corn-way-ay (don't ask me to spell it)


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It's Yvan Cournoyer, and Lindy Ruff

My personal favourites:

Darius Kasparaitis
Sergei Gonchar

They both sound like awful diseases from Africa.

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Hakan Loob
Murray Bannerman
Theoren Fleury
Igor Kravchuk

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Mark Messier
Esa Tikkanen
Ulf Samuelsson
Alexei Kovalev

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Hakan Loob

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Nice call.

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Oleg Saprykin

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Sounds freaky...

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Wow, I can't believe no one's said Antti Laaksonen.

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Walter Tkaczuk (pronounced Ka-chook)
Ilka Sinisalo (pronounced Sin-a-sigh-lo)

Borje Salming ("Borje will never bore ya")
Gilbert Perreault ("paro")

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Speaking of sports figures, what's goin' on here:

Tiger Woods but not Phil Mickelson
Mark Messier but not Wayne Gretzky
Mike Bossy but not Guy Lafleur
Bernie Parent but not Ken Dryden
Steve Young but not Joe Montana
Bobby Hull but not Maurice Richard

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And might as well say Miroslav Satan since it's coming eventually

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I have a mildly amusing story about Miroslav Satan.

I have never been a huge hockey fan, but that hasn't stopped me -- and several others in my shoes, I suspect -- from being a huge hockey video game fan.

I was playing NHL 90-something on my computer one night, and I used the replay feature to check out a goal or something. The game displayed the name of the player who had the puck, and at one point it was passed to this guy, whom I had never heard of. It was a bit unnerving to have the word "Satan" pop up on my screen.

-McGee

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Darius Kasparitis clearly wins this one. As Zurvan has mentioned, it clearly sounds like a terrible disease.

Some other good ones are Maxim Afinogenov and Nikolai Khabibulin. Two current Nashville defenders, Marek Ziclicky and Kimmo Timonen are also kind of fun.

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Vyacheslav Tretyak (my childhood hero)

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I think it was Vladislav Tretiak. There was however also a Vyacheslav Fetisov.

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I think it was Vladislav Tretiak. There was however also a Vyacheslav Fetisov.

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damn it you are right. should have just put down what i remembered. slava tretyak.

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about half of these are good ole prairie boys. the rest are euros.

marek malik
boyd kane
antero niittymaki
khristopher letang
mark mowers
christobal huet
bates battaglia
carlo colaiacovo
garnet exelby
shane hnidy
glen metropolit
rico fata
lasse kukonen
radim vrbata
dion phaneuf
wojtek wolski
jussi markkanen
anze kopitar
enver lisin
mike zigomanis
vesa toskala

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Zarley Zalapski.

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I still <3 Zdeno

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Zarley is a great catch. Can't believe no one else came up with that one.

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Valeri Zelepukin

Per Djoos

Jeff Beukeboom

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Jeff Beukeboom

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That last one works best if you don't know the correct Dutch pronounciation.

"Boo-Kaboom" sounds so much better than (roughly) "Book-a-Bome"

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Some great names already mentioned. I would add..

ESA TIKKANEN (sp?)
ULF SAMUELSON

Also when Steve Yzerman and Paul Yzerbart (sp?) were on the same team that was LOL.

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Zarley Zalapski.

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Now dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

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And might as well say Miroslav Satan since it's coming eventually

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If he played for NJ his jersey would sell like crazy.

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Actual God,
Good ones.

NoodleMan,

My friends once saw a guy with a Satan jersey with the number 666.

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This thread should be called "LOL EASTERN EUROPE" or something.

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Actual God,
Good ones.

NoodleMan,

My friends once saw a guy with a Satan jersey with the number 666.

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guess who's yahoo player profile this is? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/666

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Actual God,
Good ones.

NoodleMan,

My friends once saw a guy with a Satan jersey with the number 666.

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guess who's yahoo player profile this is? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/666

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My first instinct was to check and see if it was an alphabetical coincidence of some kind so I checked 665 and 667. Nope, someone did that on purpose.

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jaromir jagr
randy robitaille
RJ umberger

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Jordin Tootoo

Come on people

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Pokey Reddick:

http://www.lasvegasice.com/images/PokeyPhoto.jpg

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Steve Konowalchuk
Vincent Lecavlier
Olie Jokinen
Jyrki Lumme

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Mario Marois

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Jean Francois Jomphe
Goston Gingras
Hakan Loob
Reijo Ruotsalainen
Bates Battaglia
Jean Jacques Daigneualt

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Jordin Tootoo

Come on people

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Jonathan Cheechoo

Darren Puppa
garth butcher

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If he played for NJ his jersey would sell like crazy.

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As the Captain, of course. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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pete peeters
fedor fedorov

and my favorite since it's so damn close to my name: jonas hoglund

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Garth Butcher

EDIT: Dang, beaten to it by 3 posts.

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Lot of good selections so far:

Per Svartvadet
Sasha Lakovic
Evgeny Davydov
Vadim Sharifijanov
Blair Atcheynum

If I weren't dead tired I'd've come up with 10 others.