Favorite NHL player names

[skp]

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

[Aces McGee]

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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

[MarkSummers]

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.

[cdxx]

Vyacheslav Tretyak (my childhood hero)

[skp]

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

[cdxx]

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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.

[talentdeficit]

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

[Pudge714]

Zarley Zalapski.

[T-God]

I still <3 Zdeno

[skp]

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