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Sports: Hockey Nicknames

Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 View Comments

Part of the luster and romance of hockey are the names of the players. Aside from baseball, hockey lends itself to having cool names for players. The French Canadian names, and the European names just roll off your tounge, and scream COOL. However I've noticed that there is something missing in hockey, and that's the famous nicknames of the past.

The Road Runner
The Great One
Super Mario
Boom Boom
The Rocket
Mr. Hockey
The Golden Jet
The Russian Rocket
The Finnish Flash
The Flower
The Little Ball of Hate
King Richard
Mr. Zero
Beezer
The Rat
BlackJack
Cujo
Chico
Tony O
Gump
The Flying Frenchmen
The Triple Crown Line
The GAG Line
Moose
Blackjack
Ace
The Rat

Now the nicknames arent so plentiful. Alex Ovechkin is Alexander the Great, but then again so was Alexander Mogilny. Not cool when you have to share names with someone.

We are stuck with just mini-Canadian-abbreviations of names - Malts for Maltby, Ozzie for Osgood, Chelly for Chelios, Murph for Murphy, Drapes for Dapers. I'm supposed to like this, because it's the Canadian way so I'm told. Well I don't. It reminds me of texting when you shorten words and such to make the sentences easier to type. It drives me NUTS.

I want my nicknames back, and I want them now.
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