Hockey Names That Go Hard
Just a fun little post of some hockey player names that I think are really cool or fascinating.
Kristopher Pierre Joseph Irwin Letang - Tanger, one question, why so many middle names?
Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson - Go off, viking king!
Oliver Oscar Emanuel Ekman-Larsson
Rickard Lars Gunnar Roland Rakell
Cal Clutterbuck
Nino Niederreiter
Zemgus Girgensons
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Jack St.Ivany - romance movie character much?
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Leon Draisaitl
Mirolsav Satan (yeah, I know it was shah-tahn, but it's still cool)
Rick Rypien (rest in peace, Rypper)
Andreas Athanasiou
Justin Abdelkader (originating from Arabic! Abdul-Qadir)
Jeff Beukeboom
Kevin Shattenkirk
Juraj Slafkovsky
Arber Xhekaj
Darius Kasparaitis
Slater Koekkoek
Ilya Kovalchuk
Alexander Ovechkin
Evgeni Malkin
Jack Studnicka
Rod Brind'Amor
Zach Whitecloud
Elias Fredrik Pettersson - if EK is a viking king, Petey is a viking prince
Teddy Blueger
Magnus Hellberg - love ya, Chopper!
Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Elvis Merzlikins
Igor Shesterkin
Mika Zibanejad
Carter Verhaeghe
Shayne Ghostisbehere
Sergei Gonchar
Zach-Aston Reese
Thatcher Douglas Demko
Garnet Hathaway
Gabriel Landeskog - awesome name for a gorgeous man.
Sidney Patrick Crosby - Irish af and I love it sm.
Patrice Bergeron
Brad Marchand
Daniel Hans Sedin and Henrik Lars Sedin - my beloved super twins!
Zdeno Chara - brief, blunt, and fucking massive.
Andrew Mangiapane
Mats Zuccarello
Teuvo Teravainen
Sergei Bobrovsky
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Rasmus Ristolainen
Dustin Byfuglien - no idea how you get buff-lin from that, but oh well.
Joel Eriksson-Ek
Jonathan Huberdeau - also sounds like a hockey booktok mc.
Kailer Yamamoto
Dakota Joshua - my beloved
Evgeny Kuznetsov
Vincent Desharnais- welcome to Vancouver, Vinny!!
Taro Tsujimoto - if you know, you know!
Henri Jokiharju
Kasperi Kapanen - cat boy extraordinaire!
Jarome Iginla - I know he has like, a million, middle names but I'm not typing all that out.
Nils Hoglander - or, pardon me: Nils - Big Hog - Hoglander!!!
Jonathan Quick - sounds like a superhero!
Rob Klinkhammer
Anze Kopitar
Jaromir Jagr - a badass name for an equally badass man.
Bill Quackenbush
Jordin Tootoo
Jonathan Cheechoo
Radek Bonk, and his son, Oliver Bonk
Jonathan Lekkerimaki - our baby swede!
Gino Odjik - rest in peace, big man!
Ulf Niklas Alexander Edler - miss you, Eagle!! Please come home to us, dad!
Bowie Horvat - Take care of him, Islanders.
If anyone has any others, chuck them in the replies or reblogs!
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Where every player played during the 2012-13 NHL lockout: Detroit
CHL: Kyle Quincey (Denver Cutthroats)
Czech Extraliga: Jakub Kindl (H.K. Č.S.O.B. Pojišťovna Pardubice)
EIHL: Drew Miller (Braehead Clan)
HockeyAllsvenskan: Jonathan Ericsson (Hockeyklubb Vita Hästen/Södertälje Sportklubb)
KHL: Pavel Datsyuk (K.K. C.S.K.A. Moscow)
Liiga: Valtteri Filppula (Helsingin Jokerit)
NCAA: Danny DeKeyser (Western Michigan University Broncos)
Slovak Extraliga: Tomáš Tatar (Š.H.K. 37 Piešťany)
NL: Damien Brunner (E.V. Zug) & Henrik Zetterberg (E.V. Zug)
AHL: Joakim Andersson (Grand Rapids Griffins), Kent Huskins (Norfolk Admirals), Brian Lashoff (Grand Rapids Griffins), Gustav Nyquist (Grand Rapids Griffins) & Brendan Smith (Grand Rapids Griffins)
Didn't Play: Justin Abdelkader, Todd Bertuzzi, Daniel Cleary, Carlo Colaiacovo, Patrick Eaves, Cory Emmerton, Johan Franzén, Jonas Gustavsson, Jimmy Howard III, Hans Kronwall, Jordin Tootoo & Ian White
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Oh I just adored Jordon Tootoo and my heart always went out to him. He had such a hard life and I was always afraid we’d hear about him like Derek or Wade. I’m so glad to see he’s doing well now. That piece made me cry.
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Where every player played during the 2004-05 NHL lockout: Nashville
Belarusian Extraliga: Sergejs Žoltoks (H.K. Riga 2000)
NL: Kimmo Timonen (C.D.H. Lugano)
SEL: Kimmo Timonen (Brynäs I.F.)
SL: David Legwand (E.C. Basel)
Czech Extraliga: Martin Erat (H.K. Hamé Zlín) & Tomáš Vokoun (H.K. Znojmeští Orli)
ECHL: Shane Hnidy (Florida Everblades) & Jeremy Stevenson (South Carolina Stingrays)
GET: Scott Hartnell (Vålerenga Ishockey) & Chris Mason (Vålerenga Ishockey)
Liiga: Marek Židlický (H.I.F.K.) & Tomáš Vokoun (H.I.F.K.)
Mestis: Adam Hall (Kalevan Pallo) & Kimmo Timonen (Kalevan Pallo)
MLH: Jamie Allison (Cambridge Hornets) & Scott Walker (Cambridge Hornets/Dundas Real McCoys)
AHL: Mark Eaton (Grand Rapids Griffins), Vern Fiddler (Milwaukee Admirals), Simon Gamache (Milwaukee Admirals), Dan Hamhuis (Milwaukee Admirals), Andrew Hutchinson (Milwaukee Admirals), Wyatt Smith (Milwaukee Admirals), Jordin Tootoo (Milwaukee Admirals) & Scottie Upshall (Milwaukee Admirals)
Didn't Play: Luke Bombardir, Greg Johnson, Raymond Murray & Steve Sullivan
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Team Names And Intention
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Team names are one thing. But this has to go.
With major league sports attempting to save a pandemic ravaged season by reducing the number of games that will be played in a bubble with no fans present, other issues are being thrown into the mix. I write of team names that are, or perhaps are not, offensive to indigenous people.
… the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has decreed that teams…
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im an essential worker and my job(s) veers between ‘chaos’ and ‘nothing to do’ so in the latter times i started drawing hockey players. (why? i don’t know. my brain goblin is only accepting a very limited pool of things it’ll turn into dopamine these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
i’ve drawn so many now that i actually think there’s been a noticeable improvement. these are the first and some redraws i just finished.
(part 2 -- carey price, pascal dupuis, ryan reaves, jordan nolan)
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