CdnWingsFanEh 2 Report post Posted February 20, 2009 My personal favourite... Rex Hudler... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ComradeWasabi 109 Report post Posted February 20, 2009 My personal favourite... Rex Hudler... Hell yes, Rex! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeymom1960 5,107 Report post Posted February 20, 2009 Well I've heard the guys call Cleary, Bear and Franzen they sometimes call Grumpy. lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pucker4fischer 0 Report post Posted February 20, 2009 Hockey fans, media, players, and coaches need to STOP with the nicknames. The nicknames they give are always extremely piss-poor attempts at a nickname i.e. Dats, Drapes, Kronner, Homer, Sammy, Malts, Kopie. What happened to all of the cool names in hockey? Wayne Gretzky - The Great One Pavel Bure - The Russian Rocket Marcel Dionne - Little Beaver Tie Domi - The Albanian Assassin Bobby Hull - The Golden Jet Igor Larionov - The Professor I guess we have the Mule....that's cool. But its no Pat Verbeek aka Little Ball of Hate!!!!! I think these cool names are more like titles or introductions than nicknames. Like another poster pointed out, you don't hear them used in conversation so much. I can understand the annoyance though. I went to the Caps/Wings game in D.C. this year, and there was this adult woman sitting behind me who insisted on putting a -y after every player's name. Ovey, Flashy, Brashy (Bashear), Travey, Kozzy, Feddy (Fedorov), Backy (Backstrom)...the whole team was pretty much the "Capys" to her. Not to mention, she was cheering in a high pitched, overexaggerated voice. I was going to kill her but, I had to throw up first from the nausea she was causing me. It was that and her male counterpart calling everybody by their first name: "way to go Donald!", "way to get em Alex!" or how seriously po'd he was when "Alexander" (Semin) took a couple penalties etc. Which was, to a slightly lesser extent, annoying I don't really mind so much if the nicknames are used conservatively or slip in once in a while; but if I'm in another team's building and listening to unknowledgable fans who cheer at calling a time out...I can't take it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Secret 304 Report post Posted February 20, 2009 Hahaha what a dumb thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
