When I was a wee skater, my teachers used to say "just sound it out" when I was struggling to spell a word which works great if you're trying to spell "Mike Bossy". How do Finish teachers teach kids to spell with names like Pekka Rautakallio?
Category: names
Great Goalie (Names)
Tony Esposito or Rogatien (Rogie) Vachon? (Although my personal favourite for a goalie was "Red Light Racicot")
When Your Line-mates Start Being Called “The Sundin Sisters”…
...it's not a good thing. The Martin brothers have gone by the nickname "the Sedin twins" since beginning of this half in the W. Daniel and Henrik have had a bit of a brotherly squabble going on throughout the past two months, much to the delight of their teammate. At times, there has been …
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The Draft
Blue is back. The second-half draft for the W was held this afternoon and after much sniping and trading of scouting information the way fishermen trade info about where the fish are biting (hint: fisherman don't do this), the four teams were divied up. After studying Blue's success from the first half carefully, I spotted …
Lou Angotti, Dennis Kearns and the Kansas City Scouts
After our WOHL game tonite, Mike Paola asked if anyone remembered the name Lou Angotti. Given the age of the guys in the room, most did. I immediately remembered him as a Minnesota North Star (a team he never played for) while most of the others nailed him correctly as a Black Hawk for …
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Hound Dog Kelly
The Broad Street Bullies had their share of colourful characters. One of these was Bob "Hound Dog" Kelly. A scrapper to go with a bunch of other Flyer scrappers, Kelly played a lot like Tie Domi in later years with the Leafs. I remember him skating at crazy speeds chasing opponents "doggedly". Thus the …
Great Names in Hockey
I've written other posts in this blog about funny hockey player nicknames. Here's a couple more. Remember Alex Mogilny? Started with the Sabres after defecting to the West (during the World Junior Christmas Tournament, which was played in North America that year) shortly before the wall came down. He earned the nickname "Choo-Choo" because …
“Hail Cesare!”
Yes, the fans used to actually chant that when Cesare Maniago, the Minnesota North Stars main man in the cage in their early years was on his game. Is there a greater name than Cesare Maniago? I think not. I remember this goalie from the 70's mostly because of his elegant name and a little …
Chasing Larry
I felt great before last Thursday night's game. I didn't over-eat at dinner, had a quick nap before the game, went hard in the warm-up and felt like all the ingredients were in the mix for having a great go with the dreaded white team, the team Larry plays for. However, in the end, the …
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