Which of the 16 Playoff Teams Has the 10 Hardest Last Names to Spell

[Tofveve]

I'll throw my vote in on the Florida Panthers (not all names may be playing this is just from the roster list on sportsnet.ca). There are several difficult- to- spell last name lists thats for sure:

- Balinskis
- Bjornfot
- Gadjovich
- Luostarinen
- Mikkola
- Okuliar
- Sourdif
- Stolarz
- Verhaeghe
- Vilmanis

What team has the top 10 hardest to spell last names let alone pronounce in your opinion?

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[Ratatoskr]

You've misspelt Björnfot.

 

[jetsforever]

Seems like it's probably Florida

Here's Winnipeg for reference:
Ehlers, Gustafsson, Jonsson-Fjällby, Monahan, Namestnikov, Niederreiter, Scheifele, Schmidt, Brossoit, Hellebuyck

 

[NorthStar4Canes]

Does Skjei count as 2?

 

[Tofveve]

Does Skjei count as 2?

Carolina is right up there IMO. Them and Colorado.

 

[PullHard]

My working theory is if we all changed our last names to a chaotic sequence of 12-15 letters, our chances of playing in the NHL would go up roughly 1000%

 

[a mangy Meowth]

I don't think Colorado competes here.

Nichushkin, Mittelstadt, Lehkonen, Georgiev, sure.

Annunen? Kiviranta? Kovalenko? Yeah, those probably count. Maybe Toews too.

But after that, all we've got are like Duhaime, Cogliano, and a bunch of easy ones.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

I think Liljegren is pretty rough if you don't know theres a j in there

 

[hangman005]

Just going the other way with this, but I one day would like to see a team where everyone is named Smith, (Honestly it doesn't matter what the surname is) just to listen to the commentary.... added bonus if several of them have the same first name.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Just going the other way with this, but I one day would like to see a team where everyone is named Smith, (Honestly it doesn't matter what the surname is) just to listen to the commentary.... added bonus if several of them have the same first name.

Smith, to Jones, back to Smith. Over to Jones. Jones dumps it down low to Williams, who centers to Wilson who scores!

 

[hangman005]

Smith, to Jones, back to Smith. Over to Jones. Jones dumps it down low to Williams, who centers to Wilson who scores!

Smith to Smith, he passes to Smith but a different one. He loses it but Smith gets it back, he one times it Smith, but it hits his own man in Smith on the way

 

[Tofveve]

Just going the other way with this, but I one day would like to see a team where everyone is named Smith, (Honestly it doesn't matter what the surname is) just to listen to the commentary.... added bonus if several of them have the same first name.

It feels like there's a The Smiths joke in here somewhere

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Smith to Smith, he passes to Smith but a different one. He loses it but Smith gets it back, he one times it Smith, but it hits his own man in Smith on the way

Or maybe a team with all profession-based names.

Baker, Tanner, Cooper, Miller, Butcher, Fletcher, Brewer, Carter, Tailor, Cobbler

 

[bh53]

Easy to spell - Miller, Cole, Myers, Juulsen, Demko, DeSmith, Friedman, Lindholm, Garland, Hoglander, Joshua, Suter

Might cause some difficulty - Hughes, Aman, Boeser, Blueger, Hughes, Pettersson, Aman, Hughes, Zadorov, Hronek

Harder - Mikheyev, Podkolzin, SIlovs

Can't spell without Google - Di Giuseppe

Pretty easy to spell Canucks players names

 

[geebster]

Hellebuyck is impossible to spell. Or was til my phone finally accepted that thats a combination of letters I mean to type. Now it autofills it for me.

 

[Drops of Jupiter]

Easy to spell - Miller, Cole, Myers, Juulsen, Demko, DeSmith, Friedman, Lindholm, Garland, Hoglander, Joshua, Suter

Might cause some difficulty - Hughes, Aman, Boeser, Blueger, Hughes, Pettersson, Aman, Hughes, Zadorov, Hronek

Harder - Mikheyev, Podkolzin, SIlovs

Can't spell without Google - Di Giuseppe

Pretty easy to spell Canucks players names

You forgot to list Hughes and Aman

 

[GMR]

You've misspelt Björnfot.

Wasn’t he on The Last Kingdom?

 

[Xelebes]

Or maybe a team with all profession-based names.

Baker, Tanner, Cooper, Miller, Butcher, Fletcher, Brewer, Carter, Tailor, Cobbler

Schneider, Lefebrve, Smid, Kovalchuk, Boucher, Fuhr, Muller, Melnyk, Bondar, Bodker

 

[Tofveve]

Does Skjei count as 2?

Actually if I'm being honest Kotkaniemi's name (after his big hit on Clutterbuck) inspired this thread, as I gave up trying to spell his name in the live GDT that day lol.

Then last night I got Verhaeghe's name wrong after looking it up even and I was like that's it, I'm making a thread.

Easy to spell - Miller, Cole, Myers, Juulsen, Demko, DeSmith, Friedman, Lindholm, Garland, Hoglander, Joshua, Suter

Might cause some difficulty - Hughes, Aman, Boeser, Blueger, Hughes, Pettersson, Aman, Hughes, Zadorov, Hronek

Harder - Mikheyev, Podkolzin, SIlovs

Can't spell without Google - Di Giuseppe

Pretty easy to spell Canucks players names

I would have got Jewelson wrong

 

[24 others]

Smith, to Jones, back to Smith. Over to Jones. Jones dumps it down low to Williams, who centers to Wilson who scores!

That's how kids these days imagine the O6 era.

Great thread, by the way

 

[a mangy Meowth]

That's how kids these days imagine the O6 era.

Great thread, by the way

Nah those guys were named crazy shit like Blip Harrington or Gump Shoebottom or Frilly Williamson

 

[DitchMarner]

The Oilers and all those hoser names that are difficult to spell and pronounce.

B... Brown? What the hell? Named after a color?

Kane. What is this guy... Biblical?

Hyman. Why is that y in there? Go with an actual vowel.

McDavid. You're the best player in the League... how about having a name that's easy for the NHL's world wide fan base? Like MacDonaldsonikonvski.

 

[Mitch nylander]

If we include prospects:

I'd go Carolina

Carolina
Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Pyotr Kochetkov
Teuvo Teravainen
Andrei Svechnikov
Stanislav Yarovoi
Aleksi Heimosalmi
Ruslan Khazheyev
Brady Skjei
Jake Guentzel
Tuukka Tieksola

 

[thekernel]

I think Washington has to be the hardest because I don't know half the players on the damn team.

Just a gruesome list of names

 

[Szechwan]

Bro why are we making offseason threads during the playoffs?