Gary Thorne's Mispronunciations

[Kairi Zaide]

Pacioretty = PAKOretty
Pouliot = Poulio

Desharnais = Desjardins, but with a n instead of a d.

 

[KesselPhaneufTML]

BING BANG BOOM, there it goes off the metal.

Lol don't forget "He looked like Paul Bunyan!"

 

[goosh]

Lol don't forget "He looked like Paul Bunyan!"

Haha, that's especially annoying when you barely touched the guy.

But, I think this is the WORST of all of them.

Wayne Simmonds = Wayne "SAI-minds"

 

[Zen Arcade]

Aleksey Morotsov
Tom Potty

 

[mintsauce]

And this is why he needs to go. I'm sure he and Bill Clement aren't bad people, and for NHL 08 and 09 I actually thought their commentary was an improvement over previous titles in the series, but they have outstayed their welcome.

Aside from the pronunciation issues and fluffed lines, I have honestly never heard another hockey announcer in the real world go on about "scoring chances" quite so much as Gary. He'll basically say it as many times as possible during a game, even when there isn't one or there might just be the slightest possibility of one happening.

I think it's time EA looked into hiring Doc Emrick or Pat Foley (not Jim Hughson, he's had his turn). It would just make it sound so much more like a real hockey game.

 

[kdfsjljklgjfg]

Lol don't forget "He looked like Paul Bunyan!"

Finish finish finish, and we're not talking about the country!

 

[DCDM]

BING BANG BOOM, there it goes off the metal.

That's the worst. So annoying...

 

[Andrew Knoll]

I am not sure if it is still an issue in NHL 11 but in NHL 10 he always called Tyler Myers Mayers like Jamal Mayers.

I think they are relatively good overall for a video game, varied sayings and yeah the stuff is corny but even if it weren't it would be after playing 2000 games.

My favorite game announcer had to be the year Bill Walton did the NBA 2K series, so much potential there that they didn't utilize, too.

If I had to pick a new tandem for NHL, I'll go with a dark horse, Melrose and Buccigross. Buccigross elevates his intensity with the game's intensity like no other, Melrose could do the goofy color stuff and be funny, better than he is at his real-life job, I am sure.

 

[KesselPhaneufTML]

I am not sure if it is still an issue in NHL 11 but in NHL 10 he always called Tyler Myers Mayers like Jamal Mayers.

I think they are relatively good overall for a video game, varied sayings and yeah the stuff is corny but even if it weren't it would be after playing 2000 games.

My favorite game announcer had to be the year Bill Walton did the NBA 2K series, so much potential there that they didn't utilize, too.

If I had to pick a new tandem for NHL, I'll go with a dark horse, Melrose and Buccigross. Buccigross elevates his intensity with the game's intensity like no other, Melrose could do the goofy color stuff and be funny, better than he is at his real-life job, I am sure.

I haven't heard this one, i'm pretty sure they fixed it.

 

[Bar South]

Matt Stajan- Matt Stayin'
Alexander Semin- Alexander Seamen

 

[xEchox]

Dale Wiese - Dale Wise

 

[FamousTee]

PK Subban - Subbon
Max Pacioretty - Pakoretty

 

[MasterDecoy]

PK Subban - Subbon
Max Pacioretty - Pakoretty

the pakoretty one kills me

but the worst is desharnais. EA messed up something because he'll randomly pronounce it one of two ways: either as "de-shar-nay" or "du-shirn-nin"

what's this i don't even

 

[Kane One]

It's funny that he pronounces Byfuglien right.

 

[MasterDecoy]

It's funny that he pronounces Byfuglien right.

 

[mintsauce]

It's funny that he pronounces Byfuglien right.

In '09 he didn't, he pronounced it "Bye-few-glin". That was obviously corrected later, but still, it should have been right first time.

 

[NYRPat21]

Evgeny Grachev= Evgeny Ga-Chev

 

[FamousTee]

the pakoretty one kills me

but the worst is desharnais. EA messed up something because he'll randomly pronounce it one of two ways: either as "de-shar-nay" or "du-shirn-nin"

what's this i don't even

I've heard him pronounce Desharnais 3 different ways. Including the correct way. I was just thinking "call him one thing and one thing only, not three different things in the same game"

 

[CutOnDime97]

Matt Carly

 

[Dragon Priest]

Can't remember in which game, may have been NHL 2008 when it was Jim Hughson, but more than likely NHL 2009, Cam Ward was Antero Nittymaki. He'd go "Save by Nittymaki" when it was Cam Ward!!

Some of them are just brutal. An-TROP-ov is the worst IMO.

Also, if Gary Thorne calls hockey games and supposedly KNOWS hockey, he should know how to pronounce the players names correctly. Don't you think?

 

[Dragon Priest]

Oh and when the Penguins beat the Flyers, Gary goes "And the two time Stanley Cup winning Pittsburgh Penguins....." And Clement adds in something like, "Well that is how many Cups the Flyers have won, 2"
Last time I checked the Penguins have won 3 Stanley Cups!!

 

[TF97]

Niklas Hjalmarsson - Niklas Almarsson

Jamal Mayers - Jemel Myers

 

[Rob Nieds work ethic]

Persson becomes "Persón"

Finish finish finish, and we're not talking about the country!

That is the worst one.

 

[Backlund]

Matt Stajan- Matt Stayin'
Alexander Semin- Alexander Seamen

The first time I heard them mispronounce Semin's name I was on the floor. I think they should get some new announcers for NHL 12.

 

[mintsauce]

Niklas Hjalmarsson - Niklas Almarsson

This is one that most announcers actually get wrong. They tend to pronounce it "Jahl-merson", when the J is actually silent or more of a Y sound. It should be "Hyahl-merson".

I've even heard one announcer say "Yahl-mul-son". I forget who it was but it sounded like he had a mouth full of marbles.