OT: Nicknames/Slang explained

[Minny Shinny]

This is silly...why would anyone call him this

Silly, eh? So you're a big Seguin fan, ya say?


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Anyhow, Perhaps those fans who aren't in New England and maybe overseas where hockey isn't played and doesn't hear the terminology and nicknames on a regular basis as what is thrown around in discussion here (noting OP is from Australia and perhaps new to the team and the sport) something like this topic is helpful. Some of the names that are "obvious" to us may not be to others, especially considering regional influences.

McQuaid would be Mullet
Boychuk = Johnny Rocket (again, that's a pretty western phrase)
Tuukka = milkcrates
Kelly = Cage
Marchand = Rat
Paille = Pie
Campbell = Soup

Kind of off the top of my head as I sit here bored to death at a ballroom in Syracuse.

 

[member 96824]

There's a Johnny Rockets in Portland, Me

 

[ashnathan]

Bogo? Anyone?

 

[Alicat]

Bogo? Anyone?

As in Zach?

 

[Artemis]

Silly, eh? So you're a big Seguin fan, ya say?


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Anyhow, Perhaps those fans who aren't in New England and maybe overseas where hockey isn't played and doesn't hear the terminology and nicknames on a regular basis as what is thrown around in discussion here (noting OP is from Australia and perhaps new to the team and the sport) something like this topic is helpful. Some of the names that are "obvious" to us may not be to others, especially considering regional influences.

McQuaid would be Mullet
Boychuk = Johnny Rocket (again, that's a pretty western phrase)
Tuukka = milkcrates
Kelly = Cage
Marchand = Rat
Paille = Pie
Campbell = Soup

Kind of off the top of my head as I sit here bored to death at a ballroom in Syracuse.

McQuaid will always be Darth Quaider to me.

I liked when Thornton called Bergeron "Irish fighter Patrick Cleary."

 

[Alicat]

McQuaid will always be Darth Quaider to me.

I liked when Thornton called Bergeron "Irish fighter Patrick Cleary."

Patrick Cleary is seriously one of the best nicknames on the team.

They may be stupid to some but you can't forget Seidenmoose or Beaker.

 

[Minny Shinny]

McQuaid will always be Darth Quaider to me.

I liked when Thornton called Bergeron "Irish fighter Patrick Cleary."

Yeah, Darth is a good one too.

I suppose there's also team terminology, like the 9th floor (of the Garden) where the scratches/injured dudes hang out during games.

I spent about 40 minutes explaining the concept of cycling and "roll four lines" to a friend the other night. She's incredibly sports-savvy but is new to hockey and wanted to learn. I'll never knock someone who wants to learn and asks good questions....regardless of how long they've been following.

Hockey needs more fans, regardless of their level of knowledge, not less.

 

[Artemis]

Yeah, Darth is a good one too.

I suppose there's also team terminology, like the 9th floor (of the Garden) where the scratches/injured dudes hang out during games.

I spent about 40 minutes explaining the concept of cycling and "roll four lines" to a friend the other night. She's incredibly sports-savvy but is new to hockey and wanted to learn. I'll never knock someone who wants to learn and asks good questions....regardless of how long they've been following.

Hockey needs more fans, regardless of their level of knowledge, not less.

Definitely. I had an older man sit next to me at a Bruins game once and he knew absolutely nothing - had never been to a hockey game before. He kept asking me questions about the game itself and the players and I was happy to answer them.

So much more fun than the yobbos proclaiming their ignorance at the top of their lungs.

 

[ashnathan]

I don't know, someone referred to a Bogo last night, thats what inspired this thread. I presume they were talking about someone on D as that was the topic of discussion what im at a loss.

 

[Alicat]

I don't know, someone referred to a Bogo last night, thats what inspired this thread. I presume they were talking about someone on D as that was the topic of discussion what im at a loss.

They were talking about Zach Bogosian from Winnipeg. Bogosian = Bogo

 

[chippa13*]

Bogo is

buy 1 get 1 for free

 

[Alicat]

Bogo is

buy 1 get 1 for free

Not around here it doesn't.

 

[talkinaway]

So, I've tried searching for it, but I can't find any good sourcing, so I may as well ask it here: From whence does the Seidenmoose come?

I "get" the Yeti reference - previously, it was a rarely spotted legendary figure, referring to Soderberg's (loyalty to/stubborn refusal to leave) Malmo. We'd hear talk of him, but never see him. (BTW, now that he's regularly seen in daylight, doesn't he deserve a new name?)

Can someone tell me the legend of the Seidenmoose? Or was it an "I got drunk and photoshopped a Bs helmet on a moose" kind of thing?

 

[Alicat]

So, I've tried searching for it, but I can't find any good sourcing, so I may as well ask it here: From whence does the Seidenmoose come?

I "get" the Yeti reference - previously, it was a rarely spotted legendary figure, referring to Soderberg's (loyalty to/stubborn refusal to leave) Malmo. We'd hear talk of him, but never see him. (BTW, now that he's regularly seen in daylight, doesn't he deserve a new name?)

Can someone tell me the legend of the Seidenmoose? Or was it an "I got drunk and photoshopped a Bs helmet on a moose" kind of thing?

The legend that is Seidenmoose was created by me for Son of Marshmont's Land of Houses and Zoos GDT when we first played Columbus after Horton signed there.

We came up with animal names for each player and thus, Seidenmoose was born and he makes cameo's in other GDT's throughout the season.

Here's the link: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1514943

We were completely sober when we created this GDT btw.

 

[Bruins Stooge]

Zdeno Chara is known as "Big Z" because he is tall.

 

[Joe Zanussi]

Marshmont

 

[member 96824]

Bogo is

buy 1 get 1 for free

Last time I heard that was at Lonnie's house and I needed Penicillin shots after

 

[Alicat]

Last time I heard that was at Lonnie's house and I needed Penicillin shots after

He sucked you in with the old chloroform trick eh?

 

[member 96824]

He sucked you in with the old chloroform trick eh?

I didnt even see it coming.

 

[Replicator]

Bogo is buy 1 get 1 for free

Not around here it doesn't.

It doesn't? But isn't that how we got Reilly Smith?

 

[BNHL]

Marshmont

Dumbest of them all.

 

[qc]

So, I've tried searching for it, but I can't find any good sourcing, so I may as well ask it here: From whence does the Seidenmoose come?

I "get" the Yeti reference - previously, it was a rarely spotted legendary figure, referring to Soderberg's (loyalty to/stubborn refusal to leave) Malmo. We'd hear talk of him, but never see him. (BTW, now that he's regularly seen in daylight, doesn't he deserve a new name?)

Can someone tell me the legend of the Seidenmoose? Or was it an "I got drunk and photoshopped a Bs helmet on a moose" kind of thing?

There was a Zoo-themed GDT from this past season (game v. Columbus). SoM coined the nickname.

 

[jgatie]

Definitely. I had an older man sit next to me at a Bruins game once and he knew absolutely nothing - had never been to a hockey game before. He kept asking me questions about the game itself and the players and I was happy to answer them.

So much more fun than the yobbos proclaiming their ignorance at the top of their lungs.

I had to explain a one-timer to a friend. After I said "It's a shot where you only touch the puck one time" he looked at me blankly, as if it couldn't possibly be that simple. I said "Yeah, hockey players really aren't that creative in naming stuff." I got the same look after explaining the 5 hole.

 

[Artemis]

I had to explain a one-timer to a friend. After I said "It's a shot where you only touch the puck one time" he looked at me blankly, as if it couldn't possibly be that simple. I said "Yeah, hockey players really aren't that creative in naming stuff." I got the same look after explaining the 5 hole.

Well, creativity can be overdone - try explaining why "nutmeg" is a soccer term sometime.

 

[jgatie]

Well, creativity can be overdone - try explaining why "nutmeg" is a soccer term sometime.

Soccer needs that type of creativity. It helps to strike up conversations in the boring times between chanting at the top of your lungs and crushing people in the stands.