RW Vyacheslav Gretsky - Amur Khabarovsk, KHL (2015 Undrafted)

[WarriorofTime]

Vyacheslav Gretsky - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Vyacheslav Gretsky, 1996-12-23 Grodno, BLR Belarus. Most recently in the undefined with Amur Khabarovsk. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

He doesn't appear to be that good on paper based on his career to date, but idk, look at that name.

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[Faterson]

look at that name.

I know... a typo.

 

[ViD]

I mean no surprise here given that Wayne’s family originated from the Eastern Europe region, eventually there will be players with the same name.

Gretsky is probably what their original name was, later changed to Gretzky to westernize it more

 

[austin63867]

Vyacheslav Gretsky - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Vyacheslav Gretsky, 1996-12-23 Grodno, BLR Belarus. Most recently in the undefined with Amur Khabarovsk. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

He doesn't appear to be that good on paper based on his career to date, but idk, look at that name.

Related to Wayne Glensky?

 

[WarriorofTime]

I mean no surprise here given that Wayne’s family originated from the Eastern Europe region, eventually there will be players with the same name.

Gretsky is probably what their original name was, later changed to Gretzky to westernize it more

I don't see how changing an 's' to a 'z' would westernize the name more, lol

 

[Faterson]

I don't see how changing an 's' to a 'z' would westernize the name more

It would germanize it. (In English, they use ts instead of c, because they pronounce c as k. In German, it's customary to use z or tz instead of c.)

 

[Kap-the-Head]

I mean no surprise here given that Wayne’s family originated from the Eastern Europe region, eventually there will be players with the same name.

Gretsky is probably what their original name was, later changed to Gretzky to westernize it more

I actually went to kindergarten in Tver with the guy named Ivan Gretzky.

 

[Kshahdoo]

I actually went to kindergarten in Tver with the guy named Ivan Gretzky.

I live in Tver but haven't met anyone named Gretzky here yet...

 

[ichbinkanadier]

I mean no surprise here given that Wayne’s family originated from the Eastern Europe region, eventually there will be players with the same name.

Gretsky is probably what their original name was, later changed to Gretzky to westernize it more

Or it was misspelled when they arrived and just never changed it

Ski or sky seems to be the norm for these nanes

 

[wetcoast]

Vyacheslav Gretsky - Stats, Contract, Salary & More

Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Vyacheslav Gretsky, 1996-12-23 Grodno, BLR Belarus. Most recently in the undefined with Amur Khabarovsk. Complete player biography and stats.

www.eliteprospects.com

He doesn't appear to be that good on paper based on his career to date, but idk, look at that name.

Man I immediately thought that you were pulling a prank when I saw the thread title but ya that name probably gave everyone the same gut reaction/first thought.

 

[Caser]

Vyacheslav Gretsky thread is something I would've expected to see in 2019, not in 2023 lol. My favorite stuff on the topic:

 

[Faterson]

Ski or sky seems to be the norm for these nanes

Nope, that's a completely different ending. S is not the same as C, and also, -ski is primarily a Polish ending, while -sky would typically be Russian or Ukrainian.

As mentioned earlier, the letters Z or S in the letter combinations TZ or TS are meant to convey (in German or English) the original (Slavic) letter/sound C. It has nothing to do with that common ending -ski/-sky in Polish, Russian, or Ukrainian names.

I suppose you all know that Gretzky means Greek in translation, right? (In Slovak, grécky means Greek, and Grécko means Greece.)

 

[Kshahdoo]

Nope, that's a completely different ending. S is not the same as C, and also, -ski is primarily a Polish ending, while -sky would typically be Russian or Ukrainian.

As mentioned earlier, the letters Z or S in the letter combinations TZ or TS are meant to convey (in German or English) the original (Slavic) letter/sound C. It has nothing to do with that common ending -ski/-sky in Polish, Russian, or Ukrainian names.

I suppose you all know that Gretzky means Greek in translation, right? (In Slovak, grécky means Greek, and Grécko means Greece.)

In Russian Gretskiy used to be Greek like 150 years ago, nowadays it's obsolete, but we still have gretskiy orekh (English walnut, but in Russia it's obviously Greek nut).

 

[Faterson]

In Russian Gretskiy used to be Greek like 150 years ago, nowadays it's obsolete, but we still have gretskiy orekh (English walnut, but in Russia it's obviously Greek nut).

Yeah, of course. Languages change over time. I realize that in today's Russian, Greek is grecheskiy, no longer gretskiy.

It so happens that in today's Slovak, it's still grécky, so practically identical to Gretzky's name – just using the original (non-westernized/non-germanized) spelling.

(It's interesting that in Czech, although usually so similar to Slovak, the word is changed rather radically to řecký.)

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Generational name.

 

[ichbinkanadier]

Nope, that's a completely different ending. S is not the same as C, and also, -ski is primarily a Polish ending, while -sky would typically be Russian or Ukrainian.

As mentioned earlier, the letters Z or S in the letter combinations TZ or TS are meant to convey (in German or English) the original (Slavic) letter/sound C. It has nothing to do with that common ending -ski/-sky in Polish, Russian, or Ukrainian names.

I suppose you all know that Gretzky means Greek in translation, right? (In Slovak, grécky means Greek, and Grécko means Greece.)

Ahhh...the tz letter combination never even occured to me

Isn't his background Russian?

 

[HanSolo]

I don't see how changing an 's' to a 'z' would westernize the name more, lol

My first thought too

 

[Faterson]

Isn't his background Russian?

Belarussian. (Just like the player in this thread.)

Generational name.

It's quietly burning down the villages.

 

[Albatros]

I mean no surprise here given that Wayne’s family originated from the Eastern Europe region, eventually there will be players with the same name.

Gretsky is probably what their original name was, later changed to Gretzky to westernize it more

Given as Anton Gretzkij in the Ellis Island records, then became Tony Gretzky in America. But yeah, quite possibly distant relatives given that also old Anton was from Grodno.