The best player's nickname in the League

[Kshahdoo]

The obligated summer thread about NHL players' nicknames. Make your bets... I mean, tell us your opinions.

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[Lapa]

Bruce = Mikael Granlund.

Players call Parise, “Brinks,” as in “Brinks” $$$ trucks. Mike Rupp brought it to the Wild from New Jersey, where Parise and Rupp were teammates.

“One day we’re sitting at breakfast and I was walking away and Granny called me, ‘Springs,’” Parise said, laughing. “I’m like, ‘What did you call me?’ He goes, ‘Springs.’ I go, ‘What is that?’ He goes, ‘Isn’t that what everyone calls you?’ I go, ‘No, no, they call me Brinks.’ He goes, ‘Oh, I thought it was Springs, like Bruce Springsteen’ [because I played in New Jersey],” Parise said, hysterically laughing.

“That’s how nicknames get started. We started calling him Bruce. He does not look like a Bruce at all, so that’s what makes it better.”

http://www.startribune.com/yeo-matt...returns-to-lineup-after-suspension/258504821/

 

[jetsforever]

Johnny Hockey TM

 

[ReggietheSavage15]

Alexander Semin, you’ll recall, has an internal team nickname based on a homonym of his last name, a nickname that sounds sort of like “just,” and a nickname that at least one teammate has used on live television before.

What did Alex Ovechkin say in his postgame interview?

 

[Plural]

Bruce = Mikael Granlund.



http://www.startribune.com/yeo-matt...returns-to-lineup-after-suspension/258504821/

This is awesome.

 

[allan5oh]

The Jets call Ehlers "fly"



What he's referring to:

 

[Rebels57]

Context included when needed

Gostisbehere - Ghost

Simmonds - Wayne Train

Voracek - Jake the Snake (slithers his way through defenders)

Giroux - G-sus (our savior, started in 2012)

Provorov - Provocop (because of his robotic precision)

MacDonald - Farmer (play on Old MacDonald because he farms goals for the opposition )

 

[hockeystick89]

Guzzler is the all-time best imo.

 

[Mohni]

Kevin

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Pickles for Vlasic is probably my favourite right now.

 

[Gsus]

Hatrik rings nice with Patrik. You know who I mean.

 

[Frosty415]

I love Pickles

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Hatrik rings nice with Patrik. You know who I mean.

yeah Patrik Berglund obviously

 

[Irishguy42]

Rick Nash is The Slim Reaper

Though I think Dom "The Professor" Moore is pretty good too.

 

[Tyrus]

Rick Nash is The Slim Reaper

Though I think Dom "The Professor" Moore is pretty good too.

Since when ..?

Don't think I've ever heard him called that on the Jackets and he's not really slim or at all very deadly recently.

There's a reason people call Kevin Durant the slim reaper.

 

[Irishguy42]

Since when ..?

Don't think I've ever heard him called that on the Jackets and he's not really slim or at all very deadly recently.

There's a reason people call Kevin Durant the slim reaper.

I didn't believe it at first. But it's true.

 

[iamjs]

what did alex ovechkin say in his postgame interview?

Ewell is a former Caps' PR guy, so possibly a little damage control on his part. If it was "just", then why did Matt Bradley also call him the same name?

https://twitter.com/japersrink/status/528266504421507072

 

[Braunbaer]

The best player's nickname?

I guess most people call him McJesus, right?

 

[ReggietheSavage15]

Ewell is a former Caps' PR guy, so possibly a little damage control on his part. If it was "just", then why did Matt Bradley also call him the same name?

https://twitter.com/japersrink/status/528266504421507072

Can't find the video anywhere, but I do 100% remember hearing Bradley using Semin's nickname in a postgame interview with CSN. Hilarious stuff.

 

[booyakasha]

I still like Keith Yandle = Jelly

 

[A4T1L6]

jAY mCCLEMENT = goat

 

[LeHab]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ice_hockey_nicknames

 

[Rufus]

Pool party

 

[Evil Little]

Connor Hellebuyck (language warning):

Buyck****? - Thorburn Interview

 

[PatrikBerglund]

I believe EK #65 is called Norris in the locker room.