Words NHL fans need to remove from their vocabulary

HugeInTheShire

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Mar 8, 2021
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Drives me nuts how often certain words get thrown around, so let's start a list of words not to use anymore


#1 Offsides: it's offside singular
#2 Generational: these players come around once in a while, not every year
#3 Franchise Player: this isn't EA
#4 Celly: this one just bothers me, no other reason
 

Suntouchable13

Registered User
Dec 20, 2003
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Toronto, ON
Drives me nuts how often certain words get thrown around, so let's start a list of words not to use anymore


#1 Offsides: it's offside singular
#2 Generational: these players come around once in a while, not every year
#3 Franchise Player: this isn't EA
#4 Celly: this one just bothers me, no other reason

I 100% agree with you on #1. Drives me crazy too. Glad you said it.
 

WetcoastOrca

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Jun 3, 2011
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Intangibles.

Most contributions can be measured. We just don’t have the stats yet to do it.
I’d take prime Toews because he shut down other teams top players and scored key goals in the playoffs.
 
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IamNotADancer

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Feb 16, 2017
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Drives me nuts how often certain words get thrown around, so let's start a list of words not to use anymore


#1 Offsides: it's offside singular
#2 Generational: these players come around once in a while, not every year
#3 Franchise Player: this isn't EA
#4 Celly: this one just bothers me, no other reason

Is this like a recent hockey thing? Like 2014 recent? I've been involved in sports and on this board for a long time and never had I heard the word "celly" other than here on hfboards. I almost want to say it has it's origin here especially given that it seems like such a forced and extremely silly abbreviation
 
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TheDawnOfANewTage

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Offsides might make more sense though? It’s what seems to be in common usage, and if you think about it like “two sides of the line, he is on the wrong side, he is off on his sides”.. either way, it’s never bugged me. Most of these seem silly, generational is the only one that’s actually a problem and that’s just because it’s become half a meme here on HF.
 

HotDish

Win it for Hynes
Aug 17, 2020
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The State of Hockey
Drives me nuts how often certain words get thrown around, so let's start a list of words not to use anymore


#1 Offsides: it's offside singular
#2 Generational: these players come around once in a while, not every year
#3 Franchise Player: this isn't EA
#4 Celly: this one just bothers me, no other reason
I use Offside, but it is important to know in the USA hockey rule book uses and calls it Offsides.
 

TheDawnOfANewTage

Dahlin, it’ll all be fine
Dec 17, 2018
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Is this like a recent hockey thing? Like 2014 recent? I've been involved in sports and on this board for a long time and never had I heard the word "celly" other than here on hfboards. I almost want to say it has it's origin here especially given that it seems like such a forced and extremely silly abbreviation

Taught some Cali hockey kids and it was definitely a term with them, but so was pretty much everything else. So it’s OP hating on the slang used by the young’uns, yeah.
 
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ponder719

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Jul 2, 2013
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#4 Celly: this one just bothers me, no other reason

Yes, if we could all agree to leave this in the dustbin of history, I think it'd do everyone a bit of good.

Also, if we could stop talking up terrible players by mentioning that they're good "in the room," that'd be great. There have to be better ways of saying they benefit team chemistry than that.
 

Spirit of 67

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Don’t you ever tell me how to live my life again
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Confused Turnip

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All the various words that don't really mean anything concrete and are used to justify seemingly nonsense opinions: intangibles, enigmatic, truculence, ainec, generational, etc.
 

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