Why, why, why, do the Mavericks keep losing? Where was my team from last season? Why did they lose to Detroit? Why was Michael Finley only shooting 2-10? Who on earth decided it would be a good idea to let Antoine Walker take 5 3 point shots in one game (it goes without saying that he missed them all). WHY WON’T THEY GIVE THE BALL TO DIRK MORE?!!!!
In order to distract myself I’m going to blog about hockey. I think that in all of sports, hockey players have the best names. I can see why Todd McFarlane (who designed the Edmonton Oilers third jersey) turned to the rich world of hockey when coming up for a name for a character in Spawn, Tony Twist.
Here are my favorite hockey player names, in no particular order:
Kimmo Timonen, say it soft and its almost like praying! No, I have fond memories of this name because of all the magic marker fumes I inhaled while making a “Go Kimmo Go!” banner to take with me to the Russia vs Finland game in the Winter Olympics.
Radek Bonk, what a great last name.
Todd Bertuzzi, I think once on NHL tonight they had a scary Elvis impersonator singing a song about Bertuzzi. I really hope they did, because otherwise I have no reason for thinking about Elvis whenever I think about Bertuzzi, which I must say is not very often at all.
Keith Tkachuk, because Tkachuk sounds like something hitting something else.
Teemu Selanne, another great Finnish name, go Avs!
Miroslav Satan, I know his name isn’t pronounced like the devil, but “Satan” is just a cool name to have on back of your jersey.
Here’s an ESPN Page 2 list of hockey player nicknames.
My favorite of all time ia Terry Yake. Always made me hungry for chicken.
lol steven.
they’ve got the best names ever, sho nuff! way better than baseball names and some of those can get pretty colorful.
pretty redesign! pretty colors.
Poor Terry Yake, what can you do with a name like that?
I like Darren Pang too. Pang! Or any hockey player with the last name “Savage”.
Thanks Sulky, I need to go back and fix some stuff with the css for comments and archives, but I’m glad I managed to get the blog into 3 columns!
Yahoo! Sports has player profiles. And for some reason or another, Miroslav Satan URL is…
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/666
That yahoo URL is great.
Long have I wished that Miroslav Satan would be traded to the New Jersey Devils. I am in no way, shape or form a Devils fan, but I would buy that jersey in a nanosecond…:)
As for ‘Toine and his threes: nobody LETS him shoot threes. ‘Toine does what ‘Toine wants, team be damned. You should consider yourself lucky he’s not averaging eight or nine attempts per game, the way he did his last two seasons with the C’s. The fact that he made less than 30% percent of those shots never deterred him in the slightest. Neither did the pleading of his coach. He won’t change; look for the frequency of 30 foot airballs to increase.
i’m going to name a child ‘toine. i just am. no one will be able to stop me. is there therapy for this?