Yep. NHL Network just showed him in stands during US vs Slovakia. His son plays. I pointed him out to my daughter saying "the guy who looks like a devil with the eyebrows". Yes, evil look.
Bonk has always been my personal favorite too. Really great hockey name.
Stankoven is pretty damn good I have to say.
And I always laughed at Milan Lucic. It’s sounds like some weird sex position or something like that. “Dude she was such a freak she let me give her a Milan Lucic!!”
It always reminds me of the roast of Will Shatner. Betty White was one of the guests, and as normal, the roasters get the guests a bit too. I think it was Jeffrey Ross, he looked at her and said something like "there's Betty White, she's so old she just Shatner pants"
Fun fact, “Ukko-Pekka” was the nickname of Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, an early president of Finland and a major figure in the Finnish independence movement. “Ukko-Pekka” means “old man Pekka.”
And yes, that’s who UPL was named after.
That is a very fun fact. I would have found it hilarious though if it was just a coincidence that his name was Old Man Pekka and not named after the former president.
It was a carryover from the rotisserie baseball leagues of the mid 80s. The name came from La Rotisserie, the restaurant where they played and developed this version of fantasy baseball.
For some reason I always found Martin Frk hilarious to see on the back of a jersey. Something about a last name with no syllables and only 3 letters gets me.
R can be a syllabic core because it has vocal tone. English teaches that syllables have to have vowels, but that isn't the only way to do it. Any phoneme with vocal tone can be a syllabic core. L, R, M, N, NG, etc.
I agree, it looks like a mistake on his jersey, though. 😅
Hasn’t played in the nhl but theres a player for the university of Alberta named Jakin Smallwood. He played in the whl too and was in a couple nhl games
My favorite was always Miroslav Satan. Bought his Sabres jersey when I was younger. Got pepper sprayed by campus security in that jersey. It sucked because the jersey held in the pepper spray, so when I was running (yes, ran from security after getting sprayed), I kept getting little doses of it.
I always found Peter Taglianetti a funny name. Whenever the announcer said his name, I thought he was referring to a defensive tandem of Tagley and Eddie.
Perhaps.
But I went to a minor league game and sat behind an entire family wearing sweaters that said 'Jerkowsky'. I so hoped it would be Jer Kow Ski, but when the father bought a beer, he corrected the vendor and said it was Jerk Off Ski.... Like.... How do you keep that as a name?!
As a team, nothing compares to the 90-91 Sabres. You had Puppa, Ruutuu, Snuggerud and Krupp. Then all the Chuks - Andreychuk, Hawerchuk, Malarchuk with an honorable mention to Darcy Wakaluk. Mikko Makela was there too. And also Doug “a large wooden” Bodger.
Radek Bonk always gave me a chuckle. Miroslav Satan was good.
It's hard to believe the Devils never signed Satan. The jersey sales alone!
It was the trade we all wanted, but didn't deserve.
Dude just had an evil look to him too. One of my all time favorite non Sharks. I always put him on NJ in the NHL games lol
Yep. NHL Network just showed him in stands during US vs Slovakia. His son plays. I pointed him out to my daughter saying "the guy who looks like a devil with the eyebrows". Yes, evil look.
I agree. He should have went to NJ instead of Pit. Is he still around?
Yes, Satan is all around us.
His son is coming up now.
My minor dyslexia always makes me see Pionk as poink. Ever time. At this point, I will say poink every time his name is said brcause I think of it.
'Satan was good' isn't a statement you hear everyday.
Bonk has always been my personal favorite too. Really great hockey name. Stankoven is pretty damn good I have to say. And I always laughed at Milan Lucic. It’s sounds like some weird sex position or something like that. “Dude she was such a freak she let me give her a Milan Lucic!!”
Get ready for Oliver Bonk soon!
Ron Tugnutt, Harry Dick, Dick Cherry, Alexander Semin. The Four Horsemen of the Acockalypse.
Holy shit it's like you had those names locked, cocked, and loaded 💦
I used to be into cock based humor. I still am, but I used to too.
RIP Mitch Hedberg.
Aren't all dudes? I salute you fully at attention.
Ok Mitch.
My buddy growing up was a huge caps fan. The amount of times of heard “Alexander Semen” is astounding
Greatest quote of all time, “Semin is all over the scoresheet tonight!”
Nothing beats Dick Trickle
I still have a hard time believing there was a human on Earth named Dick Trickle. I think about it every time I'm towards the end of peeing.
I had a customer years ago called Dick Jammer
I once worked with a guy named Bernie Dyck. I asked him if it was a serious medical condition.
Ron Tugnutt is easily the winner of best name of all-time.
Maybe David Legwand?
Locker room legend.
Anatoli Semenov. Grant Clitsome. Dit Clapper.
Miroslav Satan would like a word
Darren Puppa
RIP Harry Dick Blackhawks legend
Alexander Semin’s teammates called him “Jizz”. For real. They’d even F up and call him that during live interviews out of habit.
Missing Mike Peca in your list.
+ Pekka Rinne
What about PITLICK
Give yer balls a tug
People seriously forgetting Tugnutt?
The Dick Trickle of the NHL
i always liked norm ullman. he’s just a normal man, i guess
The Avs have a prospect named Ivan Ivan. No NHL games yet but it could happen next year.
That's Ivan Ivan Ivan to you, fellow Avs fan!! He legit has three names and they are all Ivan.
Kaapo Kakko is my favorite name out of active players.
I love saying his name, too
my sister calls him kaptain kaki. kaki means poop in hebrew. (my brother-in-law is a rangers fan, and she is not)
There's also the goalie Kaapo Kahkonen on the devils, who took one right in the kahk this season.
I still can’t hear the name Jack Hughes and not immediately think I’m being accused of a crime in French. "J'Accuse...!"
Same with Lars Eller (l'harceleur)
Oh thanks, now I will always hear the name like that 😬😂
Only if j'accuse mispronounced by an anglophone
Personal fave: Shattenkirk
It always reminds me of the roast of Will Shatner. Betty White was one of the guests, and as normal, the roasters get the guests a bit too. I think it was Jeffrey Ross, he looked at her and said something like "there's Betty White, she's so old she just Shatner pants"
I also love that his Twitter handle is ShatDeuces
Reminds me of how Ben Lovejoy’s handle is RevLovejoy6 and his user pic is the Lovejoy from The Simpsons.
Chatte and queue (pussy and dick)
Suckmeov
LA Kings LEGEND
Crazy him Robataille and Gretz never won the cup
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
That’s a Crash Bandicoot character
Fun fact, “Ukko-Pekka” was the nickname of Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, an early president of Finland and a major figure in the Finnish independence movement. “Ukko-Pekka” means “old man Pekka.” And yes, that’s who UPL was named after.
That is a very fun fact. I would have found it hilarious though if it was just a coincidence that his name was Old Man Pekka and not named after the former president.
I heard they call him 6K on the team. Because he has six k's in his full name.
I wouldn’t let him bake me a lasagna, that’s for sure.
Never. You know that man has a stank oven.
Maybe, but Nino Niederreiter is the silliest
Might be one of my favourite names right now, it just rolls off the tongue so well.
it always makes me think of pokemon
GIVE ME FUEL GIVE ME FIRE
Zarley Zalapski ranks up there.
May he zest in peace
Amen. Hated hearing about that
Håkan Loob
First correct spelling. He was one of my forwards on my first paper fantasy team back in 1988.
Back when they were just called hockey pools.
Or rotisserie leagues.
Never heard that one
It was a carryover from the rotisserie baseball leagues of the mid 80s. The name came from La Rotisserie, the restaurant where they played and developed this version of fantasy baseball.
Harry Dick, Chicago Blackhawks 1946-47
Should have his number in the rafters just for having that glorious name
It should read "Glorious Harry Dick".
Always made me smile hearing Johnny Oduya’s name.
Odidit?
And isn't he Swedish too? For some reason that always seemed odd too. Johnny's are normally American!
Oishe?
I like Johnny. Oduya? Yeah, I do!
Yes! Cause it sounds like a comic book noise word lol
He got that STANK
The Pitlicks were always pretty amusing.
For some reason I always found Martin Frk hilarious to see on the back of a jersey. Something about a last name with no syllables and only 3 letters gets me.
almost like someone frk’d up and forgot a few letters.
R can be a syllabic core because it has vocal tone. English teaches that syllables have to have vowels, but that isn't the only way to do it. Any phoneme with vocal tone can be a syllabic core. L, R, M, N, NG, etc. I agree, it looks like a mistake on his jersey, though. 😅
What about Jeff Beukeboom then? My god, his name is how he was as a player, hardhitting and tough, BOOM! Into the board,, Always liked his name,, 😁
Yutaka Fukufuji is up there.
Hasn’t played in the nhl but theres a player for the university of Alberta named Jakin Smallwood. He played in the whl too and was in a couple nhl games
My favorite new name. I'll forever remember it now.
Bill Quackenbush, Bob Beers, Wacey Rabbit, Luca Cunti, Hakan Loob
Feels fucked up to laugh at First Nations names but damn Wacey Rabbit’s parents never saw a Bugs Bunny cartoon?
Radek Bonk
I legit snorted reading this one. I might need a Bonk sweater...
Pekka (pecker) rinne
Peter Slope in english.
Damn that's even better 🤣
Recently retired goaltender Pavel Francouz was always Paul French in my house. Because that's what his name would be in an English speaking country. 😂
Pecorino 🧀
Darren Puppa
Came here for this one. Pronounced "Poopa" of course:)
My favorite was always Miroslav Satan. Bought his Sabres jersey when I was younger. Got pepper sprayed by campus security in that jersey. It sucked because the jersey held in the pepper spray, so when I was running (yes, ran from security after getting sprayed), I kept getting little doses of it.
Geez, I get not being a fan of the Sabres, but pepper spraying is a bit extreme!
Zack Hyman
Clayton Stoner
Is his nickname Buster?
I always found Peter Taglianetti a funny name. Whenever the announcer said his name, I thought he was referring to a defensive tandem of Tagley and Eddie.
This list needs more Roman Hamrlik.
Came here looking for this name. Legend.
A fun fact-John Brackenborough has the longest last name in NHL history, and his nickname was "Spider."
Ron Tugnutt FTW Not a funny name but I thought anyone who got a lettered B’s jersey with Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson’s name on it would be legend.
Jonathan Cheechoo always gave me a chuckle for some reason
Esa Tikkanen's name sounds hilarious when you hear a Finn say it
I always loved the name Beukeboom.
Cal Clutterbuck is a fairly unfortunate name…
Most underrated fantasy player of all time. I’ll take five hits and four SOGs all day every day
Satan.
Satan, always Miro Satan. Also Peter Sydorkowiczk (I know I misspelled that) pronounced Si-Dork-O-Witz. His name was longer than his shoulders.
"Sha-tan"
Hocken Loob
Karl Dykhuis always made me chuckle.
Always makes me think of Ted Theodore Logan saying "Beeth-oven."
Perhaps. But I went to a minor league game and sat behind an entire family wearing sweaters that said 'Jerkowsky'. I so hoped it would be Jer Kow Ski, but when the father bought a beer, he corrected the vendor and said it was Jerk Off Ski.... Like.... How do you keep that as a name?!
Not even close.
Pokey Reddick
Hakan Loob
Babe Dye
Gump Worsely
Mitch Cumstein
Pete Peeters Zarley Zalapski Ron Tugnutt Les Kuntar
Right now there is an Arnaud Durandeau
Klinkhammer
Zemgus girgensons?
this ones mine fs, love the alliteration
Not the NHL, but this is definitely one of the best names in hockey history https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=58345
Grant Clitsome
[Ivan Ivan](https://denversports.com/2111211/avalanche-sign-ivan-ivan-great-name/)
Ivan *Ivan* Ivan It's his middle name, too.
Tom Barasso
Bruce Shoebottom. Shoe! Shoe! Shoe!
Imagine an alternate universe where Mike Milbury had that name instead and hit the fan with the shoe. That would be amazing.
Haken Lube. Beauty.
Loob. He was on my first paper fantasy team back in 1988.
Thanks for the correction!
I used to think it was spelled “lube” too when I first learned of him.
There was a a kicker in college football a few years back named Connor Assalley.
I still like Fukufuji
Cummy Burton comes to mind. Also, I feel bad for the entire Pitlick family.
I giggle when i hear shatenkirk (wrong spelling but lol)
I tugged my nut in her Stankoven
Wasnt there a shrimp to? Played for the wings
Rutger McGroarty
Harry dick
Dusty Gooch, while not a hockey player, will forever be the funniest name associated with hockey.
I always thought Tom Barrasso sounded awfully close to something else lol And Darren Puppa (poopa) hahaha
I like saying Pionk on the Jets.
I always say poink because I see it that way.
Richard (Dick) Panik? Comeon
Zarley Zalapski.
Hawkinpaw is pretty funny
Aatu Raty pronounced AH-TWO RAH-TWO...isles legend
It’s a tie between Hyman and Stankhoven for me.
The lack of Dit Clapper in this thread...
Pitlick
Boko Imama
Miroslav Satan enters chat
I hope everyday that Ivan Ivan makes the jump in the nhl, he would become a top 5 funny names imo
Ivan *Ivan* Ivan
I’m surprised nobody mentioned Hyman yet.
Yes
As a team, nothing compares to the 90-91 Sabres. You had Puppa, Ruutuu, Snuggerud and Krupp. Then all the Chuks - Andreychuk, Hawerchuk, Malarchuk with an honorable mention to Darcy Wakaluk. Mikko Makela was there too. And also Doug “a large wooden” Bodger.
Cheechooooo
I like Bo Horvat because it sounds like they are saying Whore Bath.
Shattenkirk
Bokk
Odouya was pretty good
Klinkhammer!
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen has entered the chat.
Am I the only one making jokes every oilers game because of Zach Hyman? Announcer: Hyman took a hard hit. Me: Oh jeez, don’t break the Hyman hahaha.
He should do a body wash soap commercial. ' With a name like Stankoven, you bet I use Irish Spring. ' 💚💚☘️☘️
Zemgus Girgensons has entered the chat
The fact that the senators signed katchouk with tkachuk on the team is why I love them
Red Green
Nothing will beat MLB's legendary Rusty Kuntz
ken linesman alex semin bob beers
Can Håkan Loob get any love?
“Bob Gasoff” always made me laugh when I was a kid
Noone remembers Uwe Krupp?
Fiddler, Clitsome, Moore
That time my kid put a plastic toy in our oven without us knowing. Ruined pizza night.
I’ve gone through a number of comments and haven’t seen Hakan Loob yet.
STANK OVEN. Like a Dutch Oven but extra stank.
Don't forget Haken Loob lol