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[MrsBevo]

In the search for a birthday card for my aunt, I somehow managed to come home with the Sporting News Hockey preview. Boy was that thing a bit dated! Printed prior to all the activity, but still helpful to see who played where and did what last year. They also gave 99 reasons to love hockey, one of which included the nicknames of players. I did ok on most of them, but some I have no idea. We had no success looking on the internet for one of them, so we might have to rely upon old memories.

Mr. Zero -
Mr. Goalie -
Mr. Hockey - Gordie Howe
The Great One - Gretzky (duh!)
Le Magnifique -
The Dominator - Dominic Hasek
The Missing Link -
The Entertainer -
The Embalmer -
The Golden Jet - Bobby Hull
The Rocket - Maurice Richard
The Pocket Rocket - Henri Richard
The Hammer - Dave Schulz (?)
The Fog -
The Bionic Blueberry - (couldn't find this anywhere!)
The Bandit -
The Flower -
The Rat - (no, it wasn't Kariya!)
The Cat - Felix Potvin
The Magic Man -
The Chicoutimi Cucumber -
The Grim Reaper - Stuuuuuuuuu! Grimson
Ace -
Pie -
Toe - Blake
Gump - Worsley
Babe -
Beezer - John VanBiesbrouck
Bunny -
Butch -
Busher -
Bun -
Boom Boom - Geoffrion
Boo Boo -
Big Bird -
Battleship -
Buffalo Head -
Big Train -
Clear the Track -
Punch - Imlach
Pokey -
Turk -
Teeder -
Terrible - Ted Lindsay (?)
Tiger -
King -
Killer -
Cowboy -
Cyclone -
Spinner -
Moose -
Ulcers -
Suitcase -
Jovo Cop - Ed Jovonovski
Rodrunner -
Screwy -
Mental Case -
Knuckles -
Bad News -
Hot Rod -
Cheech -
China Wall -
Red Light -
Human Puck Funnel -
Jake the Snake -
Apple Cheeks -
Noodles -
Soupy -
Hound Dog -
CuJo - Curtis Joseph
Little Beaver -
Old Poison -
Sideshow Bob -
Stumpy - Steve Thomas

Please feel free to fill in the names and add any other particularly good nicknames you like. Some of thes are not the most flattering.

[Dark Knight]

Some of those are pretty funny. The "Embalmer"?! How do you get a nick like that?

[QuacksMeUp]

Cheech - Roman Cechmanek? (That's what I called him anyway.)

[GLOVESAVE35]

These are just off the top of my head:

Le Magnifique - M. Lemieux?
The Flower - Guy Lafleur
The Chicoutimi Cucumber - Georges Vezina
Ace - Bailey
Bunny - Laroque?
Big Bird - Larry Robinson?
Pokey - Reddick
Tiger -Dave Williams?
Suitcase - Smith (goalie)
Noodles - Jamie McClennan
Sideshow Bob - Commodore

[M T]

Red Light - Andre Racicot. Greatest nickname for a goal EVER!!
Le Magnifique - Mario Lemieux
Knuckles - Chris Nilan
The Rat - Ken Linseman
Tiger - Dave Williams
The Flower - Guy LaFleur
Ace - Irvine Bailey
Killer - Doug Gilmour
Moose - Mark Messier
Big Bird - Larry Robinson
The Chicoutimi Cucumber - George Veznia
Butch - Robert Goring

[beba91]

The Moose is Hedberg

[M T]

King - Clancy
Cyclone - Taylor
Old Poision - Nels Stewart
Mr Zero - Frank Brimsek
Babe - Pratt
Busher - Jackson
Mr Goalie - Glenn Hall
The China Wall - Johnny Bower
The Roadrunner - Yvan Cournoyer
The Missing Link - Link Gaetz
The Embalmer - Alf Pike
The Fog - Fred Shero
Battleship - Bob Kelly

[HurricaneDuck]

I got one....

Crappy-Tom POTI

[Kimi]

Because I'm great, I'll fill in that list for you MrsB. I'll post it in the morning or later on tomarrow, I've got a load of work to do (which is why I've not been about much in the past few days, I hate school work...)

[Kimi]

Here's a list for you. I've missed a few out as I'm not 100% on them. I'll look them up late if I've got time. I've also added in some more I know.

Ace - Irvine Bailey
AiMo - Alexander Mogilny
Apple Cheeks - Harry Lumley
Babe - Cecil Dye
Bad News - Marvin Barnes
Barney - Russell Stanley
Battleship - Schmidt Leduc
Beezer - John VanBiesbrouck
Big Bird - Larry Robinson
Big Nose - Martin Rucinsky
Big Train - Walter Johnson
Bill - Hubert Quackenbush
Billy - Hamilton Gilmour
Black Jack - John Stewart
Boom Boom - Bernie Geoffrion
Bouse – John Hutton
Bubba - Barry Beck
Buck – George Boucher
Bud – Norman Poile
Buddy – Herbert O'Connor
Bullet Joe - Joseph Simpson
Bun – Frederick Cook
Bunny - John Francis Ahearne
Burnaby Joe - Joe Sakic
Busher – Harvey Jackson
Butch - Al Arbour
Cheech - Tie Domi
Chief - George Armstrong
China Wall - Johnny Bower
Ching – Ivan Johnson
Chuck – Claude Earl Rayner
Claude Printemps - Claude Lemieux
Clear the Track - Eddie Shack
Cooney – Ralph Weiland
CuJo - Curtis Joseph
Cyclone – Frederick Taylor
Dit - Aubrey Clapper
Dominator - Dominik Hašek
Dubbie – Russell Bowie
Duke - Gordon Keats
Eddie the Eagle - Ed Belfour
Foppa - Peter Forsberg
Godzilla - Olaf Kolzig
Grapes - Don Cherry
Gump - Lorne Worsley
Hap - Clarence Day
Happy - Harry Holmes
Hod – William Stuart
Hooley – Reginald Smith
Hot Rod -
Hound Dog -
Human Puck Funnel - Marco Baron-
Jacques – Joseph Hughes Laperrière
Jake the Snake - Jacques Plante
Jean – Joseph Gilbert Yvon Ratelle
Johnny Vodka – Alexandr Loska
Jovo Cop - Ed Jovonovski
Killer - Doug Gilmour
King - Francis Clancy
Knuckles - Chris Nilan
Le Magnifique - Mario Lemieux
Little Beaver - Marcel Dionne
Little Napolean – John Roach
Mental Case -
Mo - Mike Modano
Moose - Mark Messier
Mr. Goalie - Glenn Hal1
Mr. Hockey - Gordie Howe
Mr. Zero - Frank Brimsek
Newsy – Edouard Lalonde
Noodles - Jamie McLennan
Old Poison – Nelson Stewart
Phat – Gordon Allan Wilson
Pie -
Pokey - Eldon Reddick
Puff Nuts - Jaromir Jagr
Punch - George Imlach
Punch - Imlach
Rat – Harry Westwick
Red - Gordon Berenson
Red Light - André Racicot
Rusty – Samuel Crawford
Saw – Terry Sawchuk
Scotty - Allan Davidson
Screwy - Brian Skrudland
Shorty – Wilfred Green
Shrimp – Roy Worters
Sideshow Bob - Bob Essensa; Darcy Tucker
Soupy - Jim Campbell
Spinner - Brian Spencer
Steamer – Fred Maxwell
Stevie Y - Steve Yzerman
Stumpy - Steve Thomas
Suitcase - Gary Smith
Sweeney – David Schriner
Teeder – Ted Kennedy
Terrible - Ted Green
Terrible Ted - Ted Lindsa
The Bandit - Peter Von Alton
The Big 'E' - Eric Lindros
The Bionic Blueberry - mario Tremblay
The Cat - Felix Potvin
The Chicoutimi Cucumber - Georges Vezina
The Dominator - Dominic Hasek
The Embalmer - Alf Pike
The Entertainer - Eddie Shack
The Flower - Guy Lafleur
The Fog - Fred Shero
The Golden Brett - Brett Hull
The Golden Jet - Bobby Hull
The Great One - Wyne Gretzky
The Grim Reaper - Stu Grimson
The Hammer - Dave Schultz
The Holy Goalie - Joe Daley
The Magic Man - Kent Nilsson
The Missing Link - Link Gaetz
The Next One - Sidney Crosby; Eric Lindros
The Pocket Rocket - Henri Richard
The Rat - Ken Linseman
The Roadrunner - Yvan Cournoyer
The Rocket - Maurice Richard
The Russian Pocket Rocket - Valeri Bure
The Russian Rocket - Pavel Bure
Tiger - Dave Williams
Tim – Miles Horton
Tiny - Cecil R. Thompson
Toe - Hector Blake
Turk – Walter Broda
Ulcers - Frank McCool
Whipper – Harry Watson

[Tomato Assasin]

Woah big list!

Little Beaver - Marcel Dionne

Poor guy!! What kind of nickname is that?

The Grim Reaper - Stu Grimson

This is the best one by far i think. Very cool!!

[primstad]

Shampo - Espen Knutsen
(sorry, but had to add him as well greatest Norwegian hockey player ever)

[cayli'smom750]

Houndog - Bob Kelly

Poor Guy lafleur...his nickname WAS "the Flower"...great tough guy name there, dude!

anyone else get "the Lighter Side of Hockey" magazine? some really funny stuff & lots of stories.