Currently, the NHL has players from over 20 different countries and with all that diversity, you are bound to get some pretty awesome hockey names.  We here at WUYS truly appreciated the weird and wonderful, so we thought we’d share some of our favorite NHL players names with you.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE?

Chuck loves –

• Nino Niederreiter – first time I heard them announce it on TV, thought they were saying “Nino Neenerniner” and from there, I was hooked.  Plus it is way fun to say!  NINO NEENERNINER!
• Antero Niittymäki – Pants likes this one too.  Sounds like sushi.  Looks like Hello Kitty character. AND it has an umlat!  Umlats are cool.
• Haakan Loob – need we say more?
• Guillaume Latendresse – sound like a fancy Napoleonic super spy…or a character in “Les Miserables”
• Zarley Zalapski – Because who doesn’t love some alliteration?
• Dino Ciccarelli – that’s not a hockey player.  That is the head of a major Mafioso crime family
• Darren Puppa – you said “poopa”. Hehehe.
• Mats André Zuccarello Aasen – just because…

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Pants loves –

• Johnny Oduya – “Oh, do ya?”  Plus, he’s Swedish and Kenyan.  Huh?
• Ryan Shannon – So she can be known as Shannon-squared.  Don’t know if Mr. Pants would be so thrilled about this.

Dawncherrie loves –

• Miroslav Satan – Uh, his last name is SATAN!  Totally demonic
• Peter Sidorkiewicz – just because it is really long
• Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond – ditto.  Can that even fit on the back of a sweater?
• Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers – double ditto

Chocolate Iced loves –

• Mats Sundin – uber Nordic
• Adam Foote

Honorable mentions to:

• Oggie Oglethorpe (from the quintessential hockey movie “Slapshot”)
• Jeff Beukeboom
• Bob Beers