Kari Lehtonen
Toni Lydman ( Toni with an "i" how sweet )
Patrice Brisebois
Jussi Jokinen ( Mom. We need to talk!! Jussi )
Jussi Markkanen ( As if one Jussi isn't bad enough )
Jussi Timonen ( I think the Jussi sister's should get together and start their own team )
Kim Johnsson
Joni Pitkanen
Jocelyn Thibault
Valeri Bure
Can some one tell how is it that all of these girls can play hockey but you won't let Manon Rheaume play? It's just not fair.
2006-12-30 17:01:40 · 21 answers · asked by Stealing Home 2 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Hoshi and Kuma means star and bear Those are my dogs names. Poor hockey. no wonder you have such a small fan base.
Say what you want about my dogs but at least they don't have girls names.
2006-12-30 19:01:23 · update #1
To each their own. If they don't have a problem with their name then neither should we.
As a hockey fan a and a guy I will have to admit that Toni with an i is pushing it a little.
2006-12-30 19:08:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hoshi and Kuma may mean star and bear but it sounds a lot more sissy than Kari and Jussi. Sounds to me like the pot is calling the kettle black. Let me guess, you can't play? Those that can't play make fun of those that can. Jealousy. Such an ugly thing.
2006-12-31 08:35:23 · answer #2 · answered by lidstromnumber1fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other cultures in other parts of the world name their children different things. So many NHL players are from slavic, germanic, and nordic countries that there's bound to be a huge variety among player's names. Hockey is one of the few sports that has a hold in the US that is truly international. People come from everywhere in the world to play; recently, the first-ever Japanese player came into the NHL as a goaltender. As for your comment about a "small" fan base, have you tried getting Buffalo
Sabres tickets lately? I wouldn't recommend it, because every home game for the entire rest of the season is completely sold out. But you go right on saying that hockey has a small fan base. I will just sit here and chuckle.
2006-12-31 07:40:17 · answer #3 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh you can look up what YOUR name means but don't think that maybe THEIR names mean something? Although your question pretty much explains that. Although since you seem to be focusing on how they look as an AMERICAN instead of the fact that ALMOST no hockey players in the NHL are American. It is because there are so many people like you that hockey has a small BUT LOYAL fan base. Half the people who talk football, if not more, talk the sport and their team to blend in. They don't have a clue about the sport if you start talking on a high level of it. Just say how about them _____? and you get an answer about oh yeah we had a great game Sunday. Yeah to bad your team played like crap and won because of one side. Like teams that have won because their defense, and didn't even get 100 yards offense. That wasn't a great game unless you didn't hold the ball for more then like 20 plays. Yeah I know the sport. I have a habit of knowing sports if I am going to talk about the sport. I work nights so don't get to watch the hockey games as much as I'd like. At least I understand what I am watching when I do get to watch though.
2006-12-30 20:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
*sigh* Every time someone brings this up, all it does is show how little the person understands about the sport. American football is NOT rugby. Football is a game of high-speed collisions, not controlled tackles. I love rugby, but the violence is highly controlled. If it weren't, rugby players would die on a regular basis. Most of the hits that take place in a football game would get you a yellow card -- or worse -- in rugby. In rugby, you're responsible for taking the ball carrier safely to the ground. You can't leave your feet to tackle, you can't spear someone, and you can't take someone's body past the horizontal. In football, you can launch your body like a missile into somebody if you want to. Plus, there are the blindside hits in football. You almost never have them in rugby, because the ball is always the offside line. In football, they happen all the time -- and you can't prepare your body for the hit you never see coming. Rugby is a contact sport. Football is a collision sport. Apples and oranges.
2016-05-22 22:56:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lay off the Jussi's... It's Finnish for Jack.
Talk about culture shock! Who cares what their name is? They obivously can play the game! Because the NHL welcomes players from other countries, we're going to hassle them about their names? Find something better to do with your time.
2006-12-31 04:56:54 · answer #6 · answered by burnttea06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French
2006-12-31 05:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by Speed Of Thought 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What might be a sissy name to you is not a sissy name in other countries where lots of these players are from.
Plus, go up to any NHL player and call him a sissy. See what happens
2006-12-31 01:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by mikea_va 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may have what youconsider to be sissy, but I'll bet anyone of them could beat your sorry butt.
Don't judge a book by it's cover. Many of these players are from other countries, where their naming conventions maybe different.
2006-12-30 17:11:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no one with the name yoshi and kumar or whatever your name is should be making fun of peoples names. besides, most hockey players are from countries overseas, where names differ and all that other junk, thats something you should know about it. in those countries, they probably think something like john smith is a sissy name
2006-12-30 18:05:00 · answer #10 · answered by andrew b 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋