HOCKEY PLAYER NICKNAMES
PLAYERS FROM PAST TO PRESENT
Last Update: May 5, 2008
Career
1949-71
1926-34
1940-54
1934-48
1915-32
1938-50
1912-29
1936-52
1961-80
1921-37
1927-47
1910-28
1925-37
1926-37
1963-79
1912-26
1924-38
1936-54
1919-31
1944-61
1981-00
1950-68
1983-03
1929-43
1923-27
1979-99
1988-02
1926-37
1952-71
1941-55
1904-11
1928-40
1946-80
1957-80
1898-04
1929-44
1905-31
1926-38
1915-29
1970-82
1947-67
1942-57
1971-85
1971-91
1904-27
1944-65
1978-92
1943-60
1914-30
1956-78
1908-24
1928-45
1910-20
1902-06
1979-04
1958-80
1951-68
1901-17
1923-37
1912-30
1928-39
1941-51
1966-79
1903-26
1951-75
1986-94
1955-75
1942-60
1972-92
1967-78
1934-46
1971-80
1958-75
1926-40
1925-39
1921-31
1924-41
1938-52
1925-40
1907-23
1928-40
1910-26
1928-39
1918-33
1949-74
1925-37
Nickname
Chief
Ace
Dipsy-Doodle Dandy
Toe
Buck
Mr Zero
Punch
Turk
Cheesy
King
Dit
Peg
The Big Train
Bun
Roadrunner
Rusty
Hap, Happy
Woody
Babe
Fern
Coco
Boom Boom
Killer
Ebbie
Shorty
Great One, Gretz, 99
The Grim Reaper
Little George
Mr. Goalie
Sugar
Riley
Red
Gordie, Mr. Hockey
The Golden Jet
Bouse
Busher
Moose
Ching
Duke
Houndog
Red
Teeder
King Kong
Flower
Newsy
Terrible
The Rat
Apple Cheeks
Mickey
Big M
Phantom
Mush
Steamer
One-Eyed
Moose
Stosh
Dickie
Paddy
The Stratford Streak
Flying Dutchman
Baldy
Buddy
Number 4
The Silver Fox
Jake the Snake
Pokey
Pocket Rocket
Rocket
Big Bird
The Turk
Sweeney
The Hammer
The Entertainer
Edmonton Express
Babe
Bullet Joe
Hooley
Black Jack
Old Poison
Cyclone
Tiny
Chicoutimi Cucumber
Cooney
Phat
Gump
Shrimp
Player
Armstrong, George
Bailey, Irvine
Bentley, Max
Blake, Hector
Boucher, George
Brimsek, Frank
Broadbent, Harry
Broda, Walter
Cheevers, Gerry
Clancy, Francis
Clapper, Aubrey
Cleghorn, Sprague
Conacher, Lionel
Cook, Fred
Cournoyer, Yvan
Crawford, Samuel
Day, Clarence
Dumart, Woodrow
Dye, Cecil Henry
Flaman, Ferdinard
Fuhr, Grant
Geoffrion, Bernard
Gilmour, Doug
Goodfellow, Ebenezer
Green, Wilfred
Gretzky, Wayne
Grimson, Stu
Hainsworth, George
Hall, Glenn
Henry, Jim
Hern, William
Horner, George
Howe, Gordon
Hull, Bobby
Hutton, John
Jackson, Harvey
Johnson, Ernest
Johnson, Ivan
Keats, Gordon
Kelly, Bob
Kelly, Leonard
Kennedy, Theodore
Korab, Jerry
Lafleur, Guy
Lalonde, Edouard
Lindsay, Ted
Linesman, Ken
Lumley, Harry
MacKay, Duncan
Mahovlich, Frank
Malone, Joe
March, Harold
Maxwell, Fred
McGee, Frank
Messier, Mark
Mikita, Stan
Moore, Richard
Moran, Patrick
Morenz, Howie
Nighbor, Frank
Northcott, Lawrence
O'Conner, Herbert
Orr, Bobby
Patrick, Lester
Plante, Jacques
Reddick, Wade
Richard, Henri
Richard, Maurice
Robinson, Larry
Sanderson, Derek
Schriner, David
Schultz, David
Shack, Eddie
Shore, Eddie
Siebert, Albert
Simpson, Harold
Smith, Reginald
Stewart, John
Stewart, Nels
Taylor, Fredric
Thompson, Cecil
Vezina, Georges
Weiland, Ralph
Wilson, Gordon
Worsley, Lorne
Worters, Roy
Top 10
Great Nicknames
1 Rocket Richard
2 Cyclone Taylor
3 Newsy Lalonde
4 Gump Worsley
5 Boom Boom Geoffrion
6 Busher Jackson
7 Ace Bailey
8 Toe Blake
9 Ching Johnson
10 Bun Cook
Great nicknames are the ones that become substitutes for the players real name.
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