Have you ever mispronounced a player's name really badly?

Question

Who was the player?

Answer 1

derrick roy  

called him Derrick  (woa)

Answer 2

the hardest name to pronounce is jklaf aklfjkfhouaf try it

Answer 3

When Roman Cechmanek was drafted I pronounced his name really badly.

Answer 4

Jaromir Jye a gar

Answer 5

I couldn't say Paille for like the first whole season eh played, I had to really pay attention to when someone said it. I can't say Toews, either. I'm retarded.

Answer 6

Back when Branden Shannahan played his first game with the wings we were having a party and we all started calling him Shannon Brandahan.....took a long time to get it straight by the way.

Answer 7

Everytime I talk about Jonathan Toews, I have to say his name like 5 time to get it right, and I used to call Maxim Afinogenov, Afiafenogenov..well, I still call him like that just cuz my brothers hate it. lol

The announcers on RDS (its like TSN in french) mispronounced almost every players name, even some french guy's name, like Kris Letang. I'll try to find a link on youtube so you guys can hear how bad they pronounce the names.

Answer 8

yeah all the time. and it's not only the long last names, sometimes it's the short last names like budaj etc...

alexi ponikoravsky and andy wozneiwski's

Answer 9

I absoluely butchered Justin Abdelkader's last name.

Answer 10

Jamoir Jagr.

I pronounced all the J's! it sounded like: Ja-O-meer Jagg-er

Answer 11

everybody pronounces Alexander Semin's name wrong

Answer 12

I've always pronounced Derek Roy's name like Patrick Roy until I realized it's pronounced the way it's spelled...

Answer 13

From my early years, the most memorable butcher jobs:

Yvan Cournoyer = Yvan Cor-Nor-Yer

Emile Francis = Emily Francis

Gilbert Perreault = Gil-Bert Perry-Alt

Pierre Lemieux = Pierre Lem-E-Ucks

Jacques Lemaire = Jock-Wess La-Mary

Jean Ratelle = Gene Ratelli

Honest to God, I'm not kidding. My neighbor used to crack up when he had me read the names off of his hockey card collection.

Answer 14

Malkins firstname. First time i said it i said ev-geenie. I got some funny looks.

Answer 15

Jonathan Towes.......I say Toes.  Everybody likes to correct me and say.....Taves.  I think that is wrong....There is not a freaking V in his name.

TDK:  I am glad I am not the only one!

Answer 16

Stanislav Neckar.Pronounced (Nets-Cash).

Answer 17

If it looks hard...I try not to pronounce it...lol

My firends daughter (shes 3) calls AO....Ale-yick-zaner Ovenchicken.....its adorable.

LMAO @ NIPS

Answer 18

I pronounced Roy the way it looks until I learned it was pronounced "wrah"...

Answer 19

This happened before I started watching hockey. So anyways my cousin is a huge Patrick Roy fan and the way he pronounced it was Wa so I thought he was of Asian descent and once I said Patrick Wong. Boy did my cousins ever get a crack out of that.

Answer 20

ha yeah when I first saw Branko Radivojevic I was speechless

but i got it down now...ra-dih-VOI-uh-vihch

Answer 21

dustin byfuglien, i said how its spelled, but its pronounced buflin.

homes, i said that wrong to, but then someone corrected me to taes, but it was still wrong, and finally, i got it right.

Answer 22

Not me but the announcer Chuck Kaiton calls Sergei Samsonav

Sergei Samsolov

I know it doesn't look bad but he says it really badly

Answer 23

Yeah...i f*cked up with Toews too..same with Kopecky.

Answer 24

Diesuke Matsusakaka

Answer 25

Sam F'torek

Answer 26

Jonathan Toews.  My brain just absolutely rejects that word!  I have no idea why it is pronounced "Taves".

Answer 27

Heck yeah! To this day I still cant say Pronger without Fagner coming out.