Which NHL player's name can you just not spell without looking it up?

Question

Personally I can't spell Super Mario's last name and have problems with Mike Riberio

Answer 1

These are the ones I finally learned:

- Lecavalier

- Valtteri Filppula

- Lemieux

- Ribeiro

- Giguere

- Dainius (Zubrus)

- Aebischer

Still Can't Spell:

- Niittymaki

- Paetsch

- Janne Niinimaa

- Nieuwendyk

- Francois Beauchemin

Answer 2

jarome iginla (Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla)

Answer 3

Most of the Swedes, Fins, and French Canadian names send me searching.

Answer 4

Most French Canadian and European players give me a hard time in spelling and pronunciation I never even knew Teemu's last name was pronounced as (Se-la-nee) I really thought it was pronounced "Selan", I have a hard time spelling "lundvquist?"

Answer 5

Alexie Ponikroskie

Answer 6

Um....Alexi Pokonovski's name, is hard...did...I spell it right? Oh and Guillaume Latendresse, Nikolai Khabibulin  (Goalies count as players right?),(did I spell all those last names right?) and basically all the Russian and Sweden names...They're very hard to get...Like goodness, I can't pronounce one quarter of their last names!

Answer 7

Maxim Afinogenov but thats why i call him max, or mad max

Answer 8

I always had the darndest time with Curtis Leschyshyn.

Also how would you every spell Patrick Roy's name if it were only spoken to you?

Answer 9

Here are some:

Niittymaki, Antero (G) philly

Tjarnqvist, Mathias (L) phoenix

Afinogenov, Maxim (R) buffalo

Freakin' spellcheck doesn't even help with these guys!!!

Answer 10

I just look the name up if I need to.

For some fraking reason people have problems w/ Fedorov. It's 2 Os c'mon people!

Answer 11

Valtteri Fillipula....is that right?

Answer 12

Maxim Afinogenov

Can we say Alphabet...whew

Answer 13

Niittymaki

did i spell it right?

Answer 14

Maxim Afinogenov

Jeff Woywitka ( I can barely say it either)

Answer 15

Maxim Afinogenov, I misspell his name all the time along with

Ilya Kovalchuk.

Answer 16

Lemeiux and Neidermayer

Answer 17

haha, everyone who listed above me names I can spell, but there was always one that got me everytime....who was it...

Lasse Kukkonen! He get's me everytime.

But I'm good with da Russki names...:D

Answer 18

Robyn Regher (I think that's how you spell it)

I am usually not too bad with spelling names though.

Answer 19

Antero Niittymaki

Answer 20

I have to look up Nathan Paetsch. I usually forget one of the many unnecessary letters that are in his name.

Answer 21

Toronto Maple Leaf's Alexai Ponokavorsky,  no scratch that, Alexi Pokonovski. Let me try again, Alex Ponikorovsk. One more time, Al Vanalphabet. Er something.

Answer 22

I can spell most names without looking them up, but I do have trouble with some. Some of those being:

Maxim Afinogenov

Janne Niinimaa

Jordan Lavallee-Smotherman

And if you want to get really techincal, I couldn't spell without looking up:

Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla

Answer 23

Patrick Marleau and Martin Brodeur.

Answer 24

Hi

I actually make it a point to look up most of them. Its a pet pev to have my name misspelled, and only takes a sec to search and double check the spelling.  That is of course unless its an obvious on like Konstantinov.

Thank You

Answer 25

My ways:

Ruttou (hehe sp right there)

Nittymakie (way sp rofl )

Right Ways (ty google)

ruutu, tuomo

niittymaki

Answer 26

Ziggy Palffy... i can never remember how many L's and how many F's.

Answer 27

J-S Giguere and Guillame Latendresse

Answer 28

Ian Laperriere

I always for get the first double r

Answer 29

Lemiuex and Brodeur, even though I have looked them up a million times.  I always forget the order in which the vowels go.

Answer 30

Dustin Byfuglian(Sp?)

Ahh I did mispell it. Dustin Byfuglien.

Answer 31

Niedermeyer and Joe....Neuendyk?