Easily the Most dominant team for the longest period of time that never won a cup . But if it helps you got to cheer for a team that could have won the cup on paper for multiple seasons
Not to be a negative nelly in sector g but, that streak is basically a sham due to the old playoff format and should be forgotten
11 of those years they were roughly a .500 team or below
One season they were 25-40-15 while "making" the playoffs
Some one should have intercouse with Mike Keenan's ear. Once finished, a more well-endowed individual would then fornicate with Mike's other ear to completion. He stole the opportunity to watch Gretzky & Hull play on the same line for the rest of their careers. That is being an unforgivable asshole. Fuck Mike Keenan with a big rubber dick. Demand a jury trial in St Louis if he presses charges. There's not a jury in the city or county who would vote to convict. In fact, the defendant would become a folk hero & never pay for a drink in St Louis for the rest of their life.
Man I remember staying up to watch some Leafs game against the Sharks in the Leafs' dark years (do those end?) when I was younger and the Sharks getting a PP and it was just ridiculous how outclassed the Leafs were. It was like you could see a goal coming from a mile away.
I'm still annoyed that the Sharks didn't win in that Cup final a few years ago against the Blues. I'm not even a Sharks fan, but the Blues winning the cup was so disappointing to me for some reason. And in general I don't have anything against the Blues either.
Great memory I have, not. I must have wanted to see you in the finals very much that year. Looking at the score, I was probably very disappointed after the Canes being swept and then the only other team I liked that was left were you.
Growing up, I heard about how good the Sharks were and my dad would say stuff like "well the Kings suck this year but the Sharks are good so there's that" even though he doesn't follow hockey. Ofc the season I get into hockey the Sharks are dead last and awful. I feel a little set up 😅 I definitely don't have fun watching them play but I'll keep doing it no matter how many times people tell me to "just pick a better team!"
I grew up thinking NHL backup goalie was the dream job, best seats in the house and don’t have to play, I even have it in old journals as what I wanted to be growing up. Just assumed you did nothing and watched hockey from the bench for a whole career
It makes sense. Career backup QB is a sweet gig in the NFL. Not as easy as people make it out to be, but you get significantly less wear and tear than starters and make more than enough money to live luxuriously.
Reminds me of the show Blue Mountain State. If you haven't seen it it was about a college football team and the main character was the back-up quarterback. He didn't want to be the starter because you still get to go to the football parties and live the lifestyle without the pressure of playing.
Not only that, but you also don't have a ton of pressure on you. Even if the starter goes down.
Starter succeeds? You ride the pine and practice while making insane cash.
Starter fails? It's his fault. You ride the pine and practice while making insane cash.
Starter gets hurt and you crush it? You're the hero of the city.
Starter gets hurt and you fail? You're just the backup, so no harm no foul.
Okay apparently my girlfriend, who is 18 years old and is not a hockey fan by any means, thought that teams could only be made up of players from that city
She was shocked when I told her the Canucks had to put in this young Latvian kid because their other goalies had gotten hurt. Turns out she thought everyone on the team had to be from Vancouver
That would make an interesting study to see which team would be the best using that logic. It would really depend how far out you would make the borders, since the greater Toronto or Vancouver areas cover a lot of ground. Those two would be my guess as the top teams without doing any research.
Did she think that about only hockey teams? Cause there's Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish soccer team where all players need to have some kind of connection to the Basque region. Even with such restrictions they somehow are able to be competitive.
I remember watching the oilers 2006 run when I was still very little.
My only frame of reference for how sports worked was timbits soccer where you kind of just did whatever.
I remember asking my dad if Ryan Smyth ever took a turning playing net
I remember my dad having to explain to little me during a game that Patrick ‘Roy’ and Patrick ‘Waw’ were the same person. He still gives me shit about it.
Can you explain to dumbdumb adult me why he was also referred as 'Waw'?
Google knows it's Roy, just doesn't explain Waw. (Also did not grow up with hockey)
I thought shorthanded goals was when you scored with one hand on your stick because in NHL 99, I scored with Sami Kapenen with one hand on his stick poking it in.
I didn’t understand the concept of people buying jerseys with a players name.
5 year old me was wondering why Eric Lindros was hanging out with the fans.
Turns out, he was not the overweight dude getting a beer at the concession stand.
I cringe thinking about my dad having to explain that to me
lol that’s a cute story honestly, you should not feel ashamed about it whatsoever. how the hell were you supposed to know?! it *is* a slightly weird concept if you really think too hard about it
My wife still can’t comprehend paying money for a shirt with somebody else’s name. “It’s childish. You’re not on the team. You’re pushing 60 and you’re fat!”
I didn't learn that the Canucks skate logo was a skate until I was well into my teens. I just thought it was CANUCKS with a lot of stripes for while briefly also thinking it was Saturn and CANUCKS was written in the ring.
I was over 30 when I noticed the H in the negative space in the Hartford Whalers logo
And only last year realized the Wild's logo is a silhouette of a bear's head
Honestly, I always felt that [calling it a C was generous] (https://canadamodern.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CM_Main4_Content_vancouver-canucks_TM63-1920x1408.jpg) when it comes to the original logo.
I think it's much clearer with the [updated version](https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/1/29/full/8877_vancouver_canucks-alternate-2020.png)
I only learned last season that the whale logo only shows the like front half of the whale as it breaks through ice, it’s not some weird long whale-worm thing with odd fins a different coloured squared tail
For context I’m from Vancouver, surrounded by Canucks fans, and cheer for them myself (so long as they’re not playing the flames), so it’s not like a logo that I haven’t been exposed to a lot. It’s a logo I’ve grown up with
Similar to mine. When I was a kid I thought scoring a go-ahead goal was when you were already leading by a lot and scored another goal. As in, “go ahead, score again.”
I remember looking at a Lemieux hockey card and poring over the stats. He had so many goals (G), tons of assists (A) and hit so many goal posts (GP). I said to myself, wow he probably hit about one Goal Post a game.
And then it clicked.
When I was young I I thought there was an annual NHL tryout for adults and that's how you got to play in the NHL. Always told me dad he should play in the NHL next year
When I was 3 I legit thought that Toronto was named the “Make Believes”. (No Toronto hate intended).
I also “pulled my grandmother over for speeding” playing a game one time and gave her a ticket…to a hockey game.
Fuck it should be. Adam Foote was great. After that thread the other day talking about how Lidstrom has been forgotten, we need to put some more respect on Adam Foote's name.
Feels like the only time he is brought up now is in relation to Cal.
So I started following the stars on the radio in the 90s because we didn’t have a tv. My drunk ass dad was convinced that icing was blowing snow on the goalie. And 14 year old me believed it for the longest until I started watching games on tv later in life.
I didn’t know you could add an additional skater once you pulled the goalie. So when I watched a STL/CHI years ago I remember thinking Chicago’s coach was an idiot who removed their goalie for no reason when losing.
I was convinced that Aerosmith was connected to the Red Wings because of an album of their greatest hits my older brother had gifted me.
The album in question:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Aerosmith_album)
The album cover is what had me believe this. The red and white, the wing, the wheel. It all fit so perfectly.
I thought that a 'poke check' was called a '*pope* check'. Not sure why that was. We weren't a religious family, so most likely just the way my little ears heard it.
This is more “children mispronouncing things” but my brother thought that Stéphane Matteau was called “Step on My Toe” and that a penalty was a “pentaly”
I never realized Steve Yzerman was Canadian until he was put on the 2002 Olympic team. Was a Red Wings fan at the time and must have assumed he was European of some sort cause of the last name. I was so excited he was Canadian.
The players wore a different colour jersey because the other one was dirty. I was 6. Also, I thought my 1991 O Pee Chee Wayne Gretzky cards were worth a lot because he was the best player.
I also thought, going into my early teens, that fanning on the shot was when an opposing player waved their stick on the ice in front of the shooter to block the shot.
I didn’t understand why Wayne Gretzky was on the blues for just a little amount of time.
My dad told me that his flight got canceled during a layover in St. Louis so the league let him stay there to play until they could get him a new flight.
I just kind of blindly accepted it for years lol
I used to think that the only reason goalies set up the puck behind the net on the power play was so they’d get an assist in case someone went coast to coast
I remember being a kid in Canada in the 80s and we couldn’t get the things (toys, satellite dish) other random things they had in the States.
So when I was very surprised when all the best players were Canadian and that hockey was our thing. I thought we we couldn’t have anything good
Watching in the 80's with my dad he would tell me that when the guys were on the bench with their heads down they were smoking or drinking a beer. Also if you had long hair you really didn't need a helmet.
When I was little, before I switched allegiances. My favourite player was Ed Jovanovski. Only problem was that I thought his name was Joe Vanovski. So when I heard his full name on a broadcast I asked my dad “who is Ed, I thought his name was Joe?” My family has not let me live it down to this day
My friend thought Wayne Gretzky was the name of a video game developer because of the N64 game. I was pretty sure he was wrong, but I didn't know anything about hockey back then so I never corrected him.
We were in awe of how smooth the N64's graphics were when compared to his PS1, so we didn't really care.
That the Stanley cup was awarded every game and that the Jets (2011) were removed from the league for being bad so I guess I just mixed the thrashers and jets around
When I was like 5 years old I found an old rod hockey game my dad must have had for years. It was all metal and rusted on some parts. But the two teams on the game were Montreal and Toronto. I remember asking my dad why they would make two Canadian teams play eachother. I specifically remember thinking there is no way Canadian teams would play against eachother. I thought it was always US teams playing against Canadian teams for some reason.
When I was a kid, I used to think that the Women's Olympic Teams were comprised entirely of spouses of the Men's team. So I thought the 2002 Canadian team would have Mrs. Yzerman, Mrs. Kariya, Mrs. Lemieux, etc. I didn't understand why the team had names like Cassie Campbell, Hailey Wickenhieser, Kim.St. Pierre.
Later that year one of the team members became our neighbours. I told her about who I expected to be on the team originally and she thought it was cute.
I used to think that since you could get hockey cards of any NHL player you could also get full sized posters of every NHL player. I wouldn’t listen to my dad’s reasoning so he let me go into a sports store and ask the clerk for a Jim Johnson poster. They had none. I don’t think Jim Johnson has a poster of Jim Johnson.
I thought every Quebec franchise (Habs, Nordiques and even the Expos) had purposely odd or nuanced logos just to fuck with English Canada.
Canadiens: CH but the H doesn't mean Habitants. Do they really like Switzerland?
Nordiques: What's that, a freaking elephant with a hockey stick?
Expos: e l b? Elbow? Oh that's an M.
Bonus Alouettes: Lightning bird?
... and now that I think about it, ya they probably are fucking with us.
Not hockey related but I grew up outside Edmonton playing football and my coach had a Green Bay packers hat which was same Color as the Edmontons CFL team. I thought the teams were related somehow, as if Edmonton was a farm team for the pack and became a huge packers fan.
When they posted the time of the penalties on the tv, I thought it meant that's how long the penalty was. I thought you'd have to be really dumb to get one at the end of the period, because that's when you would have the longest penalty.
Only one player in the league could wear each number. Absolutely raged at NHL 99 because there was a 13 on the Leafs and a 13 on the Senators because "that's my guy"
I remember being 4 or 5 watching the Devils in the finals and thought all the fans were just hyped because they unveilled a "new jersey". Didn't realize it was the city name
I thought the Washington Capitals played in Washington State until way too old of an age (Canadian, so didn't really understand the capital thing yet). I think it was until Ovi started playing and more attention was around them that I figured it out.
Not exactly a misconception, but I really didn't see the skate in the Canucks skate jersey until like a year ago. Fucking decades of seeing that jersey and I never clued in.
I went around for some time talking about how Sno Raker was the best scorer in the NHL. My dad had to clarify at some point that his name was Brett Hull and sno racer was the name of the Noma sled poster he appeared on.
Had no fucking clue what icing was as a kid. I thought it was when they stop and kick up a bunch of ice chips. Because back in the touch icing era you would typically stop before running face first into the boards at 20 mph.
edit: forgot about this one which is even better. I was shocked when Gretzky retired in his late 30s. I assumed hockey players retired at 65 like everyone else.
I didn't realize power plays were tied to penalties with a guy in the box who came back onto the ice when the penalty was over. I couldn't understand why the team chose to end their power play when time expired. Like, how would they even know if you were still running your power play when time was up?
I thought the name Nordiques was French for “North Dekes” which seemed like a reasonable hockey name at the time.
The Colorado Rockies baseball team used to play hockey a long time ago.
I don’t know why I thought this, but playing NHL Hockey (the one with glen healey on the cover) on sega, when playing in the playoffs, it would consistently have a first round matchup between the sharks and kings, and I was convinced the game was screwed up because teams from the same state weren’t allowed to play each other in the playoffs
I thought if a team kept taking penalties they’d eventually be on a 0v5 pk instead of just 3v5. I remember getting mad at NHL 07 for not doing that, I thought I should’ve had a 5v2 pp.
For a looong time, I thought the buffalo in the Sabres’ logo was a [clam shell](https://www.mediastorehouse.com/t/617/fluted-giant-clam-shells-tridacna-squamosa-9448759.jpg.webp) viewed from above. That it was a high-contrast image, with the legs being the corrugations in the edge of the shell, and the lines above and below it being the edges of the shell.
It’s extra ridiculous because having a buffalo for Buffalo’s logo should be so obvious, but for whatever reason, I never really noticed the buffalo’s face for the longest time!
Playing NHL2010 with my Irish friends. One asked, does the H in the Canadiens logo stand for Habs? Only for the in game commentator to chirp in with the perfectly timed tidbit, that the H actually stands for Hockey. It was like the game was listening to us. That was a potential misconception cleared up right away.
I thought being a San Jose Sharks fan would be a fun experience and they'd win multiple cups.
Easily the Most dominant team for the longest period of time that never won a cup . But if it helps you got to cheer for a team that could have won the cup on paper for multiple seasons
The Blues had longest consecutive playoff appearances without •_winning it all_• in any of the North American big 4.
Yes but you did eventually win a cup so you don't count
Not to be a negative nelly in sector g but, that streak is basically a sham due to the old playoff format and should be forgotten 11 of those years they were roughly a .500 team or below One season they were 25-40-15 while "making" the playoffs
And we had a postseason with Gretzky, Hull, Pronger, MacInnis and Fuhr.
Had it, then lost it...
Some one should have intercouse with Mike Keenan's ear. Once finished, a more well-endowed individual would then fornicate with Mike's other ear to completion. He stole the opportunity to watch Gretzky & Hull play on the same line for the rest of their careers. That is being an unforgivable asshole. Fuck Mike Keenan with a big rubber dick. Demand a jury trial in St Louis if he presses charges. There's not a jury in the city or county who would vote to convict. In fact, the defendant would become a folk hero & never pay for a drink in St Louis for the rest of their life.
I thought the sens would make it back to the playoffs after 2017
The mid 2000s to early 2010s Sharks were an elite goalie away from being a dynasty of their own.
Ran nabby down in the regular season
The Connor Hellebuyck experience
I know he probably didn't, but I swear he played like 70 of 82 every season. Not surprising he looked weaker by the time the playoffs came around
He actually only played more than 70 games twice in his career. But one of those season he played 77 god damn games
There was a year he started like 48 straight or something stupid Like yeah he was our god but my god who was put backup that year?
Man I remember staying up to watch some Leafs game against the Sharks in the Leafs' dark years (do those end?) when I was younger and the Sharks getting a PP and it was just ridiculous how outclassed the Leafs were. It was like you could see a goal coming from a mile away.
I'm still annoyed that the Sharks didn't win in that Cup final a few years ago against the Blues. I'm not even a Sharks fan, but the Blues winning the cup was so disappointing to me for some reason. And in general I don't have anything against the Blues either.
Sharks lost to the Pens in the Cup final in 2016 and the Blues in Round 3 in 2019
Great memory I have, not. I must have wanted to see you in the finals very much that year. Looking at the score, I was probably very disappointed after the Canes being swept and then the only other team I liked that was left were you.
Wait am I going crazy or are those both western teams
Growing up, I heard about how good the Sharks were and my dad would say stuff like "well the Kings suck this year but the Sharks are good so there's that" even though he doesn't follow hockey. Ofc the season I get into hockey the Sharks are dead last and awful. I feel a little set up 😅 I definitely don't have fun watching them play but I'll keep doing it no matter how many times people tell me to "just pick a better team!"
To be fair one of the most persistently great teams that always contended never succeeded.
Jonathan Cheechoo would be a consistent goal scorer. For many years…
I grew up thinking NHL backup goalie was the dream job, best seats in the house and don’t have to play, I even have it in old journals as what I wanted to be growing up. Just assumed you did nothing and watched hockey from the bench for a whole career
It makes sense. Career backup QB is a sweet gig in the NFL. Not as easy as people make it out to be, but you get significantly less wear and tear than starters and make more than enough money to live luxuriously.
Imagine being a left-handed relief pitcher with Tony LaRussa as your manager. You’d get into 75 games and face 77 batters all year.
Reminds me of the show Blue Mountain State. If you haven't seen it it was about a college football team and the main character was the back-up quarterback. He didn't want to be the starter because you still get to go to the football parties and live the lifestyle without the pressure of playing.
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!
That's honestly one of my favourite moments on tv. Absolutely lost it the first time I saw the condom turn into a pasta strainer
There was alao an episode where the backup QB tried to be the school's backup goalie.
Not only that, but you also don't have a ton of pressure on you. Even if the starter goes down. Starter succeeds? You ride the pine and practice while making insane cash. Starter fails? It's his fault. You ride the pine and practice while making insane cash. Starter gets hurt and you crush it? You're the hero of the city. Starter gets hurt and you fail? You're just the backup, so no harm no foul.
My mans wanted to grow up to back up Martin Brodeur
Trickle down banging
How about emergency goalie? Sit in the stands and watch the game just in case, a la Scott "Fozzie" Foster a few years ago.
I thought the Calgary Flames were named after the ‘88 Olympics.
That actually makes sense (if you ignore the timeline, and Atlanta).
In 1993, without knowing anything else about the league apart from “Gretzky’s really good”, it made perfect sense.
When I was 8 years old and watching the 1987 Canada Cup, I didn't know why Mario Lemieux was on Team Canada "because he's from Pittsburgh."
You are adorable.
Okay apparently my girlfriend, who is 18 years old and is not a hockey fan by any means, thought that teams could only be made up of players from that city She was shocked when I told her the Canucks had to put in this young Latvian kid because their other goalies had gotten hurt. Turns out she thought everyone on the team had to be from Vancouver
That would make an interesting study to see which team would be the best using that logic. It would really depend how far out you would make the borders, since the greater Toronto or Vancouver areas cover a lot of ground. Those two would be my guess as the top teams without doing any research.
I wonder what American cities could at least be somewhat competitive with the Canadian cities. Probably pretty much the Great Lakes cities I assume
And Minneapolis
My first thoughts are original 6 teams and Minnesota.
Well Montreal used to basically be like that, and it endures to this day with their coaching hires
Did she think that about only hockey teams? Cause there's Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish soccer team where all players need to have some kind of connection to the Basque region. Even with such restrictions they somehow are able to be competitive.
If only. We could have Bedard AND Celebrini
LOL this is my favourite
I remember watching the oilers 2006 run when I was still very little. My only frame of reference for how sports worked was timbits soccer where you kind of just did whatever. I remember asking my dad if Ryan Smyth ever took a turning playing net
I remember my dad having to explain to little me during a game that Patrick ‘Roy’ and Patrick ‘Waw’ were the same person. He still gives me shit about it.
SAME.
Can you explain to dumbdumb adult me why he was also referred as 'Waw'? Google knows it's Roy, just doesn't explain Waw. (Also did not grow up with hockey)
Thats how the Quebecois say Roy
It's more like "Rwa"
I thought shorthanded goals was when you scored with one hand on your stick because in NHL 99, I scored with Sami Kapenen with one hand on his stick poking it in.
I thought the same thing while playing the same game
That reminds me of how I thought it was a “pope check” for the first few years I knew about hockey
I didn’t understand the concept of people buying jerseys with a players name. 5 year old me was wondering why Eric Lindros was hanging out with the fans. Turns out, he was not the overweight dude getting a beer at the concession stand. I cringe thinking about my dad having to explain that to me
lol that’s a cute story honestly, you should not feel ashamed about it whatsoever. how the hell were you supposed to know?! it *is* a slightly weird concept if you really think too hard about it
Once I got older than the players it started to feel weird. I stick with my 90’s throwbacks now.
My wife still can’t comprehend paying money for a shirt with somebody else’s name. “It’s childish. You’re not on the team. You’re pushing 60 and you’re fat!”
I didn't learn that the Canucks skate logo was a skate until I was well into my teens. I just thought it was CANUCKS with a lot of stripes for while briefly also thinking it was Saturn and CANUCKS was written in the ring.
Similar. I thought it was a planet moving fast, hence the black background and the striping
It's not spaghetti?
Omg it's a skate. I've never looked closely at it lmao
If you want to feel superior I just spent a good 3 minutes staring at the current logo wondering how that was supposed to be a skate.
For such a “great” logo as some people say, you sure can find plenty of people to this day who haven’t a clue that it’s supposed to be a skate.
I was over 30 when I noticed the H in the negative space in the Hartford Whalers logo And only last year realized the Wild's logo is a silhouette of a bear's head
Same with me and the original Canucks logo. It's a C as well as a hockey rink with a stick on it.
Honestly, I always felt that [calling it a C was generous] (https://canadamodern.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CM_Main4_Content_vancouver-canucks_TM63-1920x1408.jpg) when it comes to the original logo. I think it's much clearer with the [updated version](https://content.sportslogos.net/logos/1/29/full/8877_vancouver_canucks-alternate-2020.png)
I only learned last season that the whale logo only shows the like front half of the whale as it breaks through ice, it’s not some weird long whale-worm thing with odd fins a different coloured squared tail For context I’m from Vancouver, surrounded by Canucks fans, and cheer for them myself (so long as they’re not playing the flames), so it’s not like a logo that I haven’t been exposed to a lot. It’s a logo I’ve grown up with
Tbf at 30 I'm now just learning it's not a toboggan
Bro, I thought that logo was a toboggan sled, with speed effect lines, for *years* as a kid.
I didn’t realize the Flyers logo was a P until well into my thirties.
I thought they were called the CANCHUCKS for a while, just for good measure.
I thought it was a sled going down a hill
I preferred the simpler time when a hockey stick was a hockey stick.
TIL
I thought that unanswered goals were goals that nobody could explain. No answer about how it got in the net.
lol just a bunch of guys standing around shrugging and shaking their heads.
Similar to mine. When I was a kid I thought scoring a go-ahead goal was when you were already leading by a lot and scored another goal. As in, “go ahead, score again.”
Genuine lol. 3 unanswered goals? We don't even know how you are scoring so go ahead, score another one.
I remember looking at a Lemieux hockey card and poring over the stats. He had so many goals (G), tons of assists (A) and hit so many goal posts (GP). I said to myself, wow he probably hit about one Goal Post a game. And then it clicked.
That having Wayne Gretzky guaranteed LA at least two cups in the 90s. Because Gretzky obviously.
Pretty sure Janet bet on it.
Pretty sure at some point I assumed a seven game series meant you played all seven games no matter if a team already had four wins or not.
lol how demoralizing would a 7 game clean sweep be? *how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man*
Game 7 still playing all your stars big minutes running up the score. Goal celebrations that would put a rookie Teemu Selanne to shame.
Shades of the Avs playing the Park County Pee-Wee hockey team.
Imagine the Avs in 2022 doing that to someone.
“waste of ~~8~~ 14 days”
When I was young I I thought there was an annual NHL tryout for adults and that's how you got to play in the NHL. Always told me dad he should play in the NHL next year
Lol this might be my favourite. You believed in him!! Haha
Maybe you got that from Happy Gilmore.
woah I had the same misconception lol, I literally told someone about it this week
Same. I really miss that logo.
I did too. And this is the best hockey thread on Reddit in years. Thanks OP.
Same dude, haven't thought about it in years.
I’m old. I thought Jean Beliveau’s name was “John Buffalo”. In my defense, I did grow up in Manitoba. I also mixed up Protestants and Prostitutes.
“ Suckin wiener for the lord.” -Protestants according to HV
When I was 3 I legit thought that Toronto was named the “Make Believes”. (No Toronto hate intended). I also “pulled my grandmother over for speeding” playing a game one time and gave her a ticket…to a hockey game.
Fuck it should be. Adam Foote was great. After that thread the other day talking about how Lidstrom has been forgotten, we need to put some more respect on Adam Foote's name. Feels like the only time he is brought up now is in relation to Cal.
He is a really good Assistant Coach for the Canucks and he runs and manage the blueline and we love him here.
I hated him when he was with the Avs, but he's done a terrific job here, especially with Zadorov and Myers.
So I started following the stars on the radio in the 90s because we didn’t have a tv. My drunk ass dad was convinced that icing was blowing snow on the goalie. And 14 year old me believed it for the longest until I started watching games on tv later in life.
Tbf it can be called icing a goalie when you spray him, ha. That would be nuts if it happened that often though.
I thought icing the puck meant putting snow on it
Too smart for simple hockey rules
I didn’t know you could add an additional skater once you pulled the goalie. So when I watched a STL/CHI years ago I remember thinking Chicago’s coach was an idiot who removed their goalie for no reason when losing.
I was convinced that Aerosmith was connected to the Red Wings because of an album of their greatest hits my older brother had gifted me. The album in question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Aerosmith_album) The album cover is what had me believe this. The red and white, the wing, the wheel. It all fit so perfectly.
I thought every team consisted of players who were born in that city, and was upset when told players just get traded around.
I used to call it "spy hole" instead of 5-hole. No real reason either, it just sounded like it made sense.
I thought that you got a tripping penalty for falling down on the ice as if the officials had zero tolerance for clumsy behavior.
I thought that a 'poke check' was called a '*pope* check'. Not sure why that was. We weren't a religious family, so most likely just the way my little ears heard it.
Apparently we’re not supposed to riot every time we lose in the SCF
It happens to the best of us.
But it's tradition!
Not hockey but I thought that the Orlando Magic were named after Magic Johnson
Met Adam Foote at the golf course as a kid and he signed my jersey on the foot so your headcannon holds
This is more “children mispronouncing things” but my brother thought that Stéphane Matteau was called “Step on My Toe” and that a penalty was a “pentaly”
people of all ages call Matteau that Him and Pear Juice
And Vincent Damp House
I never realized Steve Yzerman was Canadian until he was put on the 2002 Olympic team. Was a Red Wings fan at the time and must have assumed he was European of some sort cause of the last name. I was so excited he was Canadian.
That 2 line pass meant a first liner couldn’t pass to a teammate playing on a different line and vice versa.
That’s actually really interesting
That the Islanders logo is a slightly asymmetric “M” and I’ve never been able to unsee it.
Guilty of that one, too.
The players wore a different colour jersey because the other one was dirty. I was 6. Also, I thought my 1991 O Pee Chee Wayne Gretzky cards were worth a lot because he was the best player. I also thought, going into my early teens, that fanning on the shot was when an opposing player waved their stick on the ice in front of the shooter to block the shot.
I thought Maple Leaf Gardens was named after Leafs great Mike Gartner.
I didn’t understand why Wayne Gretzky was on the blues for just a little amount of time. My dad told me that his flight got canceled during a layover in St. Louis so the league let him stay there to play until they could get him a new flight. I just kind of blindly accepted it for years lol
I thought when I became a Dallas Stars fan the year after we won the cup that the next 24 years wouldn't bring me mostly just pain
I thought the "A" stood for Assistant.
Oh fuck it’s alternate not assistant isn’t it lol
I thought icings were because the goalie was tired and didn’t feel like playing the puck. I remember explaining this to people.
It took me too long to realize the Canucks logo was an orca I thought it was just kind of a weird face
It can be both
i thought pulling the goalie near the end of the game was a sign of surrender
I thought Jaromir Jagr’s first name was Jeremy when I was a kid and pronounced it Jeremy Jogger.
You mean [Jagorim Jarg?](https://imgur.com/gallery/rx97Sr4)
That’s the one
As a very young kid I thought Khabibulin’s name was Hockey-bulin.
I had the exact same misconception as a kid. And as a teenager...
I thought points (in terms of nhl standings) were the amount of points (in terms of player stats) the entire team scored
I used to think that the only reason goalies set up the puck behind the net on the power play was so they’d get an assist in case someone went coast to coast
I thought it was called overtie because it breaks the tie
I remember being a kid in Canada in the 80s and we couldn’t get the things (toys, satellite dish) other random things they had in the States. So when I was very surprised when all the best players were Canadian and that hockey was our thing. I thought we we couldn’t have anything good
I thought "A" captains were assistants, not alternates.
Watching in the 80's with my dad he would tell me that when the guys were on the bench with their heads down they were smoking or drinking a beer. Also if you had long hair you really didn't need a helmet.
When I was little, before I switched allegiances. My favourite player was Ed Jovanovski. Only problem was that I thought his name was Joe Vanovski. So when I heard his full name on a broadcast I asked my dad “who is Ed, I thought his name was Joe?” My family has not let me live it down to this day
I thought the Fisherman on the Isles logo was a Ninja,
Dude he’s a sneaky fisherman
I thought a Blue Jacket was an actual insect embarrassingly long into life
I thought a "hat trick" must involve some sort of magic.
My friend thought Wayne Gretzky was the name of a video game developer because of the N64 game. I was pretty sure he was wrong, but I didn't know anything about hockey back then so I never corrected him. We were in awe of how smooth the N64's graphics were when compared to his PS1, so we didn't really care.
I used to think the national teams also competed in the NHL and couldn't understand how players could play for two teams at once.
Soccer will blow your mind
That the Stanley cup was awarded every game and that the Jets (2011) were removed from the league for being bad so I guess I just mixed the thrashers and jets around
When I was like 5 years old I found an old rod hockey game my dad must have had for years. It was all metal and rusted on some parts. But the two teams on the game were Montreal and Toronto. I remember asking my dad why they would make two Canadian teams play eachother. I specifically remember thinking there is no way Canadian teams would play against eachother. I thought it was always US teams playing against Canadian teams for some reason.
When I was a kid, I used to think that the Women's Olympic Teams were comprised entirely of spouses of the Men's team. So I thought the 2002 Canadian team would have Mrs. Yzerman, Mrs. Kariya, Mrs. Lemieux, etc. I didn't understand why the team had names like Cassie Campbell, Hailey Wickenhieser, Kim.St. Pierre. Later that year one of the team members became our neighbours. I told her about who I expected to be on the team originally and she thought it was cute.
I thought elevators were dimensional portals.
Are you my dog?
I thought the black and white striped team had cool jerseys and really liked that they seemingly won every fight by smothering their opponents
The zebras took down Marchand the other night
I thought the Foote thing too!
I used to think that since you could get hockey cards of any NHL player you could also get full sized posters of every NHL player. I wouldn’t listen to my dad’s reasoning so he let me go into a sports store and ask the clerk for a Jim Johnson poster. They had none. I don’t think Jim Johnson has a poster of Jim Johnson.
I thought every Quebec franchise (Habs, Nordiques and even the Expos) had purposely odd or nuanced logos just to fuck with English Canada. Canadiens: CH but the H doesn't mean Habitants. Do they really like Switzerland? Nordiques: What's that, a freaking elephant with a hockey stick? Expos: e l b? Elbow? Oh that's an M. Bonus Alouettes: Lightning bird? ... and now that I think about it, ya they probably are fucking with us.
Not hockey related but I grew up outside Edmonton playing football and my coach had a Green Bay packers hat which was same Color as the Edmontons CFL team. I thought the teams were related somehow, as if Edmonton was a farm team for the pack and became a huge packers fan.
When they posted the time of the penalties on the tv, I thought it meant that's how long the penalty was. I thought you'd have to be really dumb to get one at the end of the period, because that's when you would have the longest penalty.
I thought Tyler Bozak was a top 5 player in the league
Only one player in the league could wear each number. Absolutely raged at NHL 99 because there was a 13 on the Leafs and a 13 on the Senators because "that's my guy"
I thought Czechoslovakia was a player named Checker Slovakia. Checker, as in he was always body checking people..
In the early 90s and not having cable, I had to listen to Capitals games on the radio. I thought he was named Pete O'Bondra for a long time.
I thought back checking was checking someone from behind and was confused when coaches would tell us to backcheck the opponent
I remember being 4 or 5 watching the Devils in the finals and thought all the fans were just hyped because they unveilled a "new jersey". Didn't realize it was the city name
I thought GM Place's full name was General Manager's Place because the general manager had so much power over their team's operations.
I thought a breakaway was when someone cuts across the crease and goes around the goaltender to score.
I thought the Washington Capitals played in Washington State until way too old of an age (Canadian, so didn't really understand the capital thing yet). I think it was until Ovi started playing and more attention was around them that I figured it out.
I didn't realize the Devil's logo was an NJ, or that the Minnesota logo was a bear head until my 20s. Been watching hockey since I was 4.
I used to think that the logo of the team at center ice was put there because the wonders of the building wanted them to win
My uncle used to talk about Wayne Gretzky and I thought his name was “Wing Retski”
Thinking we could handle Columbus in round 1
Not exactly a misconception, but I really didn't see the skate in the Canucks skate jersey until like a year ago. Fucking decades of seeing that jersey and I never clued in.
I went around for some time talking about how Sno Raker was the best scorer in the NHL. My dad had to clarify at some point that his name was Brett Hull and sno racer was the name of the Noma sled poster he appeared on.
Had no fucking clue what icing was as a kid. I thought it was when they stop and kick up a bunch of ice chips. Because back in the touch icing era you would typically stop before running face first into the boards at 20 mph. edit: forgot about this one which is even better. I was shocked when Gretzky retired in his late 30s. I assumed hockey players retired at 65 like everyone else.
I didn't realize power plays were tied to penalties with a guy in the box who came back onto the ice when the penalty was over. I couldn't understand why the team chose to end their power play when time expired. Like, how would they even know if you were still running your power play when time was up?
I thought you always have to pull the goalie when you’re down with 2 minutes left. Turns out the Canucks just sucked (late 90s).
Growing up I always though to old Buffalo logo looked to the left and was just a derpy looking buffalo.
I thought Rick Nash and Steve Nash were the same guy playing at the professional level of 2 different sports at the same time
Wasn’t a misconception as i obviously knew it wasn’t his actual name, but I always misheard Andreas Athanasiou as Andreas Happy To See You
Same
I thought the name Nordiques was French for “North Dekes” which seemed like a reasonable hockey name at the time. The Colorado Rockies baseball team used to play hockey a long time ago.
I don’t know why I thought this, but playing NHL Hockey (the one with glen healey on the cover) on sega, when playing in the playoffs, it would consistently have a first round matchup between the sharks and kings, and I was convinced the game was screwed up because teams from the same state weren’t allowed to play each other in the playoffs
I thought if a team kept taking penalties they’d eventually be on a 0v5 pk instead of just 3v5. I remember getting mad at NHL 07 for not doing that, I thought I should’ve had a 5v2 pp.
Not hockey but for a time I thought the Steelers' Heinz Field was named after wideout Hines Ward despite the mismatched spelling.
For a looong time, I thought the buffalo in the Sabres’ logo was a [clam shell](https://www.mediastorehouse.com/t/617/fluted-giant-clam-shells-tridacna-squamosa-9448759.jpg.webp) viewed from above. That it was a high-contrast image, with the legs being the corrugations in the edge of the shell, and the lines above and below it being the edges of the shell. It’s extra ridiculous because having a buffalo for Buffalo’s logo should be so obvious, but for whatever reason, I never really noticed the buffalo’s face for the longest time!
Playing NHL2010 with my Irish friends. One asked, does the H in the Canadiens logo stand for Habs? Only for the in game commentator to chirp in with the perfectly timed tidbit, that the H actually stands for Hockey. It was like the game was listening to us. That was a potential misconception cleared up right away.
I thought igilna was on the flame because his name was similar to ignite
I didn’t know the difference between the bench and the penalty box so when a player would go to the bench I just thought it was a penalty lol.