Uh oh, now there are two ‘Hartsys’ in the Predators’ dressing room
If you call out the nickname “Hartsy!” in the Nashville Predators’ dressing room moving forward, you’re going to cause some confusion.
Just before the NHL trade deadline at 3 p.m. ET on Monday, the Nashville Predators acquired right wing Ryan Hartman in a trade with the division-rival Chicago Blackhawks.
Hartman brings eight goals and 17 assists through the first 57 games with him to Nashville, and the 23-year-old bottom-six forward is a piece around which the Preds can build their future.
But while the move is undoubtedly good for the Predators on the ice, it is already proving to cause some confusion off it.
As the Predators players who have grown used to calling left wing Scott Hartnell by his nickname of “Hartsy” quickly learned on Tuesday, there’s a new “Hartzy” in town, as The Tennessean‘s Adam Vingan shared:
Sure, Hartman’s nickname is spelled with a ‘z’ instead of an ‘s,’ but that doesn’t really help when you say it out loud, now does it?
The whole situation, one of the best to come out of Monday’s NHL trade moves, was basically a personification of the Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man meme:
To make this story even more delightful, Hartnell and Hartman are both wingers. Hartman is set to make his debut for the Predators on Tuesday against the Winnipeg Jets, most likely joining Colton Sissons and Austin Watson on the fourth line.
But while Hartnell and Hartman currently slot in on the Predators’ third and fourth lines, respectively, it’s more than likely at some point they’ll end up playing together on the same line.
And then we’ll get to call it the Hartsy Squared Line.
Double Harts Line?
Hartsy Hartzy Line?
We could have fun with this.
But in all reality, Hartnell and Hartman might have to do something to figure this nickname thing out moving forward.