Fansided

Each NHL team’s most memorable hockey name

By C.L. Kohuss

EDMONTON, AB - MAY, 1984: Wayne Gretzky #99 of the Edmonton Oilers throws his hands in the air after the Oiler score against the New York Islanders in the 1984 NHL Stanley Cup Finals at the Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Oilers defeated the Islanders 4 games to 1 to win the Stanley Cup. (Photo by Focus On Sport/Getty Images)
EDMONTON, AB - MAY, 1984: Wayne Gretzky #99 of the Edmonton Oilers throws his hands in the air after the Oiler score against the New York Islanders in the 1984 NHL Stanley Cup Finals at the Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Oilers defeated the Islanders 4 games to 1 to win the Stanley Cup. (Photo by Focus On Sport/Getty Images) /
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NEWARK, NJ – MARCH 30: Shawn Thornton #22 of the Boston Bruins is knocked over the boards by Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond #22 of the New Jersey Devils during the game at the Prudential Center on March 30, 2010 in Newark, New Jersey. The Bruins defeated the Devils in overtime 1-0. (Photo by Andy Marlin/NHLI via Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ – MARCH 30: Shawn Thornton #22 of the Boston Bruins is knocked over the boards by Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond #22 of the New Jersey Devils during the game at the Prudential Center on March 30, 2010 in Newark, New Jersey. The Bruins defeated the Devils in overtime 1-0. (Photo by Andy Marlin/NHLI via Getty Images) /

New Jersey Devils: Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond

At this point we’re beginning to see a pattern slowly unraveling before our eyes, and that is this: The dudes with the sick signatures are really angry people who love to smash knuckles on bone.

We promise it wasn’t planned this way. We do admit though that when we passed his name previously for the Calgary Flames, we had an itch to come back to it. But yes, totally random. It just so happens that the guy who sounds like a Mission: Impossible villain loves throwing fists. That and we couldn’t find any other highlights of his play.

Seriously, it’s a smorgasbord of punch fests out there.

On the one hand it isn’t really surprising. Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (man that’s an awesome name) only played in 41 games, amassing three points with no goals along the way. So yeah the highlights are few and absolutely zero. It’s typically the case when your biggest asset is fighting. You also don’t last very long in today’s game. If he had been in the NHL 15 to 20 years ago? Sure.

At the other end, it’s just too bad that he wasn’t an absurdly gifted hockey player. The name should have been enough to grant him those powers. That’s a classic NHL handle if ever we’ve heard one.

We can’t feel too sad for Letourneau-Leblond though. He did have basically a lifetime of play in the AHL, QMJHL, UHL, ECHL and probably every other league you could throw out there.

Honorable mentions: Tom Chorske, Alan Hepple, Jean-Francois Damphousse, Vlastimil Kroupa, Merlin Malinowksi and John Madden (you know why)

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