Rosencrantz and Hutchenstern ain't dead

I've really enjoyed using nicknames for my Carolina Hurricanes this season. Some players have built-in nicknames, or they have names that lend themselves to nicknames really easily. Some just don't have nicknames. Tonight, I and my friends were trying to come up with a nickname for Chad LaRose. Before I get into that, I'll go down the Hurricanes roster and give the nickname(s) that I use. Bear in mind that some of the nicknames aren't widely used. Some of them, in fact are only used by myself and Jenn and Andy (of Jenn and Andy fame).

Numerically by position:

FORWARDS:

• # 8 Matt Cullen -- "Matty", "Cully", "Alfalfa"
• #11 Justin Williams -- "Viva", or the more proper "Viva La France"
• #12 Eric Staal -- "Staalsy"
• #13 Ray Whitney -- "The Wizard", "Tiny Tim"
• #14 -- Kevyn Adams -- "Kev", "K-Ad"
• #16 Andrew Ladd (currently on IR) -- no nickname
• #17 Rod Brind'Amour -- "Roddy", "Brindy", "Hot Rod"
• #19 Radim Vrbata¹ -- "Verby", "Czech Connection, party of one"
• #26 Erik Cole --"Colesy"
• #27 Craig Adams -- "CrAdams", "Craiggers", "Craigasaurus Rex"
• #36 Jesse Boulerice -- "Bull"
• #44 Niklas Nordgren -- "Nicky"
• #59 Chad LaRose -- ???
• #61 Cory Stillman -- no nickname
• #63 Josef Vasicek (currently on IR) -- "Czech Condor", "Big Joe", "Yo", "Joe-Va", "Yo-Va"

DEFENSEMEN:

• # 2 Glen Wesley -- no nickname
• # 4 Aaron Ward -- "A-Ward"
• # 5 Frantisek Kaberle -- "Frank", "Franky"
• # 6 Bret Hedican -- "Kristy", "Bredican", "Hediguchi", "Yamican", "Triple Sowcow", "You're a HediCAN, not a HediCAN'T"
• # 7 Niclas Wallin -- "Nicky", "Secret Weapon"
• #22 Mike Commodore -- "Mikey", "Mikey C", "Commie", "C-64"
• #24 Andrew Hutchinson "A-Hutch", "Hutch", "Hutchenstern"
• #70 Oleg Tverdovsky "Tevvy"

GOALTENDERS:

• # 29 Martin Gerber -- "Marturs Gerbe", "Gerbs", "Gerber Baby", "Marty"
• #30 Cam Ward -- "Wardo"

Please note, also that I do not endorse the use of "Wardo" as a nickname for Aaron Ward. He's "A-Ward". Nor will I endorse the use of "Lazy Russian" (as in "move your feet, you Lazy Russian") as a nickname for Tverdovsky. Some people will use both of these, but I use neither.

If you need to know the origin of some of these odd ones, let me know.

Now, on to Chad LaRose. He's been impressing me, so we thought that it was time for the youngster to have a nickname.

At first, it seemed like he should have a nickname of regal proportions. Something like "Chadwyck Von Rosenburg VII". That doesn't really flow off the tongue when you're cheering the boys on from the stands. The obvious ones like "Rosey" don't really work. Nor does anything like "Chadders" or "Chaddy". Somebody else suggested "Mighty Might", but we don't really wand to disparage him with a nickname, so we nixed that. I kinda like "Ad-Ro", but nobody else did. I even thought that something totally random like "Giraffe" or "Celery" might work, but couldn't come up with anything good. At the last minute Jenn came up with "Rosencrantz", which is terrific, but obviously means that there would have to be someone else to fit into the "Guildenstern" part of that
(movie) equation(book). We couldn't come up with a suitable Canes player to fill that name out, but Andy suggested "Staalenstern". Not bad.

It wasn't until I was almost home that I came up with one that I like much better. Andrew Hutchinson could be "Hutchenstern" to La Rose's "Rosencrantz".

What do you think of all this? Suggestions for other nicknames? Questions about some of the ones I named?

¹ I just found out that Verby was traded to Chicago for future considerations. I'm guessing we'll recall Mike "Ziggy" Zigomanis from Lowell to fill out the roster.