2022-23 Colorado Avalanche Player Nicknames

Coach Jared Bednar

• Coach Conehead (A reference to the Coneheads’ characters and their alias), Bender (Referring to the lovable deviant robot from the 90s cartoon Futurama), JB, Jables, Blendar

Erik Johnson

• EJ or Edge (the first one seems the easiest and the latter is one of his actual nicknames), The Condor - (because of the way he swoops through the rink, carrying the puck and generating an offensive chance from nothing)

Gabriel Landeskog

• Face - (A-team reference), Landy/Lando/Gabe/Babe

Nathan MacKinnon

• Mac/MacK (because hockey players aren’t very creative), Mack Daddy - (I don’t know how this one came along but sounds cool?), Nate, Nate Dogg/The Dogg

Mikko Rantanen

• Rants, Mikko Sauvé (Refers to 1990 song “Rico Sauvé” by Ecuadorian rapper Gerardo Mejia), The Moose (Because of how big and strong he is, somewhat like a moose but with more pizazz on ice than an actual moose)

Bowen Byram

• The Kid (2.0), Bo

Devon Toews

• Tazer

Cale Makar

• The Kid, All Hail Cale

Valeri Nichushkin

• Big Val, Nuke, Chu Chu

Logan O’ Connor

• LOC (it’s just a lot easier to say this acronym rather than his full name)

Jacob MacDonald

• Mac

J.T. Compher

• JT (again, obviously very creative), JTC, 1877-Goal-Now - from our very own Jackie, a solid nickname for a great guy), Comphs

Pavel Francouz

• Frankie

Samuel Girard

• Sammy G

Martin Kaut

• Marty

Evan Rodrigues

• E-Rod, Evan Almighty

Alexandar Georgiev

• Georgie, Alexandar the Great

Artturi Lehkonen

• Lehky, Lehks, Good stick Lehky!

Alex Newhook

• Newy, The Kid (3.0)

Andrew Cogliano

• Cogs

Kurtis MacDermid

• The Fighter, Enforcer

Ben Meyers

• I honestly don’t know of any

Andreas Englund

• Engs

Darren Helm

• Helmer

Jonas Johansson

• Jo-Jo

Brad Hunt

• Huntsy

Denis Malgin

• Malgy