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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Players had much better nicknames back then. Nowadays, Tiny Thompson would just be Thompsie or something like that.
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I've been doing another of my dives into the very early history of the game. Two of the best nicknames belonged to A. E. ‘Dolly’ Swift and W. C. ‘Weldy’ Young, who played in the 1890s.
Dolly and Weldy were both heavy-duty goons (and very good all-round players), and they hated each other bitterly. They spent a substantial part of their careers trying to disassemble each other with their sticks. Weldy went on to become a mining entrepreneur in Northern Ontario, and Dolly became a general in World War I.
I'd like to see the modern-day player with the stones to let people call him Dolly.