Penguins Primer Wikia
Penguins Primer Wikia

Nicknames[]

The Core[]

All Current Players[]

  • Sidney Crosby  - Sid, Squid, Creature, Darryl, Sid the Kid, Bing
  • Matt Cullen - Cully, Cullsy, Dad
  • Brian Dumolin - Dumo
  • Patric Hornqvist - Horny
  • Phil Kessel - Phil the thrill, the legend
  • Tom Kuhnhackl - Junior (Because his nickname was also Kuni, and his # in the AHL was 14 like Chris Kunitz was #14 with the Penguins), Knuckles, Kuni
  • Kris Letang - Tanger
  • Olli Maatta -
  • Evgeni Malkin - Geno, Zhenya, bully, Russian bear
  • Matt Murray - Muzz, Murr
  • Jamie Oleksiak - Big Rig (referencing his size)
  • Riley Sheahan -
  • Justin Shutltz - Shultzy, Jeff[1]
  • Bryan Rust - Rusty

Former Players[]

  • Beau Bennett - Sunshine
  • Nick Bonino - Bones
  • Ian Cole - Colesy
  • Trevor Daley - Dales
  • Eric Fehr - Fehrsy
  • Marc-André Fluery - Flower
  • Maxime Talbot - Superstar, Mad Max
  • Sergei Gonchar - Gonch, Seryozha (Russian diminutive of Sergei)
  • Carl Hagelin - Hags, Haggy, Haggsy, Hairgelin[2]
  • Jussi Jokinen - Juice
  • Chris Kunitz - Kuni
  • Ben Lovejoy - Benny, the Reverend (Because of the Simpsons' character, Reverend Lovejoy)
  • Paul Martin - Paulie, P-Mart
  • James Neal - Nealer, Nealsy, Lazy, Jamie
  • Matt Niskanen - Nisky
  • Brooks Orpik - Brooksie
  • Derrick Pouliot - Pooh
  • Ryan Reaves - Reavo, Reaver
  • Conor Sheary - Shearsy
  • Jordan Staal - Jordy, Gronk (nicknamed by Colbie Armstrong in reference to a Marvel villain)
  • Brandon Sutter - Suttsy, Flat Stanley (Because he was so skinny)
  • Rob Scuderi - Scuds
  • Scott Wilson - Scotty, Willy
  • Jeff Zatkoff - Tishy, Zat, Mr. Game One
  1. People sometimes mistake Justin's name as Jeff. Naturally that means that the players also call him Jeff sometimes.
  2. https://twitter.com/penguins/status/788460372823007234