If you look at the story about the most recent Winnipeg Jets' game on the Winnipeg Free Press, you'll see this.
But if you looked at the website right after the game ended, you would have seen this.
First word, second paragraph. They misspelled Zach! Got it right in the caption, but not the article.
I know. An honest mistake. One that was corrected in the next version of the article. The correct version was written by Ed Tait. The first was from Tim Campbell. Don't know what happened there, but the point is that the Winnipeg Free Press corrected the error.
But I had to share it. The bigger deal is that Jets won despite vallant efforts by both the Wild and the Refs. But that is more of a topic for Hockey Cop.
Here, I should be nit-picky about something else. Like 'H' vs 'K'.
Come on Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press! That error never should have happened. Because it soon spread to the Montreal Gazette, making you look a bit foolish.
I shouldn't be giving you a hard time Campbell. There are other examples of you knowning how to spell Zach.
I'm sure this thing happens all the time. But a hockey error? In Winnipeg? Say it ain't so! I know that not everyone here in Atlanta was the biggest fan, but we did have some really dedicated ones that fought to keep the Thrashers here.
And they never would have made that error...
Okay, so they made that error.
Never mind Campbell. I'll completely let it slide. Don't come down here with all of your Canadian writer friends and put the hurt on me.
Like I said, it's just a personal pet-peeve to misspell Zach.
If you look at it, there are some much more glaring errors in hockey spelling. Some things get corrected. Some things don't.
First, we have a look at Brad Marchand of the "Stanley Cup Champian" Boston Bruins.
That tattoo has been corrected because it originally was spelled "Champians". A seperate tattoo artist came in and fixed it. How did the tattoo get misspelled in the first place? Well, it appears that the team had a tattoo session in the lockerroom of TD Garden.
What? Do they have a perminate tattoo parlor in the Boston arena? I don't think so. Don't forget, the deciding Game 7 was in Vancouver which means that this tattoo artist was probably brought in just for this event to 'tat' some guys up upon their return. It's not like they did this in the heat of the moment seconds after hoisting the Cup. There was some thought put into this. And he didn't spell Champion right. Too many Dunkin' Donuts to think straight I guess.
Okay, so the article is quickly correctable. The tattoo was relatively quick to correct. Let's look at another something that was corrected: video. Video from the Lightning trying to get you to vote Tampa players to the All Star Game.
Link to video.
So, what was the error?
They were originally trying to send the players to Ottowa.
Most of these things were corrected pretty quickly. Not all errors are found that fast. One player had his own name misspelled on his jersey.
For three games.
It took until a third game wearing that jersey until someone finally told Rob Niedermayer that his name was misspelled.
Well, at least it has never happened to any of hockey's best players in history. Like, oh I don't know, a man who's name synonymous with hockey playing one of the marquee teams in the League.
Yep. That's a Wayne Gretzky jersey blunder. Oops.
But the icing on the cake is the Stanley Cup. You know, the Stanley Cup? The symbol of hockey greatness? That silver throphy where winning teams and players are inscribed on it every year and it travels with a bodyguard?
Yeah. That Stanley Cup.
It has an error (who are the Ilanders?).
Or two (it's Vertseeg, not Versteeg at the end there).
And they may have XXX-ed out a name here or there.
Actually, there are a lot of errors on hockey's holy grail.
Adam Deadmarsh was spelled Deadmarch -- but later was changed; the only misspelled name to be corrected.
Some other misspells on the Cup that never have been corrected: Jacques Plante's name has been misspelled five times, (including "Jocko," "Jack" and "Plant"); Bob Gainey was spelled "Gainy" when he was a player for Montreal in the 70s; Ted Kennedy was spelled "Kennedyy" in the 40s; the Toronto Maple Leafs was spelled "Leaes" in 1962/63; the Boston Bruins was spelled "Bqstqn" in 1972.
And those xxx's? "Basil Pocklington," father of former Edmonton Oilers owner, Peter who put his dad's name on the Stanley Cup in 1983/84. Yeah, the NHL took him off.
So, Tim Campbell, I'll let it slide this one time. You may have our hockey team, but you know something we have that you don't?
Weather that doesn't call for a heavy coat in December. Atlanta - 1, Winnipeg - 0. That's Winnipeg with two N's.
--To tell the truth, I should be the last person talking about grammatical or spelling errors. Have you ever read this ting.
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