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The Name Game

Shakespeare asked "what's in a name?". I'm pretty sure he wasn't thinking about which Canucks had the longest and shortest names. Then again, maybe he was trying to think of something that rhymed with Sheldon Kannegiesser.

Here are some Canucks that have set records just for having unique names.

Longest surname
12 letters    Kannegiesser, Sheldon    Wickenheiser, Doug
              Sharifijanov, Vadim

11 letters    Baumgartner, Nolan       Namestnikov, Yevgeny
              Charbonneau, Jose        Schliebener, Andy
              Fitzpatrick, Rory        Ververgaert, Dennis
              Hendrickson, Darby       Zetterstrom, Lars
Longest first name and last name combination
19 letters    Sheldon Kannegieser

18 letters    Yevgeny Namestnikov

17 letters    Jocelyn Guevremont       Dennis Ververgaert
              Vadim Sharifijanov       

16 letters    Nolan Baumgartner        Alexander Mogilny
              Darby Hendrickson        Lawrence Nycholat
              Zenith Komarniski        Herbert Vasiljevs
              Orland Kurtenbach        Doug Wickenheiser
              Jean-Marc Lanthier
Honourable mention to Jean-Jacques Daigneault (21 letters)
who goes by the name J.J. Daigneault (12 letters)

Shortest surname
 3 letters    Guy, Kevan      May, Brad       Sly, Darryl

 4 letters    Auld, Alex      Holt, Randy     Park, Richard
              Bawa, Robin     Irbe, Arturs    Peca, Mike
              Boyd, Randy     Kesa, Dan       Reid, Brandon
              Bure, Pavel     Kidd, Ian       Rota, Darcy
              Cook, Bob       King, Jason     Ryan, Preston
              Coxe, Craig     Krog, Jason     Salo, Sami
              Dirk, Robert    Kron, Robert    Smyl, Stan
              Doak, Gary      Lanz, Rick      Snow, Garth
              Dowd, Jim       Leeb, Brad      Vaic, Lubomir
              Dunn, Dave      Mair, Jim       Valk, Garry
              Dyck, Ed        Maki, Wayne     Ward, Dixon
              Hall, Murray    Moss, Tyler     Ward, Ron
              Hall, Taylor    Nill, Jim       York, Harry
Shortest first name and last name combination
 6 letters    Ed Dyck

 7 letters    Bob Cook        Ian Kidd        Jim Nill
              Jim Dowd        Jim Mair        Ron Ward
              Dan Kesa        Brad May
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