List of Ice Hockey Line Nicknames - Famous Non-NHL Lines With Nicknames

Famous Non-NHL Lines With Nicknames

• "The Army Line"—HC CSKA Moscow Soviet league (1970s)—Valeri Kharlamov (LW), Boris Mikhailov (RW), Vladimir Petrov (C)
• "The Black Aces"—Quebec Aces QSHL (1940s)—Herb Carnegie, Ossie Carnegie and Manny McIntyre. Hockey's only all-Black line.
• "The Carlson Brothers"—Johnstown Jets NAHL (1970s)—Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson, and Jack Carlson, all real-life brothers. While still active players, Jeff and Steve would join with David Hanson to portray the fictional "Hanson Brothers" in the 1977 movie Slap Shot (Jack, having been called up to the WHA, was unavailable at the time).
• "The Coneheads Line"—USA Hockey, 1980 Winter Olympics, "Miracle on Ice" team—Mark Pavelich, John Harrington, Buzz Schneider; after the famous Saturday Night Live sketch series Coneheads, because they played a strange or 'alien' style. All three players were from the Iron Range in Northeast Minnesota
• "The DDT Line"—Ice hockey at the 2003 World Championships, 2004 World Championships, & 2004 World Cup of Hockey (for Canada)—Kris Draper, Shane Doan, Joe Thornton; after the initials of the players' surnames
• "The KLM line"—Soviet national ice hockey team (1980s)—Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Sergei Makarov; after the initials of the players' surnames; also known as "The Green Line" because they wore green jerseys in practice.
• "Les Trois Denis"—Montreal Juniors (late 1970s) —Denis Cyr, Denis Tremblay, Denis Savard; A line that featured three players who all were named Denis, all were born on February 4, 1961, and all grew up in the same neighbourhood in Verdun, Quebec. Was dominant in the QMJHL for a couple of years.
• The Hanson Brothers—see "The Carlson Brothers" above.
• "The "Headache Line"—Vyacheslav Anisin, Alexander Bodunov and Yuri Lebedev. USSR 1972 Canada-USSR series
• "The Jönsson Gang"—Färjestad BK, Sweden (2000s)—Jorgen Jonsson, Peter Nordstrom, Pelle Prestberg and for a while instead of Prestberg, Hannes Hyvonen; Named after a series of films with the same name.
• "The Huey, Dewey, and Louie line"—Team Finland (1994–1995)—Ville Peltonen (LW), Saku Koivu (C) and Jere Lehtinen (RW; The lineup debuted in 1994 Winter Olympics and made an instant impact on Finnish National Team's play during the tournament. The lineup was later on used during 1995 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, where Finland won their first ever Gold Medals. The play of the lineup gained international attraction and later on, the trio would go on and have a career in NHL with Koivu for Montreal Canadiens, Lehtinen for Dallas Stars and finally; Peltonen, gaining his spot in the NHL after a lengthy struggle, playing for San Jose Sharks, Nashville Predators and Florida Panthers.
• "The Blue-line"—Team Czech (1996)- Martin Prochazka (Right Wing), Pavel Patera (Center) and Otakar Vejvoda (Left Wing); The lineup played at 1996 World hockey championship in Vien, where Czech republic boosted for its first gold medal after separation from Slovakia in 1993. Blue-line substantially helped the Czech representation in beating favorited teams such as team Canada in final, team Sweden or team Finland. Otakar Vejvoda was later voted as the best left winger at the tournament, while Pavel Patera was the second best player in scoring (with 8 points) and Martin Prochazka scored the winning goal at the final against Canada just few seconds before end of the game. In the season 1994–95 all three forwards were top three scorers in Czech Extra league, while Pavel Patera was first with 75 pts, Martin Prochazka settled second place with 58 pts and Otakar Vejvoda finished season at third place with 56 pts. After world hockey championship in 1996 trio moved together to AIK Stockholm, but soon after Martin Prochazka moved to NHL, whereas Otakar Vejvoda ended his hopeful career because of health problems in 1998. That was definitive end of the Blue-line, although Martin Prochazka and Pavel Patera played together again after few years of separation, and both of them were members of Czech winning team at the Winter Olympics 1998 in Nagano. So called blue-line was named after blue jerseys of their home club HC Poldi Kladno, where all three forwards were played at the first half of 1990s.
• "The Shark Line"—Team Canada (2010)—Joe Thornton (C), Dany Heatley (RW), and Patrick Marleau (LW), all of whom played for the San Jose Sharks of the NHL (Dany Heatley was traded to the Minnesota Wild in 2011). They are known sometimes as "The Olympic Line" among San Jose fans.
• "Price Club Line", Michigan Wolverines (2003–04) T.J. Hensick, Milan Gajic and Brandon Kaleniecki (because they score in bulk)
• "LAPD line", Los Angeles Kings (2001-2004) Adam Deadmarsh, Jason Allison, and Ziggy Palffy. LAPD is the LA police department, and Allison (a), Palffy (p), and Deadmarsh (d) doled out their share of hits and goals