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Monet näitä sivuja lukevat kiekkoharrastajat näkevät englanninkielisillä saiteilla usein jääkiekkoslangia ja sanontoja, joitten merkitys ei ehkä ole täysin selvää. Niinpä tässä pieni kokoelma auttavia käännöksiä..

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Kokoelma saattaa olla joillekin lukijoille jo tuttu, koska
se on tänä talvena liikkunut jääkiekkopiireissä e-mailina läpi webavaruuden.

Mitä valmentajat todella tarkoittavat käyttäessään puheissaan tiettyjä,
monista englanninkielisistä selostuksista tuttuja sanontoja?

Ohessa siis pieni selvitys. Joku saattaa vielä yltyä tekemään näistä oivia suomennoksiakin ja alkaa lähetellä niitä ympäriinsä -
samat jutut ja samat merkityksethän ovat periaatteessa
käytössä koko jääkiekkomaailmassa.

What the Coach Really Means

Code: He’s a role player.

Translation: We think he can play a role, we just haven’t
figured out what that role is.

Code: He’s a "character" guy.

Translation: He makes us laugh, tells jokes and does impressions.

Code: He’s good in the room.

Translation: We should leave him in the room because he’s
useless on the ice.

Code: He brings intangibles.

Translation: We’re not sure what he brings to the team.

Code: He’s a competitor.

Translation: He competes every night, he just doesn’t win very
often.

Code: He’s gritty.

Translation: He needs a bath!

Code: He’s hard-nosed.

Translation: He’s dumb enough to lead with his face.

Code: He’s good in the corners.

Translation: He belongs in the corner - with a dunce cap on.

Code: He gives us physical presence.

Translation: He takes up space.

Code: He’s a technically sound goalie.

Translation: His reflexes suck.

Code: He’s a reflex goalie.

Translation: He hasn’t got a clue how to play the angles.

Code: He’s a power-play specialist.

Translation: I like having an extra man out there to cover up
for his screw-ups.

Code: He’s a stay-at-home defenceman.

Translation: He can’t skate and carry the puck at the same time.

Code: He’s an offensive defenceman.

Translation: he can’t play defence.

Code: He’s an all-round player.

Translation: He doesn’t do anything particularly well.

Code: He’s feisty.

Translation: He chirps at opposition and takes dumb penalties
at crucial times.

Code: He’s got experience.

Translation: He’s lost with better teams.

Code: He has tremendous upside.

Translation: He can’t get any worse.

Code: He’s a "project".

Translation: This guy was abandoned in the jungle as a small
boy and taught to play hockey by the family of gorillas who adopted
him. And, I’m supposed to coach this?

Code: He’s a grinder.

Translation: It’s 50-50 he’ll miss an empty net from three feet.

Code: He’s got good work ethic.

Translation: He works hard, but accomplishes little.

Code: He’s a playmaker.

Translation: He had better pass because he shoots like my
grandmother.

Code: We’ve got good chemistry.

Translation: We may be lousy but we get along.

Code: We’re rebuilding.

Translation: We stink this year and we probably will the year
after that too.

Code: We’re shaking up the lines to add offence.

Translation: I’m pulling names out of a hat and hoping it works.

Code: We’re letting him see the game from above so he can learn.

Translation: He peed me off so much the last game, I want him
as far away from me as possible.

Code: We only had a few bright spots tonight.

Translation: I watched my career go down the drain.

Code: Things are turning around for us now.

Translation: We don’t suck as much as before, and I can keep
my dinner down watching these losers.

Code: He’s our star.

Translation: He can actually play hockey.

Code: We don’t want to rush him.

Translation: He sucks.

Code: We played undisciplined hockey.

Translation: The ref sucked.

Code: We were not as good as we should be.

Translation: How can these high school drop-outs get paid
millions of dollars for that stuff they spewed on the ice tonight.

Jounin NHL-raportit Sport FM-radiossa joka torstai.

Janne Niinimaan ja Tommy Salon haastattelut suomeksi
ja ruotsiksi Edmonton Oilersin websaitilla www.edmontonoilers.com

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