I love hockey, but I’m from the American south, so I’ll occasionally try to say “Kyosti Karjalainen” or whatever and have it come out sounding like a garbage truck. It happens.

Here’s Jimmy Fallon handing out NHL award superlatives on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ and garbage trucking everybody. Some of the awards are funny — Raffi Torres winning “Most Likely To Remove His Eye And Show It To You” was particularly wonderful — but yeah, I think the joy of the segment is assuming Jimmy said “no, I’ll be fine” to the NBC hockey rep with phonetic flash cards and muddling his way through the names on the fly. I’m surprised Chris Neil didn’t end up as “Crass Nail.”

The clip is after the jump. Warning: yes, he does snicker at several of his own jokes, so be okay with that going in.

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One of the weirder things about the NHL is the William Jennings Trophy. At the end of each season, the trophy is awarded “the goalkeeper(s) having played a minimum of 25 games for the team with the fewest goals scored against it. Winners are selected based on regular-season play.” This used to be the criterion for awarding the Vezina Trophy, but that was back in 1927 when most teams only had one…I’m getting off track.

Anyway, the Boston Bruins had the lowest team GAA last season, which led to this humorous exchange between the team’s goalies, Tim Thomas and Manny Fernandez, at the NHL Awards show last night. I’m sure that’s a Canadian thing for hockey players to be thanking each other’s wives like that. But usually they take care of that sort of thing backstage, if you know what I mean. And I think you do. And you thought the Stanley Cup was passed around a lot…

|Thanks, Jaggerkings|