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AndreLacroix
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: NC
Joined: 06.01.2007

Oct 23 @ 9:40 AM ET
Is this the real Andre, his son, or are you just using his name?
- MBFlyerfan


So sorry - didn't think of that possible confusion at all when I chose the user name. Andre was my first "hockey idol" when I started watching hockey. A truly very, very nice guy! Still have a hand-written letter he sent to me back in 1970.
BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Oct 23 @ 10:02 AM ET
So sorry - didn't think of that possible confusion at all when I chose the user name. Andre was my first "hockey idol" when I started watching hockey. A truly very, very nice guy! Still have a hand-written letter he sent to me back in 1970.
- AndreLacroix


Wow, you may actually be older than me then.
Fountain-San
Boston Bruins
Location: Marchand is a rat fink dweeb.., ME
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 23 @ 10:19 AM ET
Paul's blog will return tomorrow. The debut of Brad Marsh's weekly blog will be upcoming this morning.
- bmeltzer

you mean Marshy?
AndreLacroix
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: NC
Joined: 06.01.2007

Oct 23 @ 11:01 AM ET
Wow, you may actually be older than me then.

- BiggE

Yeah, I was going to say in my last message that this means I'm an "old geezer". :-)

Section O, Row 12, Seat 6 in the ol' Spectrum for 25 years before moving away from the area. Will always bleed orange and black though.
Bill Meltzer
Editor
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Joined: 07.13.2006

Oct 23 @ 11:11 AM ET
you mean Marshy?
- Fountain-San


Marsh and Stewart are among those who don't mind strangers calling them by the nicknames as an alternative to their given names.

My preferred form is to use first names unless the other person uses the nickname freely. Always best to start with something more formal. Even then, it all depends on the person and their preferences.

Brad Marsh named his former Ottawa restaurant "Marshy's" and gladly answers to it if someone calls him by the nickname. Brian Propp "signs" his emails as Propper even if you call him Brian in the salutation on your end of the correspondence. So I do now use Propper for Propp, for example. Bob Kelly in any hockey-related context gladly still answers to Hound and uses it himself.

On the other hand, the couple of times that I've contacted former Flyers and Rangers goalie Bob Froese, who is now an ordained minister, I would only ever call him Rev. Froese or Bob out of respect. I would never feel comfortable calling him"Frosty" even if he said he didn't mind it.
MBFlyerfan
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Be nice from now on, NJ
Joined: 03.17.2006

Oct 23 @ 11:33 AM ET
So sorry - didn't think of that possible confusion at all when I chose the user name. Andre was my first "hockey idol" when I started watching hockey. A truly very, very nice guy! Still have a hand-written letter he sent to me back in 1970.
- AndreLacroix


Yes he really is a nice guy. As is his whole family!
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