# 3 hockey questions...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-hockey-questions/8307>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 27, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-hockey-questions/8307 "2000-02-27T05:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-hockey-questions/8307/21 "2000-02-29T00:21:00Z")

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If you were a Brotha… would you want to get out on a big patch of ice with a bunch of pissed off white boys with blades on their feet and sticks in their hands?

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**Author:** ![sxe\_dopefiend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@sxe\_dopefiend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sxe_dopefiend)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-hockey-questions/8307/22 "2000-03-07T03:55:00Z")

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there are currently 7 blacks in hockey and one korean.I know because i went through all the photos from NHL Breakaway 99 because well i have no life. Brashear was the man McSorley hit with the stick.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Sheepshead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Mr.Sheepshead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Sheepshead)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-hockey-questions/8307/23 "2000-03-08T19:56:00Z")

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Off the top of our heads, here’s some black players…

Kevin Weekes (NYI)  
Grant Fuhr (Calgary)  
Mike Grier (Edmonton)  
Fred Brathwaite (Calgary)  
Manny Malhotra (NYR)  
Ruman Ndur (Thrashers)  
Donald Brashear (Canucks)  
Jerome Iginla (Calgary)  
Anson Carter (Boston)  
Georges Laraque (Edmonton)

Well that’s ten. Not bad. My bro thinks there’s one more black person on Montreal too.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-hockey-questions/8307/24 "2000-03-08T20:14:00Z")

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Oh, my God, stop it with the “octopi” business.

There is no such word.

I know it sounds like there should be. But octopus does not form its plural that way, because ‘pus’ is not a Latin singular nominative ending. It derives from the Greek for _foot_. It therefore forms its plural the Greek way. Strictly speaking, then, one might refer to **octopoda**. As it happens, that usage is confined to describing multiple _species_ of the creature. If one wishes to speak of multiple creatures, one points and shouts, “Hey, Dad, look at all the octopuses!”

- Rick

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