One day I had the TV on and not really paying attention to what was going on.  I was probably doing something else like cleaning the kitchen.  A hockey game was showing.  I was not a hockey fan.

Then I heard the announcer say a hockey player’s name, sah-tahn.  Then I looked at the TV screen and saw a hockey player’s jersey with the name SATAN on the back.  He played for the Buffalo Sabres.

His name is Miroslav Šatan.  He is Slovakian.  I think his name is pronounced shah-tahn.

I don’t know what I did back then when I saw this.  It probably set my OCD off.

I thought I heard somebody say that he played for the New Jersey Devils.  Actually, he didn’t.  What if he did?  If that was the case, there could have been New Jersey Devils hockey jerseys with SATAN on the back.  That could have been a good OCD exposure just to wear it.

On an odd note, if you go to the SI website, his hockey info is that the URL http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/players/666/.

I don’t know why I am laughing at this.  Two years I might have been dreading this due to my OCD.

I don’t know if this is true or not but I guess Šatan early in his hockey career was ordering pizza and the pizza guy asked how to spell his name.  So Šatan said S-A-T-A-N.  This made the pizza guy upset and hung up.