FanHouse Kellie Pickler

Here's how it works, puckheads: Gain a Hilary Duff, lose a Kellie Pickler from the ranks of hockey girlfriend hotties. The former American Idol contestant (she's the one standing to the right of a disturbingly muscular Carrot Top) was dating Nashville Predators winger Jordin Tootoo, but she indirectly told a Chicago radio station last week that the couple was done. OK! Magazine reports today that Pickler not only told a Michigan concert audience that she and Tootoo had split up, but also gave him an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty:

The 21-year-old singer confessed to the screaming crowd saying that her former boyfriend, Nashville Predator hockey player Jordin Tootoo, cheated on her. Joking to concertgoers, she said she hoped Jordin got his teeth knocked out during that night's game.

Please send well-wishes and support to Miss Pickler on her official MySpace page, where the Charlotte Observer reports all of Tootoo's photos have been removed.

Meanwhile...Jordin, dude: There are plenty of other former American Idol losers in the sea. Katharine McPhee. Diana DeGarmo. Personally, I've always been a Nikki McKibbin man myself.Sorry, No Photos
Previously on FanHouse:
Tootoo Loves Him Some Kellie Pickler T-Shirts

As J.P. previously reported here on NHL FanHouse, former "American Idol" loser Kellie Pickler is in the throws of passion with Nashville Predators winger Jordin Tootoo, a professional pain-in-the-ass who still finds time for beer and blondes. Pickler dished on her relationship in an interview with People Magazine:

The former American Idol contestant, 20, and the Nashville Predators right wing, 24, met after they bought condos in the same Nashville complex, where Tootoo spotted Pickler and asked for her phone number.

Pickler tells PEOPLE they were friends at first, but the relationship had turned romantic by spring. "We're from real different places, but they're both small towns so we're a lot alike too," she says (she's from Albemarle, N.C.; he grew up in Rankin Inlet, a small town in Nunavut in Canada's Northwest Territories).

Now, she says, "We let each other shine in our moments and are so proud of each other. I go to games and I'm the fan in the Predators jersey, screaming my head off. He comes to my concert with a Pickler t-shirt and he does the same."

What the hell is wrong with you, Tootoo? Everybody knows there's one cardinal rule for every self-respecting male on the planet: You never, ever wear the band's T-shirt to the band's concert. Don't be that guy, Jordin.

Obviously, Tootoo/Pickler is the latest example of the next generation of NHL stars slowly trying to break through to the casual American fan by bagging every hot famous blonde they can get their sticks on. Ted over on A Price Above Bip Roberts is unimpressed:

Jordin Tootoo is smacking some fine ass, and that's all well and good, but he plays for a professional hockey team located in Tennessee, which is just hard to get excited about.

While most everything hockey-related in Nashville seems to be going to hell in a hand basket these days, the one thing that apparently isn't is Predators forward/pest Jordin Tootoo's love life.

Tootoo, who cleverly wears the number 22 and is moderately famous for liking to get his party on, seems to be settling down a bit, and apparently is doing so with former American Idol finalist Kellie Pickler (pictured).

"We've been seeing each other since January, but we kept it under wraps," admits Pickler. "I am this country bumpkin and he's an Eskimo" (I believe "Inuit" is what she meant to say).

Anyway, Pickler -- who may or may not have had a boob job, according to the article -- is just as excited as can be. She notes that she is looking forward to visiting Tootoo's remote northern Canadian hometown later this summer so she can "build an igloo," but also presumably so she can get as far away from her father (who was just arrested for the second time this year) as possible:

The elder Pickler is being charged after getting caught stealing old cars and selling them to scrap yards. He was recently released from jail after a serving a three-year sentence for stabbing his neighbor.

Looks like Jordin may have to wait a while to ask his potential father-in-law for his daughter's hand in marriage.

Young love. Ain't it sweet?