So this is interesting...

[elocomotive]

We are very close to the point where Canadians do not make up the majority of the players in the NHL.


Graph of NHL Nationalities Over Time

 

[elocomotive]

OV baby!!!

Nice PP goal.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

Grapes just had a heart attack.

 

[dash]

Now do you think it's easy to just gradually take over every professional sport? Let me tell you something, man. Brothers have started figuring out this ice thing. Hope you enjoyed it!

 

[DevilishWon]

Grapes just had a heart attack.

Can feces throwing xenophobic apes have heart attacks...oh sorry I thought I was back in the espn swamp

 

[elocomotive]

OV baby!!!

Nice PP goal.

Lol. I guess I posted that in the wrong thread.

NEGGED!

 

[elocomotive]

I guess they need a new sticker to put on the NHL product box...

"Now with 30% more soft Euro-styling!"

 

[mattola]

 

[forty_three]

Now do you think it's easy to just gradually take over every professional sport? Let me tell you something, man. Brothers have started figuring out this ice thing. Hope you enjoyed it!

Where's that damn rep button?

Welcome to Ontario! Sportsman's Paradise!

 

[Eddie_Shack]

USA! USA! USA! USA!

 

[juliansteed]

Very ineresting but not all that surprising, at least not the current figures. I figured it was around 50%. What does surprise me is that the decline has been pretty steady since around the early 60s. I would have guessed it really took a dive around the late 80s/early 90s when Russians started coming over and after the NHL had expanded into a few more markets for about a generation.

It's also interesting that the US pretty much equals all other countries combined.

I wouldn't have guessed there were nearly as many Swedes as Americans in the NHL about 100 years ago.

 

[juliansteed]

Also as a Canadian and a hockey fan I think this is great!

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Also as a Canadian and a hockey fan I think this is great!

Interesting to see that in the VERY recent history that good ole Yanks are taking the jobs away from Hosers more than Eurotrash countries are.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Interesting to see that in the VERY recent history that good ole Yanks are taking the jobs away from Hosers more than Eurotrash countries are.

Actually due to expansion not a single Hoser has lost a job...

 

[juliansteed]

Actually due to expansion not a single Hoser has lost a job...

And it's not just "Yanks" (in the most traditional sense of the word) included among the American players anymore either, which is also awesome! We're seeing more and more players from states like California, Texas, Colorado etc. drafted each summer and/or on the World Junior team.

 

[IndyAndy]

Back in '08-'09 there was a young man (they're all under 20 in the USHL) from Kenya (or some central African country) playing for the Indiana Ice. He had been 'discovered' in Sweden, where he had been playing in a young men's league. Whether he was there because of some job that one of his parent's held or they moved there specifically so he could play hockey I never really knew.

 

[puckhead]

Back in '08-'09 there was a young man (they're all under 20 in the USHL) from Kenya (or some central African country) playing for the Indiana Ice. He had been 'discovered' in Sweden, where he had been playing in a young men's league. Whether he was there because of some job that one of his parent's held or they moved there specifically so he could play hockey I never really knew.

long time NHLer Robin Regher was born in Brazil, his brother Ritchie - Indonesia
Willi Plett was from Paraguay
Rod Langway was from Taiwan
Rick Chartraw, Venezuela
Olaf Kolzig, South Africa

they were pretty much all children of Canadian ex-pats though

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Actually due to expansion not a single Hoser has lost a job...

Good point!!

Can we contract so that Max Lapierre, Matt Cooke and Ben Eager are out of work?

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

long time NHLer Robin Regher was born in Brazil, his brother Ritchie - Indonesia
Willi Plett was from Paraguay
Rod Langway was from Taiwan
Rick Chartraw, Venezuela
Olaf Kolzig, South Africa

they were pretty much all children of Canadian ex-pats though

Craig Adams

Seria, Brunei

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Don't forget Taro Tsujimoto.