Nationality stats in NHL?

[Jazz]

Thanks Brimsek39!

G.

[hungarianfan]

There were a hungarian player in the NHL in the 2002/03 season.
The goalkeeper Levente Szuper was sitting on the bench of Calgary Flames by 3 times. He didn't play anyway.

[Brimsek39]

Who does Szuper play for now?

[diabolik]

Brimsek39 said:

Who does Szuper play for now?

he's under contract with Worcester , and he has played for the Peoria Rivermen , where he was the Sun National Bank ECHL Saver of the Month for March with 11-1-0 with three shutouts, a goals against average of 1.75 and a save percentage of .935 in 12 games

but i am not a specialist of the leagues under the NHL , i see many teams like Saint John or Ottawa 67's where Szuper play

[Jazz]

"Szuperman" as he is called, signed with St. Louis before the 03/04 season after serving as the main-guy in Calgary's farm team (St. John - AHL) for a couple of seasons. As mentioned above, he was called up a couple of times to Calgary but saw no game action - except in the pre-season.

I questioned the move initially, as St. Louis had more depth in goal than Calgary did at the time (this was before Kiprusoff). I wondered what the reason was for him not re-signing in Calgary.

One interesting story about him was that he was on leave in Hungary for a few days after his grandma died during the 02/03 season. He has just arrived for about a day or so when he got called up to Calgary (after an injury to Turek I believe). So he had to fly from St. John N.B. to Hungary to Calgary in a matter of 3 or 4 days!

[Graham]

diabolik said:

and Owen Nolan was born at Belfast, Ireland

Belfast is in Northern Ireland, not Ireland. Therefore, Nolan is not Irish by birth, but British. But, then again, he confuses the whole thing further by chosing to represent Canada...

I guess the problem with this list, though, is that it is based on where the players were born, not their nationality. I'd be more interested in seeing a list based on what national team the players are allowed to compete for. For example, neither the two English players (Dafoe and Thomas) nor the Northern Irish player (Nolan) in this list are allowed to play for "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (to use our official title) as they all have dual citizenship and haven't played the two year minimum in our country. All 3 players have represented Canada at hockey (although Dafoe hasn't done it at senior level), so they are more Canadian in the eyes of international hockey than British.

Graham.

[aj]

To be fair, though, Graham, Owen Nolan did move to Canada when he was seven months old. He was also into football (as in soccer) until his mom bought him a pair of secondhand skates at the age of 9.

[Graham]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not bitter at Nolan deciding he's Canadian rather than British. To be honest, as anyone who has heard me moan constantly about the British national team, I take the opposite approach that I wish more players would take his approach and stop playing for European teams under a flag of convenience.

As an example, one of the Canadians currently playing for GB was reported in the press as saying "I was so proud when we won the Olympics." Now, I'm guessing he wasn't talking about 1936, so in my opinion he should no longer be allowed to represent Great Britain because, by his own admission, he doesn't see that as his country.

Graham.

[NyQuil]

Of course, in return for Owen Nolan, we decided to give you Owen Hargreaves, the Bayern Munich midfielder and English national.

[TampaLightning]

"Born"-eo, but raised in a better place for hockey. That doesn't really count for Brunei, IMO. He would need to have been born and raised there, for it to qualify.

[aj]

Same goes for Robyn Regehr. The only reason he was born in Brazil was that his parents were missionaries, and happened to be there at the time.

I'm guessing he wasn't talking about 1936

;D

I have to agree with you. As a Canuck transplanted to Britain, even if I played my 2 years (or whatever it takes) here to qualify to play for Britain, I still wouldn't consider it "my country." Some people might, and that's great, but I think they're a minority.

[Graham]

Hargreaves is a good example of the other side of the coin. In hockey, we have Canadians that aren't good enough for Team Canada but still want an international career. In football, they (hey, I'm Scottish, I take no responsibility for the English team ) have a Canadian who is too good for Canada and is using England as a route to have a more successful international career than he would playing for Canada.

I have no problem with anyone who goes to live and work in another country. Truth be told, I'm currently considering it myslef. I just think it defeats the purpose of international sport when you start playing with qualification definitions. Take it to the extreme, and I think World Championships will disappear as we know them and be replaced by club championships.

Graham.

[Lukasz]

Graham said:

(hey, I'm Scottish, I take no responsibility for the English team )

You can trust Graham I remember when Poland played one of the last but decided match in qualification to ECH with England, situation was that that team which win match will play in next this time really last match of qualification. Scottish federation send to our federation message with short information “kick their asses” (something like this I don’t remember exactly). But I laughing long time when I heard this first time.

Graham I think that you don’t have nothing against that I not write how this situation ended

[roots]

slightly off topic but thanks to all the European countries who supply some of the most exciting skilled players in the NHL..be a damn dull league with just Canadians and Yanks.

[rockies]

Maybe the player who's born in Borneo have an other nationality
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Son of a christian missionary ?

Robyn Regehr was born in Brazil and grew up in Borneo, Indonesia where his parent, Mennonite missionaries, were working. He did not play hockey until the age of eight.