Lately I’ve seen people here putting together all-time teams from different countries, lefties vs righties, and so on. So I decided to do a rather silly compilation that is a bit more challenging. Create teams based on the ancestry of former and current players (Predominantly NHL’ers)
In the past, it was not uncommon for countries like Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria and others, to bolster their national teams with predominantly North American players who had ancestral connections to that specific country. Italians for example were known to have a lot of “Oriundi” players who had close ancestral ties to Italy. They acquired citizenship more easily than immigrants not of native extraction
I have kept it within two generations (Parents and Grandparents). This means that at least one parent or grandparent of the player must be a native of the country the player is representing.
A player can not be born in the country he is representing, although I made a few exceptions for players born in so called non-traditional hockey countries.
There are of course players that have roots in several countries, so I used them where I thought they were needed the most.
Some examples of teams:
TEAM AFRICA/CARIBBEAN
Grant Fuhr (Barbados)
Kevin Weekes (Barbados)
Ray Emery (Jamaica)
Francis Bouillon (Haiti) – P.K. Subban (Jamaica & Montserrat)
Herb Gardiner (South Africa) – Johnny Oduya (Kenya)
Darnell Nurse (Trinidad & Tobago) – Trevor Daley (Jamaica)
Extra d’man: Oliver Kylington (Eritrea)
Tony McKegney (Nigeria) - Kyle Okposo (Nigeria) - Jarome Iginla (Nigeria)
Evander Kane (Jamaica) - Anson Carter (Barbados) – Wayne Simmonds (Jamaica)
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare (Martinique) – Quinton Byfield (Jamaica) – Mike Grier (Barbados)
Anthony Duclair (Haiti) – Herb Carnegie (Jamaica) - Chris Stewart (Jamaica)
Extra forward: Joel Ward (Barbados)
I have no information on for example Dirk Graham, Ray Neufeld or Seth Jones. Do they have at least one parent/grandparent born in this part of the world?
TEAM ASIA
Peter Ing (China)
Jamie Storr (Japan)
Chris Beckford-Tseu (China)
Rod Langway (Taiwan)* - Dave Tanabe (Japan)
Jonas Siegenthaler (Thailand) - Mathew Dumba (Philippines)
Jordan Spence (Japan) - Jacob Bryson (Korea)
Extra d’man: Jim Paek (Korea)**
Paul Kariya (Japan) – Mika Zibanejad (Iran) - Doug Sulliman (Lebanon)
Jason Robertson (Phillipines) – Nazem Kadri (Lebanon) – Richard Park (Korea)**
Brandon Saad (Syria) – Manny Malhotra (Pakistan) - Devin Setoguchi (Japan)
Justin Abdelkader (Jordan) - Devin Shore (Philippines) - Kiefer Sherwood (Japan)
Extra forward: Dick Gamble (India)
* Born there (American parents)
** Born there
TEAM UNITED KINGDOM
England
Lorne Chabot (England)
George Hainsworth (England)
Roy Worters (England)
Bobby Orr (Ireland) – Paul Coffey (Ireland)
Doug Harvey (England) - Bill Gadsby (England)
King Clancy (Ireland) - Dit Clapper (Scotland)
Extra d’man: Lionel Conacher (Ireland)
Bobby Hull (England) - Nels Stewart (Ireland) - Mike Bossy (England/Ukraine/Poland)
Rick Martin (Scotland/France/Switzerland) - Dale Hawerchuk (England) - Cam Neely (Ireland)
Doug Bentley (England) - Max Bentley (England) - Charlie Conacher (Ireland)
Brendan Shanahan (Ireland) - Adam Oates (Parents) - Bill Cook (Ireland)
Extra forward: Bun Cook (Ireland)