Ancestral Teams

[carjackmalone]

Dale Weise needs to be on team Netherlands/Belguim

 

[VanIslander]

Slovaks & Czechs should have separate teams. There are more than enough with ancestry.

TEAM CZECH(O)SLOVAKIA

Byron Dafoe (Czechia)
Jim Hrivnak (Czechia)

Zdeno Chára (Czechia) – Scott Stevens (Slovakia)
Larry Cahan (Slovakia) - Ron Greschner (Slovakia)
Moose Vasko (Slovakia) – Andrew Ference (Slovakia)
Extra d’man: Neil Komadoski (Czechia)

Mike Cammalleri (Slovakia/Italy) - Alex Delvecchio (Slovakia/Italy) - Wally Hergesheimer (Czechia)
Thomas Vanek (Czechia) - Leon Draisaitl (Czechia) - Phil Hergesheimer (Czechia)
Taylor Hall (Slovakia/Australia) – Tomas Plekanec (Slovakia) – Robbie Ftorek (Slovakia)
Kevin Fiala (Czechia) – Paul Stastny (Slovakia) – Matthew Knies (Slovakia)
Extra forward: Kevin Labanc (Slovakia)

 

[MadArcand]

How would an all-time blonde team do against dark haired?

Something like

Hull-Gretzky-Kurri

Lidstrom-Orr

Vs.

Lemieux-Crosby-Jagr

Bourque-Harvey

Just to start with… I’ll try to add to this later if anyone wants to join

The OP literally has Orr's very brown-haired photo in his avatar and you still put him on team Blonde?

 

[authentic]

The OP literally has Orr's very brown-haired photo in his avatar and you still put him on team Blonde?

His hair is fairly light compared to the dark haired players though… like he really is somewhere in the middle but yeah you’re right I suppose

 

[Johnny Engine]

As a former blonde child, Bobby Orr is what almost all of us end up looking like - even Stamkos and Nylander currently have hair you'd have to call "brown" if you were holding it up to a swatch.

I don't believe I've seen any conclusive childhood photos of Ken Dryden, but out of the very best goalies of all time, he seems likely to have been roughly that variety of human being before becoming another mousey brown adult like the rest of us.

 

[FerrisRox]

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)

Owen Nolan was born in Belfast, Ireland.

 

[authentic]

As a former blonde child, Bobby Orr is what almost all of us end up looking like - even Stamkos and Nylander currently have hair you'd have to call "brown" if you were holding it up to a swatch.

I don't believe I've seen any conclusive childhood photos of Ken Dryden, but out of the very best goalies of all time, he seems likely to have been roughly that variety of human being before becoming another mousey brown adult like the rest of us.

Yes. Bobby Orr had lighter hair earlier on. I don’t think he was ever full on blonde like Gretzky but atleast a lighter brown.

 

[carjackmalone]

Celebrini should be on team Croatia

 

[The Panther]

Owen Nolan was born in Belfast, Ireland.

Well, Northern Ireland (UK), unless you simply mean the island of Ireland...