Away teams keep using wrong picture for Elias Petterson

[Pablo El Perro]

Follow up, are they using the right photo in Vancouver?

 

[Bouboumaster]

Finland ain’t Scandinavia

I'm a moron, I tought they were part of it
My bad
Still, wtf

 

[Bounces R Way]

is uhhh that not correct?

 

[Regal]

Finland ain’t Scandinavia

To North Americans it is

 

[MK9]

It has been happening all year.

This is Elias Petterson Elias Pettersson (b.2004) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

And this, is Elias Petterson Elias Pettersson (b.1998) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Eh, they probably figure you can just pick about any picture of some dude from Sweden with a fivehead and throw it up there. I mean, really, as long as you get in the ballpark, it's all good.

 

[eXile3]

Broadcasts probably fired everybody and replaced them with AI.

 

[FiveTacos]

Imagine how Martin Gerber felt.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Admit it. You secretly hope the Panthers draft Cam Ward, don't you?

But he already plays for the Hurricanes...

Finland ain’t Scandinavia

A few years ago, there was an NHL Network game (own production, not a simulcast) where they asked a trivia question where they used Scandinavia and included Finland as part of it. I knew they were including Finland because I'm pretty sure it was a Dallas Stars game and I'm pretty sure the answer was Jere Lehtinen. Anyway, I wrote a comment directed to them on Twitter that their terminology was wrong...later on when the time came to answer the question, they had rectified the mistake, but no acknowledgment of the previous error or that they'd been corrected. (A brief Twitter search told me I was the only person who'd written a comment tagging them). My ego was a little bruised about that, although I was also slightly happy to know I'd made such an ever-so-slight impact on a live sports broadcast.

 

[rojac]

To North Americans it is

To some North Americans, it is. Those North Americans are wrong. Finland s not part of Scandanavia. If you want to group it with Sweden, Norway, etc., call them Nordic countries.

 

[rojac]

As for the two Elias Pattersons, perhaps the NHL and other sports leagues should take a page from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). When you join SAG, if there is already a member with the name you want to use, you must choose a different name. For example, when Michael J Fox joined SAG, he wanted to go by Michael Fox but there was already was already an actor in the union with that name, so he added the J even though his middle name is actually Andrew.

 

[Regal]

To some North Americans, it is. Those North Americans are wrong. Finland s not part of Scandanavia. If you want to group it with Sweden, Norway, etc., call them Nordic countries.

No I know, I’d just bet the vast majority of Canadians and Americans who don’t have some connection to the area assume Nordic and Scandinavian are interchangeable.