Best Hockey City on Earth?

[Pizza the Hutt]

If countries were reduced to picking players from only ONE of their cities, how does that change things?

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[WaltWhitman]

If countries were reduced to picking players from only ONE of their cities, how does that change things?

What if all the cities had a playoff to decide who represents?

 

[DrunkElkCZ]

You mean players who were born in those cities or grew up with a hockey club from those cities? If you mean those players who were born in those cities, then I would choose Kladno in Czech republic

 

[Pizza the Hutt]

What if all the cities had a playoff to decide who represents?

Yeah - exactly. Like a little league world series.

Vancouver might look something like:

Lucic - Nugent-Hopkins - Kobasew
Kane - Santorelli - Yip
Ladd - Renhart - Johansen
Seabrook - Hannan
Hunt - Dillon

Price
LaBarbara

 

[Pizza the Hutt]

You mean players who were born in those cities or grew up with a hockey club from those cities? If you mean those players who were born in those cities, then I would choose Kladno in Czech republic

Born/raised in the cities. Montreal could only use Montreal boys. Helsinki, Helsinki boys, etc.

 

[SirKillalot]

If countries were reduced to picking players from only ONE of their cities, how does that change things?

Some nations have to stay home

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Buffalo. They're the real "hockeytown". They support their team no matter what.

No sarcasm at all there^

or there^

 

[SCBlueLiner]

You could field a very good Team USA made of players from only the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.

 

[feffan]

If the year was around 2003 you would be hard to find anything better per capita than Örnsköldsvik and surrounding villages. From around 40.000 people and only picking players who became regular NHL:ers born about 1970-80:
Forsberg
Näslund
Sundström
Sedin x 2
H Jonsson
Enström
Timander
Svartvadet

And great SHL-players (who many have a couple of NHL-games and/or where nationalplayers):
Salomonsson
Öhman
Öberg
HÃ¥llberg
Nordgren
Wernblom
T Pettersson
Söderberg
O Hedman
Hedin

 

[hockeydude1]

A lot of USA members are from Minnesota. Specifically Minneapolis. It could work out I guess. Would be difficult to fill an entire roster though for some countries.

 

[Namejs]

Pretty much everyone's from Riga in the Latvian national team.

If all the countries had to pick only 1 city to represent them, we wouldn't be far from being contenders.

 

[Pizza the Hutt]

If the year was around 2003 you would be hard to find anything better per capita than Örnsköldsvik and surrounding villages. From around 40.000 people and only picking players who became regular NHL:ers born about 1970-80:
Forsberg
Näslund
Sundström
Sedin x 2
H Jonsson
Enström
Timander
Svartvadet

And great SHL-players (who many have a couple of NHL-games and/or where nationalplayers):
Salomonsson
Öhman
Öberg
HÃ¥llberg
Nordgren
Wernblom
T Pettersson
Söderberg
O Hedman
Hedin

I know a guy who plays for Modo, the tales of Örnsköldsvik are mythic.

 

[HarrisonFord]

"COLE HARBOUR, NOVA SCOTIA" - Pierre McGuire

 

[Made Dan]

"COLE HARBOUR, NOVA SCOTIA" - Pierre McGuire

He would go nuts trying to figure out what to say. I'd imagine he'd just say throughout the game that everyone is from that location, citing them individually but spread out.

 

[HarrisonFord]

He would go nuts trying to figure out what to say. I'd imagine he'd just say throughout the game that everyone is from that location, citing them individually but spread out.

yup, and don't forget them all probably going to Shattuck-St. Mary's!

 

[RedWingsForPresident]

Atlanta, Georgia

 

[Aela*]

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/city-totals/active-nhl-players-career-stats.html

Edmonton, apparently.

 

[koyo]

How about...

Trencin, Slovakia?

Here's a link to the list of players who've been raised in the club:

http://forums.internationalhockey.net/showthread.php?8243-Dukla-Trencin-NHL-players

 

[Pyrophorus]

Toronto and/or the GTA?

As one or separate

 

[Pizza the Hutt]

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/city-totals/active-nhl-players-career-stats.html

Edmonton, apparently.

Good job Edmonton, except without Iginla they lose nearly a third of their overall points.

 

[Leafsdude7]

Not totally clear on what being "from a city" means in the context, but I'll assume it means being born and raised in the city (or its suburbs, eg: Markham, Richmond Hill, Etobicoke, Vaughan) and not "general area" cities (eg: Brampton [Nash] or Oakville [Tavares]) for this exercise:

Team Toronto:

[table=head]L| C| R
Mike Cammalleri| Steven Stamkos| Chris Stewart
Matt Moulson| Stephen Weiss| Cody Hodgson
Andrew Cogliano| Chris Kelly| Jeff Skinner
Daniel Winnik| Brandon Pirri| David Clarkson
Matt Halischuk| |[/table]

Ex: Wayne Simmonds

HM: Raffi Torres, Steve Downie, Peter Holland, Mike Blunden, Rich Clune, Anthony Stewart, Reilly Smith, Devante Smith-Pelly, Anthony Camera, Christian Thomas

[table=head]D| D
Mark Giordano| P.K. Subban
Trevor Daley| Chris Tanev
Carlo Colaiacovo| Dougie Hamilton
Brendan Smith[/table]

Ex: Theo Peckham

HM: Derek Joslin, Jamie Oleksiak, Mike Kostka, Ryan Murphy.

[table=head]G
Brian Elliot
Chris Beckford-Tseu
Andy Chiodo[/table]

HM: Eddie Pasquale, JP Anderson, Adam Dennis (if ones that have played for other countries can be included).

Goalies clearly suck, and the blueline is very shallow, but the offense is still there. At least in NHL terms, Toronto still takes the cake, IMO.

Good job Edmonton, except without Iginla they lose nearly a third of their overall points.

Could be worse. You could be Kladno and lose over half your active points from 1 player.

 

[tmlmatus]

Trencin, Slovakia?

Here's a link to the list of players who've been raised in the club:

http://forums.internationalhockey.net/showthread.php?8243-Dukla-Trencin-NHL-players

Also considering that the city has like 50000 people, and the region it self is under 600k people.

 

[NEWFowler]

On a smaller scale.. Bonavista, Newfoundland.

Population: 3,764

Produced guys like the Ryder brothers, Adam Pardy, Matt Bragg and a few other good junior players that most wouldn't recognize. It's not much, but it's still pretty remarkable given their tiny population.

 

[Big Phil]

Toronto and/or the GTA?

As one or separate

First one I thought of as well. Hard to see a city competing with that.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Good job Edmonton, except without Iginla they lose nearly a third of their overall points.

and some guy named Messier