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Best Hockey City on Earth?

Don't know about cities.. but The Best Hockey Town on Earth is Finland :sarcasm:

Finland population 5.414 million
New York City population 8.337 million
 
Somebody from Kladno should answer.

Czech fans arnt nothing special. Hard to explain, but people watch sport a lot on TV, i think.
Kladno is poor. In 90s steel industry and coal mining collapsed
Half of city at morning gets up and commute to Prague
 
If you talk about guys having lived in one place it is cheap but Ann Arbor gets U of M and UMNTDP. You forget those players live there for a couple years, remember Kessel and JVR talked about being excited to go back to a place where they have lived and really grew up a great deal as hockey players and people.

In terms of the Detroit area Livonia has a lot of guys for a suburb.

Modano, Kesler, Moss, Krug, Riley Barber, Palushaj, a bunch of guys that have been pretty good college players. Not the top of the list, but I am always surprised at the talent put out of that one particular area in Metro Detroit.
 
DarzipanMildo said:
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
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Kobasew and your 2 goalies grew up nowhere close to Vancouver and played all their minor hockey in Ossoyoss, Williams Lake, and Prince George respectively.

This is a cool thought though and. I am pretty sure Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal, and Moscow would probably have close to the best teams. One would think.
 
Namejs said:
So what would be the lineup for Team Kladno? 5 NHL players won't get you anywhere. :)
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the rest will be from KHL(like Sekac, the best scorer for Lev Prague, Sevc from KHL is also from Kladno , formally in KHL currently in extraliga Horava,Cermak etc.)
extraliga, where most of the Kladno team are natives+lot of them are in other teams


first two lines will be good and the rest
 
isn't there some small town in Saskatchewan that holds the title of having produced more NHL players per person than any other place in the world?
 
Leafsdude7 said:
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. :nod:



Could be worse. You could be Kladno and lose over half your active points from 1 player. ;) :laugh:
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lol Spezza doesn't even make the cut for team Toronto
 
smurfyeah19 said:
Metro Detroit, probably the best grounds in the US for elite hockey players
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Whats your team? Twin Cities Metro Area is pretty tough to beat in the US.

Zach Parise- David Backes - Kyle Okposo
Blake Wheeler - Derek Stepan - Dustin Byfuglien
Ryan Carter - Nick Bjugstad - Matt Hendricks
Nick Leddy - Jordan Schroeder - JT Brown

Paul Martin - Ryan McDonagh
Jordan Leopold - Erik Johnson
Tom Gilbert - Jamie McBain

Alex Stalock


Solid Top 6 forwards, and good defense. Goalie and Forward depth leave a bit to be desired. Had to move Leddy to forward.
 
damicius said:
the rest will be from KHL(like Sekac, the best scorer for Lev Prague, Sevc from KHL is also from Kladno , formally in KHL currently in extraliga Horava,Cermak etc.)
extraliga, where most of the Kladno team are natives+lot of them are in other teams


first two lines will be good and the rest
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So it's not a very good lineup then. Only 7 players from NHL/KHL. The Czech Extraliga has become much worse than it was 10 years ago. There's a Latvian on the Kladno team who would have a hard time making the Latvian B team. Last year another Latvian played on that team and had 0.75 PPG, even though he's the worst player in the Latvian national team and is limited to a checking role.

Riga>Kladno.
 
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