Create a roster with active players born in your province/state

[Opus]

Team Arizona:

Brady Tkachuk - Sean Couturier - Matthew Tkachuk
Matthew Knies - Tage Thompson - Mark Kastelic
Nobody - Nobody - Josh Doan
Nobody - Nobody - Nobody
(The ghost of Jesse Ylonen)

Nobody - Nobody
Nobody - Nobody
Nobody - Nobody
(The ghost of Jim Brown)

Nobody
Nobody
(The ghost of Ty Conklin)

That's literally every player who has ever played in the NHL who was born in Arizona. And before anyone tries to bring it up, Auston Matthews was actually born in California, so I can't use him. He grew up in Arizona and learned to play hockey there, but wasn't born there.

I've never pictured ghosts on skates before, but here I am.... thanks for the visual!

 

[SantosHalper]

Had to add retired players to make team Northern Savonia

Jarmo Kekäläinen - Olli Jokinen - Marko Tuomainen
Sami Kapanen - Oliver Kapanen - Kasperi Kapanen
Teemu Hartikainen - Eetu Luostarinen - Valtteri Puustinen
Petri Varis - Iiro Pakarinen - Jukka Hentunen

Kimmo Timonen - Jussi Timonen
Rasmus Rissanen - Markus Niemeläinen
X - X

X
X

Almost a full team.

 

[KAWAIlllI]

Stockholm län, Sweden:

Landeskog - Zibanejad - Bratt
Eklund - Wennberg - Rakell
Stenlund - Öhgren - Janmark
Holtz - x - Rosen

Kylington - Englund
Olausson

I think?

 

[Rafafouille]

It pains me to see how far Quebec has fallen in producing quality hockey players. If you were to make an all-time team, there is not a single active player that would make the team. I don't live there anymore, so I can't really offer an opinion why. Anyone want to throw out some opinions why they can't seem to produce hockey players anymore?

We're broke. It's as simple as follow the money. Hockey went from cheap to upper middle class just to play in a team and then for high end hockey you need to be top 5% income to afford it. Lower wages combined with higher taxes makes it unaffordable. Most parents just have them play soccer in the summer instead, much cheaper. Not surprised at all to see Ontario and Alberta being the main talent producers in the country nowadays.

 

[Shroud of Orrin]

Nova Scotia

Marchand Crosby Killorn
M. Barron MacKinnon Highmore
O'Brien Bowers Steinberg
Melanson Quillan XXX

Graves J. Barron
XXX XXX
XXX XXX

XXX
XXX

 

[Ford Prefect]

We're broke. It's as simple as follow the money. Hockey went from cheap to upper middle class just to play in a team and then for high end hockey you need to be top 5% income to afford it. Lower wages combined with higher taxes makes it unaffordable. Most parents just have them play soccer in the summer instead, much cheaper. Not surprised at all to see Ontario and Alberta being the main talent producers in the country nowadays.

I don't think that's it at all. Quality players aren't just coming from the affluent areas. Sure, it's easier if you have parents that can stomach the cost, but many players come from areas you wouldn't associate with money. And you can't tell me that there's no money in Quebec; how come TMR, Westmount, the West Island, etc. aren't producing anything? It's not a money thing, though the expense hasn't helped. Is it bad coaching? Not enough skills training? Lack of interest? Maybe because the province lost the Nordiques and the Habs haven't really been good in 30 years? Through the '90s, Quebec was the goalie factory of the NHL because everyone wanted to be Patrick Roy. No one to emulate?

Maybe money has something to do it with it, but it's not nearly the only thing. How can California and Arizona produce better quality players than the 2nd most populous province in Canada?

 

[justHypnos]

I don't think that's it at all. Quality players aren't just coming from the affluent areas. Sure, it's easier if you have parents that can stomach the cost, but many players come from areas you wouldn't associate with money. And you can't tell me that there's no money in Quebec; how come TMR, Westmount, the West Island, etc. aren't producing anything? It's not a money thing, though the expense hasn't helped. Is it bad coaching? Not enough skills training? Lack of interest? Maybe because the province lost the Nordiques and the Habs haven't really been good in 30 years? Through the '90s, Quebec was the goalie factory of the NHL because everyone wanted to be Patrick Roy. No one to emulate?

Maybe money has something to do it with it, but it's not nearly the only thing. How can California and Arizona produce better quality players than the 2nd most populous province in Canada?

This argument is not impossible, as no one of NHL age has seen a good forward on the Habs. But by that logic, Ontario/GTA should've had a cold streak for when they only had Kessel, and Quebec should at least be producing Subban and Price clones.

To be honest I think many if not most hockey players here play dek hockey instead of ice hockey these days, based on my own anecdotal evidence. So I think it's about money. Isn't California the richest state in the US ? And Arizona has hardly produced anything, those guys' dads were simply all playing there when they were born. Almost all of them anyway. Advantage of a good location nothing else.

 

[wunderpanda]

took a chunk of states that can't make teams alone, the 13 'southern' states. 4 (ga, tn, ark, ky) had no active nhl players this season. left a few guys off to get more states represented.

team dixie

keller(mo)-hughes (fla)-frederic(mo)
kovalenko(nc)-lowry(mo)-noeson(tx)
coleman (tx)-hartman(sc)-o'connor(tx)
olivier(ms)-dowd (al)-duhaime (fla)

q hughes (fla)-chychrun (fla)
z jones (va)-s jones(tx)
lohrei (la)-kesselring(sc)

woll(mo)

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Oh this sucks…

Steve Thomas, Nathan Walker, Owen Nolan
Steve Smith, Joe Hall

Charlie Gardiner
Byron Dafoe

You know what this is dumb, we have you wankers the Cup, I don’t need this.

 

[Toby91ca]

Long Island (only did the 5 lines and 4 pairs because that's all Long Island has and no I can't use active players since not enough exist for a full lineup):
Sonny Milano-Shane Pinto-Kyle Palmieri
Eric Nystrom-Brandon Sutter-Chris Higgins
Matt Coronato-Chris Ferraro-Peter Ferraro
Earl Ingarfeld-Richie Hansen-Ryan Vesce
Pat Cannone-Garret Pilon-Matt Anderson

McAvoy-Fox
Rob Scudieri-Mike Komisarek
Matt Gilroy-Anthony Bitetto
Rob O'Gara-Ryan Ufko

Keith Kinkaid
Joe Schaefer
Paul Skidmore

But Long Island isn’t a state

 

[uncleben]

Team Arizona:

Brady Tkachuk - Sean Couturier - Matthew Tkachuk
Matthew Knies - Tage Thompson - Mark Kastelic
Nobody - Nobody - Josh Doan
Nobody - Nobody - Nobody
(The ghost of Jesse Ylonen)

Nobody - Nobody
Nobody - Nobody
Nobody - Nobody
(The ghost of Jim Brown)

Nobody
Nobody
(The ghost of Ty Conklin)

That's literally every player who has ever played in the NHL who was born in Arizona. And before anyone tries to bring it up, Auston Matthews was actually born in California, so I can't use him. He grew up in Arizona and learned to play hockey there, but wasn't born there.

* Sad Matthew Kessel noises *

I'll try Florida too since I live here now.

Brandon Duhaime - Jack Hughes - Garnet Hathaway
Nobody - Nobody - Nobody
Nobody - Nobody - Nobody
Nobody - Nobody - Nobody

Quinn Hughes - Jakob Chychrun
Jaycob Megna - Seamus Casey
Shayne Gostisbehere - Andrew Peeke

Nobody
Nobody
(Not even the ghost of anybody; no goaltender born in Florida has ever played a single NHL game)

You're missing Jayson Megna and Ryan Carpenter, upfront, they're at least still playing..!
And you I'm sure you could squeeze some juice out of *checks notes* 48 year old Dan Hinote...