NHL players by nationality in the 2 final teams

[Eye of Ra]

Oilers;

Canada; 18
Sweden, 3
Germany, 1
USA, 1

Panthers;

Canada, 9
Finland, 4
Sweden, 3
Russia , 3
USA, 2

Source; Eliteprospects

Anything noteworthy? For me its suprising how few americans. Canada is dominating.

 

[behemolari]

You can't win without a fin

 

[Spawn]

You can't win without a fin

Who was the Fin on Vegas last year?

 

[Sanf]

Who was the Fin on Vegas last year?

Yeah even though it is trivial Stanley Cup has avoided Finns. 14 different winners. Czechs has 29 and Swedes 42. The amount of Finns and Czechs that has played in NHL does not differ much. Out of the 20+ Germans who have played regularly 5 has won.

But like I said rather trivial.

 

[bert]

Oilers;

Canada; 18
Sweden, 3
Germany, 1
USA, 1

Panthers;

Canada, 9
Finland, 4
Sweden, 3
Russia , 3
USA, 2

Source; Eliteprospects

Anything noteworthy? For me its suprising how few americans. Canada is dominating.

Can't win with Americans.

 

[bert]

You can't win without a fin

Yup.

 

[Soul Assumption]

Who was the Fin on Vegas last year?

Tampa didn't have any Finns either. Same for St. Louis and Washington. So it's obviously not true.
However, you can't win the cup without Russians unless you're the Chicago Blackhawks. No Russians + Corey Perry = Edmonton has no chance. ZERO chance!

 

[Mestaruus]

Anything noteworthy? For me its suprising how few americans. Canada is dominating.

Interesting find with the lack of Muricans indeed.

 

[matsqq]

Finns always win finnish gold = bronze

 

[elmaco]

Fun fact: there's never been a finnish captain in a stanley cup winning team

 

[Derailed75]

Can't win with Americans.

Netter hope the Oils win the cup with a comment like that.

How many decades are we on now?

 

[Lartsaman]

You can't win without a fin

More like "You can´t win with a fin." Finnish players are masters of losing the Cup-finals. I might as well already say: Congratulations for the Stanley Cup Oilers! The finnish curse is way more stronger than the canadian one.

 

[Sanf]

Fun fact: there's never been a finnish captain in a stanley cup winning team

Well to be fair only four European captains have raised the trophy. There haven´t been Czechs either.

 

[Fatass]

There is something to be said for having a lot of Canadian players on a club. 18 Canadians on the Oilers.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

Fun fact: there's never been a finnish captain in a stanley cup winning team

Koivu won a Stanley Cup as the captain of the Canadiens.

Spoiler

in our hearts.

 

[snipes]

Even Derek Ryan, the lone American played for the University of Alberta Golden Bears.

Draisaitl, the lone German, played his junior hockey in the WHL in Canada.

Strong Canadian connections for the Oilers.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Oilers;

Canada; 18
Sweden, 3
Germany, 1
USA, 1

Panthers;

Canada, 9
Finland, 4
Sweden, 3
Russia , 3
USA, 2

Source; Eliteprospects

Anything noteworthy? For me its suprising how few americans. Canada is dominating.

Though he hasn't played, Stolarz has dressed for every game so that makes it 3 Americans for Florida. Still, 4 Americans in the Stanley Cup Final is the fewest since 1987 (2, Mark Howe and Ed Hospodar).

 

[tfwnogf]

finally a Canadian team with actual Canadians on it

 

[gretzkyoilers]

finally a Canadian team with actual Canadians on it

Yup. The Vancouver Canucks should be renamed the Vancouver Americans

 

[lextune]

Can't win with Americans.

2nd all-time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/i4c0xDgo39

 

[elmaco]

Koivu won a Stanley Cup as the captain of the Canadiens.

Spoiler

in our hearts.

Well at least he won cancer. That's an achievement too.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Matthew Tkachuk (no offense to old guys Derek Ryan and Kyle Okposo intended) is carrying the entire weight of American Hockey on his shoulders right now.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Well at least he won cancer. That's an achievement too.

Not much of a prize if you ask me

 

[Jason316]

To be fair we in the United States don't just have cold weather unlike Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia

 

[WarriorofTime]

Fun fact: there's never been a finnish captain in a stanley cup winning team

Finns, Russians and Americans are all probably pulling pretty hard for Florida to the extent they care about national representation on Stanley Cup winners.

The last time a team won the Cup and did not have a prominent Russian player was Chicago in 2014-15. Florida has 3 Russian players, one of whom is prominent (Goaltender Sergei Bobrovksy), Edmonton has none.