Players From Countries Other Than Your Own You Prefer Over Players From Your Country?

[hangman005]

No love for Matt Schneider?

Who?

 

[SirPaste]

What country a player is from doesn't have anything to do with me liking them or not, weird thread.

 

[Three On Zero]

Who?

04 draft pick by Calgary Flames, from New Zealand

 

[Slats432]

I usually like a player for the player. I don't look up their nationality and say, hey he isn't Canadian so I don't like him. And mostly it is a team thing. If they play for the Oilers, I probably like them.

 

[waitin425]

If you play for the Habs I love you.

If you play for Team Canada on the International stage...I will love you for the tournament only.

I can't believe anyone would cheer against their own country in international competition. Insanity. Would suck if during 2010, you were Canadian, living in Canada at the time, and you weren't cheering for our boys to bring it home. Hahaha. That would really suck.

 

[hangman005]

04 draft pick by Calgary Flames, from New Zealand

Meh, he's Canadian.

 

[DitchMarner]

What country a player is from doesn't have anything to do with me liking them or not, weird thread.

I agree, but some people do support players based on Nationality. There's evidence of that on these boards.

 

[stppnmd]

I gotta be honest, i like a lot of players more than Nik Antropov.

 

[shakes the clown]

Gonna be real difficult for me to root for USA vs Bedard going forward. It was different when it was Toews/Keith vs USA because USA had Kaner. So never had a problem rooting against Canada in that scenario. I do like a lot of USA players even if there’s no Blackhawk to root for. Big fan of the Hughes and Tzachuk families and plenty others like Fox.

Damn gonna just be a win win for when those teams meet down the road. Happy no matter the outcome (provided of course that Bedard gets playing time unlike the ridiculous World Championships a few months ago. If that happens again damn right I’ll be rooting for Canada to get their ass kicked just like I ended up doing a few months ago)

 

[EdJovanovski]

I’m Canadian but have always been drawn to the Russian style of hockey. Grew up a huge Ovi fan and preferred him over Sid

 

[Stive Morgan]

I'm Canadian and I always loved Russians for some reason. Markov, Yashin, Radulov....

 

[mattihp]

I agree, but some people do support players based on Nationality. There's evidence of that on these boards.

Well, many of us Europeans got into the NHL through the world champs and or Olympics

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

nobody is a bigger fan of Australian NHLers than I

We have found the president of the Nathan Walker fan club

 

[Bounces R Way]

I might cheer for a Calgarian(or area) kid more than others but that's as really far as my tribe goes if they're not wearing the Team Canada jersey.

Have hated or loved a multitude of Canadian players. Same for the Russians, Finns, Swedes, Americans, Czechs, Slovaks, etc. Doesn't make much difference where you're from if you got talent and the attitude I'm partial to. Unless you're Norweigan. Will never cheer for those whale eating bastards.

 

[acor]

I don't know any players from my country, and I don't know what countries majority of hockey players come from... 2 years ago I thought Barkov is russian, and if I wasn't on hfboards, I'd prpbably still think that way, lol...

There's a joke thread about JT Miller on a main board... I watched him from early Rangers days, and liked him, even when most of fans disliked him, but... don't know what country he comes from. Lucky guess would be from Canada (as most comes from Canada), but if he comes from USA, or another country, it wouldn't surprise me as well.

For me, REAL nationality of players is the team they represent.

 

[theanomaly]

I have a soft spot for the ones who are basically the only nhl star (in their time) from that country.

kopitar, irbe, draisaitl, etc...

There's that hope in the back of my mind of it spurring a hockey revolution in said country.

 

[Boxscore]

I'm American so there are tons of favorite players, both currently and all-time who are not from the States.

 

[DamonDRW]

I'm Russian, but I love Canadian power forwards such as Shanahan, Bertuzzi, Neely.

 

[joestevens29]

Don’t really care which country players are from in any sport. Talented entertaining players is what I like. Non matter why nationality, gender, race etc

 

[sr edler]

Finns admire the hell out of Sundin. He was a finn killer in every game he played, unfortunately.

Ahah so this is why Mulletman is such a Leafs fan? It all makes sense now.

 

[DitchMarner]

Ahah so this is why Mulletman is such a Leafs fan? It all makes sense now.

My feeling on that has been that he is (or claims to be) a Leafs fan because he thinks it makes him look edgy/cool in a way and that fits his image on here.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Tough to say. Russians are skilled players.

 

[ViD]

I really like that Finn, Alexander Barkov.

Also appreciate Finnish stars - Leo Komarov, Joonas Donskoi, Miika Kiprusoff

 

[MNRube]

Forsberg (swedish) may be my favourite non -Ranger ever.

Forsberg was so much fun to watch, he’s definitely up there for me too.

 

[RRhoads]

I am Norwegian, and there are way too many players to list them all.