Small cities and villages wit many NHL players

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New Blue Jackets head coach Dean Evason is from city named Flin Flon (according to Wikipedia, The town's name is taken from the lead character Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin in a 1905 paperback novel, The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock).

Small city, with 5 000 inhabitants.

This little city is the birthplace of NHL great and Hall of Fame member Bobby Clarke. As captain of the team, he led the Philadelphia Flyers to two NHL Stanley Cup championships in the 1970s, and was a star on the 1972 Team Canada Summit Series roster.
Other NHLers hailing from Flin Flon include Ken Baird, Ken Baumgartner, Matt Davidson, Kim Davis, Dean Evason, Al Hamilton, Ted Hampson (who was captain of the Flin Flon Bombers Memorial Cup team in 1957 and the second player to ever receive the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy), Gerry Hart, Ron Hutchinson, George Konik, Ray Maluta, Tom Gilmore, Dunc McCallum, Eric Nesterenko, Mel Pearson, Reid Simpson, David Struch, and Ernie Wakely.

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[jigglysquishy]

Flin Flon is just the craziest. It's way up north in the bush. Completely isolated. 400 km away from the nearest community over 5000 people. 550 km away from the nearest real airport. It's the last road north. I mean that literally. You cannot drive north of Flin Flon because roads don't exist .

Northern Saskatchewan in general is just empty. 35,000 people in an area the size of Italy or the US state of Arizona.

That it even got one NHLer is remarkable. That it got multiple is absolutely insane.

 

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The gold mining town of Kirkland Lake in Northern Ontario. It's population peaked around 20,000 around 1940 when gold mining was at its peak, and has steadily declined since then to it's current population of 8000.

Kirkland Lake produced many NHL players in the 50s and 60s, including Ted Lindsay, Ralph Backstrom, Dick Duff, Gus Mortson, Larry and Wayne Hillman, Bob, Bill, and Barclay Plager, Floyd Curry, Mike Walton, Mickey and Dick Redmond, Tom Webster, and Willie Marshall. It was called the town that made the NHL.

Mining magnate Harry Oakes built an indoor arena in Kirkland Lake in 1928, said to be the best rink north of Toronto at the time. When Kirkland Lake's golden generation was growing up, there were enough minor hockey players in town for four teams per age group, which allowed a lot of opportunity for games and competition. Today, Kirkland Lake can only support one team, which has to travel hundreds of kilometres to play opponents.

Kirkland Lake

Kirkland Lake is a town of about 8000 people in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is under the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Kirkland Lake Blue Devils (1930s-1950s) (Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, 2011-2012) renamed Gold Miners Kirkland Lake Gold Miners (Northern Ontario Junior...

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[MadLuke]

Desjardins-Turgeon (Pierre)-Matteau were all born around the same time in Rouyn, a city that had Houle-Laperriere-Sylvain turgeon before.

About 18k people in 1969, it had quite the kids could walk to the arena and play hockey for $20 environment.

According to wiki, notable (some are missing):
Dave Keon, Jacques Laperrière, Réjean Houle, Pierre Turgeon, Sylvain Turgeon, Éric Desjardins, Dale Tallon, Stéphane Matteau, Jacques Cloutier, Christian Bordeleau, Jean-Pierre Bordeleau, Paulin Bordeleau, André Racicot, Hubert Martin, Gordie McRay, Jacques Cossette, Jean Lemieux, Roland Cloutier, Marc-André Cliche, Wayne Connely, Maurice St-Jacques, Rogatien Vachon, Serge Savard, K.Douglas, Ted Ouimet, Steve Sutherland.