Since y’all loved the Canada/US map, here’s a Europe one

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  1. Cool! Only two NHLers from Poland, but 50% of them got the Stanley cup 😅 (Krzysztof Oliwa, an enforcer, with the Devils in 2000).

  2. It is sort of weird seeing that there are no ICE hockey players from ICEland.

    Also, who are the Irish and British players?

  3. If the source is hockey reference there are a couple things that look off. The scale doesn’t seem to be correct, as someone else pointed out Finland should be in the highest category. Also the UK has had like 50 NHL players. People are also wondering about Czechia and Slovakia, and I think that’s a data issue because a bunch of players are listed as Czechoslovakia.

  4. Who are the italians? are they born and raised in italy or “italian” americans/canadians.

  5. Please say Darius Kasparaitus counts for Lithuania and not Russia.  They have huge murals of him in the ice rink in the mall in Klaipeda.

  6. For Russia, Sweden, and Finland to have large amounts of players and Norway to have relatively only a handful is kind of shocking to me but what do I know I guess. As a red wings fan, super excited for my dude Brandsegg-Nygård! We tapped the Russian and Swedish pipeline before it was cool, on to Norway!

  7. Turkey has one, I forget who, but it was a news item a few years ago. Maybe a double citizen though.

  8. Sweden, Russia, Finland and Czechia has all produced over 150+ players. Sweden currently has 101 players in the NHL so this map feels inaccurate.

  9. Hang on. You’re telling me Wolf “The Dentist” Stansson isn’t a real NHL player? Iceland should be green.

  10. Hungary will get one in the next decade. Almost happened with Janos Vas.

    Poland has Oliwa and Czerkawski. Sidorkiewicz considered himself Canadian, as did Wolski.

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