Percentage NHL Players By Country of Birth. cross post with r/dataisbeautiful 4 commentsIs hockey pretty popular in Canada?As an equivalency person I think this is a good argument for the league being way easier back then, given these patternsIn the 70s and 80s you have kharlamov and co playing in the USSR and players like Matti hagman mostly playing domesticallyThen ryan lomberg level playing big 3rd line roles, like… gosh, maybe I should add a coefficient to gretz and Mario’s numbersThe rise of American hockey really has been something the last decade. Just need to win some more national awards to cement it.It’s so good to see my home country Sweden in the picture.Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
As an equivalency person I think this is a good argument for the league being way easier back then, given these patternsIn the 70s and 80s you have kharlamov and co playing in the USSR and players like Matti hagman mostly playing domesticallyThen ryan lomberg level playing big 3rd line roles, like… gosh, maybe I should add a coefficient to gretz and Mario’s numbers
The rise of American hockey really has been something the last decade. Just need to win some more national awards to cement it.
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Is hockey pretty popular in Canada?
As an equivalency person I think this is a good argument for the league being way easier back then, given these patterns
In the 70s and 80s you have kharlamov and co playing in the USSR and players like Matti hagman mostly playing domestically
Then ryan lomberg level playing big 3rd line roles, like… gosh, maybe I should add a coefficient to gretz and Mario’s numbers
The rise of American hockey really has been something the last decade. Just need to win some more national awards to cement it.
It’s so good to see my home country Sweden in the picture.