I see that many young german players are children of the north american players who played in Del in 1990s. Back then it was considered ridiculous that so many foreign players took the playtime from germans. No their children can represent Germany internationally. Maybe that wasn´t so bad thing after all to gather so many na-based players. Germany might even
Whereas that could be thought to be a natural side effect of so many North Americans having made player careers in Germany, very few of the North American kids have made it to Germany's national teams and in fact, very few of them are currently playing considerable roles in the DEL. Hardly any of them, to be honest.
On the other hand, Leon Draisaitl, Dominik Kahun, Matthias Plachta and kids on the way such as Lukas Reichel and Tobias Ancicka are all sons of players born and raised in Eastern Europe who made a career of it in Germany.
There are kids coming up like Sam Dubé and Luigi Calce who are the sons of former Canadian imports. Nick Latta is a regular DELer (brother Louis is in the lower leagues) and they're the sons of Canadian Ken Latta, who played for a while and has coached a real long time. Same story for the four Samanski brothers, with Josh looking like the most promosing (just played for the WJC team and was with Oshawa last season). Mark MacKay was a bit of a DEL legend, but his sons never really amounted to much in the pro circuits.
These are just the examples off the top of my mind (I could be overlooking some guys), but the North American kids just haven't made the impact on the program - or in the pro ranks here - that has been seen by the sons of Eastern Europeans who played here.
Sidenote:
Dmen Tommy Pasanen and Jesse Kauhanen are up-n-comers in the German system and both are sons of Finns who made a career of it in Germany.