Your "stereotypical" European hockey players

[meangene]

Was having this conversation with a friend a few days ago: if Russian players are constantly getting stereotyped as "enigmatic" or "lazy but highly skilled", what do other European players get stereotyped as? Do they?

I've always wondered if there was a widely held "stereotype' for Swedes, Finns, Czech's, etc. like there are for Russians, and how these stereotypes get started?

Cheers.

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[wings5]

Finland : Hardworking, two-way players, more physical than your average European player.