Best Hockey City on Earth?

[PuckOut]

Stockholm, Sweden

Landeskog Krüger Zibanejad
Hörnqvist Josefson Rakell
Videll T.MÃ¥rtensson Engquist
Cehlin J.Nordström Klasen

Kronwall Oduya
Murray Tallinder
Urbom S.Kronwall

Läck
Gustavsson

(some of the lower lines could be interchanged with players of the same sort of caliber of course)

 

[MessierII]

and some guy named Messier

That was for active players.

 

[achtungbaby]

Wow. Edmonton dominated the active players points list, it's not even close. Toronto is a distant second with Kladno and London fighting for 3rd.

 

[hans26]

Read the entire thread before posting. This is not about which city has more NHL players, but rather about which city could field the best team.

Still Kladno over Riga.

 

[Namejs]

Still Kladno over Riga.

Can you post your lineup? As far as I know, you've got a couple of NHLers, a couple of guys from KHL and the rest of them are Extraliga scrubs and you might even have to include some guys from your 2nd division. Sounds smilar to Slovenia in strength.

If you want to see the Riga one, look up the Latvian Sochi roster.

 

[hans26]

Can you post your lineup?

Sekáč-Plekanec-Jágr
Frolík-Tlustý-Voráček
Huml-Patera-Ton
Tenkrát-Burger-Hořava

Å evc-Skrbek
Kaberle-Piskáček
Platil-Hořava

Pavelec

G: K>R
D: K<R
F: K>R

 

[tinyzombies]

Team Toronto:

L| C| R
Mike Cammalleri| Steven Stamkos| Chris Stewart
Matt Moulson| Stephen Weiss| Cody Hodgson
Andrew Cogliano| Chris Kelly| Jeff Skinner
Daniel Winnik| Brandon Pirri| David Clarkson
Matt Halischuk| |

Ex: Wayne Simmonds

HM: Raffi Torres, Steve Downie, Peter Holland, Mike Blunden, Rich Clune, Anthony Stewart, Reilly Smith, Devante Smith-Pelly, Anthony Camera, Christian Thomas

D| D
Mark Giordano| P.K. Subban
Trevor Daley| Chris Tanev
Carlo Colaiacovo| Dougie Hamilton
Brendan Smith

Ex: Theo Peckham

HM: Derek Joslin, Jamie Oleksiak, Mike Kostka, Ryan Murphy.

G
Brian Elliot
Chris Beckford-Tseu
Andy Chiodo

Team Montreal:

L| C| R
Dupuis| Lecavalier| St-Louis
Burrows| Ribeiro| Chiasson
Killorn| Talbot| Leblanc
Bordeleau| T. Mitchell| Lapierre

D| D
Vlasic| Letang
Savard| Demers
Despres| Scandella/Barberio

G
Luongo
Crawford
Bernier
Brodeur
Giguere
Poulin

Might actually be a good game. Toronto's depth is a step ahead, but we have the goaltending. I included the burbs. Montreal's second and third lines would be irritating as hell.

 

[tinyzombies]

I redid the Toronto area team:

Neal - Tavares - Stamkos
Nash - Spezza - Seguin
Moulson - Weiss - Skinner
Cammalleri - Bolland - Reilly Smith
Simmonds/Boyes/C. Stewart/Clarkson/Downie/Kelly/Winnik/Stajan/Rinaldo/Carcillo

Giordano - Subban
Del Zotto - Pietrangelo
Hamilton - Tanev
Daley

S. Mason
Elliott

 

[that is unfortunate]

Can you post your lineup? As far as I know, you've got a couple of NHLers, a couple of guys from KHL and the rest of them are Extraliga scrubs and you might even have to include some guys from your 2nd division. Sounds smilar to Slovenia in strength.

If you want to see the Riga one, look up the Latvian Sochi roster.

A Latvian calling Extraliga players scrubs, really?

Kladno would destroy Riga.

 

[smitty10]

Toronto. A lot of great players from the GTHL and surrounding OMHA centres. Tavares, Nash, Stamkos, Subban, Spezza, Seguin, Neal, etc.

 

[Predsrule]

On a smaller scale.. Bonavista, Newfoundland.

Population: 3,764

Produced guys like the Ryder brothers, Adam Pardy, Matt Bragg and a few other good junior players that most wouldn't recognize. It's not much, but it's still pretty remarkable given their tiny population.

Also once had an unreal goalie in Freeman till he moved away per population they would take the cake.

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/city-totals/active-nhl-players-career-stats.html

Edmonton, apparently.

Turku, Finland in second. Teemu Selänne's totals are listed for Helsinki, while in fact he was born in Turku.

1717+1448 = 3165

Funny thing is Edmonton's totals come from 22 players while Turku from 6..

Source, in Finnish: http://www.ts.fi/urheilu/1074210991/Turussa+syntynyt+stadilainen

 

[Phil McKraken]

Not a city, but the province of Ångermanland (pop. 130 000) has produced like half of Sweden's best players, including two Hart winners, two Pearson/Lindsay winners, a Norris/Conn Smythe winner, and pretty soon a Vezina winner in Ullmark. Apart that there's been like 50 other NHL-ers from Ångermanland.

 

[Czechboy]

8 year bump... If we can count guys born in the city AND who played in the city then London, Ontario.

Knights have a first rounder every year (usually not a Londoner) like Tavares, Tkachuk, Marner and they've also had a few good players born in the city like Lindros, doughty, kadri and Joe Thornton.

 

[Albatros]

Not a city, but the province of Ångermanland (pop. 130 000) has produced like half of Sweden's best players, including two Hart winners, two Pearson/Lindsay winners, a Norris/Conn Smythe winner, and pretty soon a Vezina winner in Ullmark. Apart that there's been like 50 other NHL-ers from Ångermanland.

Great production in the late 1980s and the early 1990s definitely, not so much since overall at least. Made the TV-pucken provincial youth hockey final twice since 1994 which is not particularly impressive even among the sparsely populated Norrland provinces.

 

[Lambo]

Sao Paulo

 

[Elvs]

The town of Piteå in Sweden, which has roughly 20 000 citizens, has won 8 Stanley Cups

 

[Mathieukferland]

Cole Harbour

 

[Leaf Fans]

NHL Totals by Birth City - Active Players Career Stats

Edmonton, apparently.

Brantford is not represented and Gretz would have close to 3000 on his own

 

[BMann]

Surely the Moscow metropolitan area ? Led by Ovechkin.

 

[57special]

A lot of USA members are from Minnesota. Specifically Minneapolis. It could work out I guess. Would be difficult to fill an entire roster though for some countries.

Metro Minneapolis, which would include St. Paul, and it's suburbs. They would have some good players, but Having said that, you'd take someplace like Montreal, anyday.

Dickie Moore- Mario- Rocket
Nels Stewart- Pocket Rocket- Bossy
Robataille- Lemaire - Rod Gilbert
Damphousse- Krushelnyski- Rousseau

Harvey- Bourque
Lapointe- Letang
Vadnais- Bouchard

Brodeur
Parent
Chabot

 

[yessir29292]

Toronto would dominate.

 

[crobro]

Saskatoon

 

[Jaykay]

A Minnesota team would be pretty solid, especially now that we have a goalie:

Jake Guentzel-Brock Nelson-Blake Wheeler
Casey Mittelstadt-Anders Lee-Brock Boeser
Tommy Novak-Travis Boyd-TJ Oshie
Zach Parise-Blake Lizotte-Kyle Okposo
Noah Cates

K’Andre Miller-Justin Faulk
Ryan McDonagh-Nick Leddy
Brady Skjei-Justin Holl
Ryan Lindgren

Jake Oettinger
Charlie Lindgren
Alex Stalock

 

[Peiskos]

Spezza is from Mississauga...

The equivalent of saying a player from Brooklyn shouldn't make a New York team.