NHL players from your hometown

StoneColdFlower*

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I went to high school with Jesse Wincester (Ottawa Senators) and a friend of my has a great uncle, John Sorrell, who played for Detroit. Our former Member of Parliament, Bob Kilger, was an NHL ref and his son Chad spent a few years in the NHL.
 
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BamBamCam*

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27 players.

From Mickey Roach, born May 1, 1895, to Chris Bourque born January 29, 1986....

....(actually Benn Ferriero b. April 29, 1987 is the latest, but I couldn't resist using Bourque's name, lol).


Little old Boxford has 27 players???
 

Briere Up There*

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Tom Fitzgerald, great player as a youth. We used to play against him at Babson quite often, Billerica had good teams back then.

That they did. Ralph Hallenborg, given the WHL and expansion, was almost certainly a lock for at least the WHL. He would have made it 5.

I had the distinct pleasure of being on some of the worst Billerica teams since the early 80s.
 

Vegeta

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Art Ross
Todd Bertuzzi
Hector Blake
Larry Aurie
Andrew Brunette
Cummy Burton
Randy Carlyle
Ron Duguay
Mike Foligno
Nick Foligno
Dave Fortier
Aaron Gavey
Eddie Giacomin
Dave Lowry
Derek MacKenzie
Dale McCourt
Brian Savage
Eddie Shack
Ivy Spencer
Dave Taylor
 

jcbio11

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Bratislava
Born and raised in Bratislava.

Considering we are the run away most populous city in the country, we didn't produce a lot of NHL players, but there are some gems -

Peter Stastny
Marian Stastny
Anton Stastny

Jaroslav Halak - only active NHL player from Bratislava. An acquaintance of mine went to elementary school with him. Btw he said he was always kind of slow and kind of bullied the younger kids a little bit :) (to be exact, he used the words "robil zle", it doesn't mean exactly "bullied", but that's the closest translation I can come up with) Seems really humble now, I guess he had to go through a lot to get where he is now. Plus everyone is dumb as a kid.

Some more obscure past NHL players born in Bratislava -

Dusan Pasek
Marian Cisar
Stanislav Gron
 

Killion

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Note: there are probably more players from North York who have their birth place listed as "Toronto".

Ya, there are. Dozens more. Some listed as Willowdale, others Toronto, but from North York proper......
 

Bohemian93

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I was born and currently live in the same town of 71,000. Despite It's decent population the town of Brossard hasn't managed to produce any notable players, though granted a couple junior players.

Neighboring cities here on the South shore of Montreal, having lower populations have produced some fairly decent players though.

Greenfield Park :
Sylvain Couturier(Father of Sean Couturier)
Torrey Mitchell
Gary Galley
Jerome Samson
Wally Weir
Frederic St Denis

St Lambert:
Steve Kasper
Jean-Marc Pelletier
Don McIver

Nothing much at all, a former Frank J. Selke winner in Kasper. I suppose Gary Galley is the best of the bunch.
 

ThankYouBasedGod

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Gordie Howe because Floral is in Saskatoon, not bad having a top four player ever. After that it's meh. :D

343 Brent Ashton 1980 1993 LW 998 284 345 629 -59 635 1960-05-18 Saskatoon
344 Bobby Schmautz 1968 1981 RW 764 271 286 557 41 988 1945-03-28 Saskatoon
345 Harry Watson* 1942 1957 LW 809 236 207 443 150 1923-05-06 Saskatoon
346 Darren Veitch 1981 1991 D 511 48 209 257 17 296 1960-04-24 Saskatoon
347 Don Kozak 1973 1979 RW 437 96 86 182 -37 480 1952-02-02 Saskatoon
348 Moe Lemay 1982 1989 LW 317 72 94 166 -37 442 1962-02-18 Saskatoon
349 Gerry Couture 1946 1954 RW 385 86 70 156 89 1925-08-06 Saskatoon
350 Ed Van Impe 1967 1977 D 700 27 126 153 70 1025 1940-05-27 Saskatoon
351 Cory Sarich 1999 2011 D 820 19 120 139 -9 969 1978-08-16 Saskatoon
352 Keith Magnuson 1970 1980 D 589 14 125 139 170 1442 1947-04-27 Saskatoon
353 Vic Lynn 1943 1954 LW/D 327 49 76 125 274 1925-01-26 Saskatoon
354 Gerry Pinder 1970 1972 LW 223 55 69 124 3 135 1948-09-15 Saskatoon
355 Darren Van Impe 1995 2003 D 411 25 90 115 -22 397 1973-05-18 Saskatoon
356 Dave Brown 1983 1996 RW 729 45 52 97 -37 1789 1962-10-12 Saskatoon
357 Rich Pilon 1989 2002 D 631 8 69 77 -48 1745 1968-04-30 Saskatoon
358 Todd Ewen 1987 1997 RW 518 36 40 76 -9 1911 1966-03-22 Saskatoon
359 Larry Melnyk 1981 1990 D 432 11 63 74 -40 686 1960-02-21 Saskatoon
360 Pat Lundy 1946 1951 C 150 37 32 69 31 1924-05-21 Saskatoon
361 Larry Sacharuk 1973 1977 D 151 29 33 62 -25 42 1952-09-16 Saskatoon
362 Lloyd Klein 1929 1938 LW 164 30 24 54 68 1910-01-13 Saskatoon
363 Gary Rissling 1979 1985 LW 221 23 30 53 -49 1008 1956-08-08 Saskatoon
364 Luke Schenn 2009 2011 D 226 11 39 50 -16 155 1989-11-02 Saskatoon
365 Mick Vukota 1988 1998 RW 574 17 29 46 -35 2071 1966-09-14 Saskatoon
366 Don Morrison 1948 1951 C 112 18 28 46 12 1923-07-14 Saskatoon
367 Darroll Powe 2009 2011 LW 198 21 21 42 -15 126 1985-06-22 Saskatoon
368 Ryan Bayda 2003 2009 LW 179 16 24 40 -20 94 1980-12-09 Saskatoon
369 Wade Belak 1997 2011 RW 549 8 25 33 -38 1263 1976-07-03 Saskatoon
370 Cliff Schmautz 1971 1971 RW 56 13 19 32 -8 33 1939-03-17 Saskatoon
371 George Pesut 1975 1976 D 92 3 22 25 -24 130 1953-06-17 Saskatoon
372 Chris McAllister 1998 2004 D 301 4 17 21 -27 634 1975-06-16 Saskatoon
373 Byron Bitz 2009 2010 RW 87 9 9 18 -8 51 1984-07-21 Saskatoon
374 Derek Boogaard 2006 2011 LW 277 3 13 16 -12 589 1982-06-23 Saskatoon
375 Rod Morrison 1948 1948 RW 34 8 7 15 4 1925-10-07 Saskatoon
376 Russ Brayshaw 1945 1945 LW 43 5 9 14 24 1918-01-17 Saskatoon
377 Ralph Wycherley 1941 1942 LW 28 4 7 11 6 1920-02-26 Saskatoon
378 John Harms 1944 1945 RW 44 5 5 10 21 1925-04-25 Saskatoon
379 Perry Ganchar 1984 1989 RW 42 3 7 10 -3 36 1963-10-28 Saskatoon
380 Cam Ward 2006 2011 G 340 0 9 9 0 14 340 171 125 32 .909 2.76 1984-02-29 Saskatoon
381 Bob Dawes 1947 1951 D/C 32 2 7 9 6 1924-11-29 Saskatoon
382 Jack Leswick 1934 1934 C 37 1 7 8 16 1910-01-01 Saskatoon
383 Kim Clackson 1980 1981 D 106 0 8 8 -11 370 1955-02-13 Saskatoon
384 Fred Williams 1977 1977 C 44 2 5 7 -17 10 1956-07-01 Saskatoon
385 Vic Howe 1951 1955 RW 33 3 4 7 10 1929-11-02 Saskatoon
386 Rod Norrish 1974 1975 LW 21 3 3 6 -5 2 1951-11-27 Saskatoon
387 Jim Hay 1953 1955 D 75 1 5 6 22 1931-05-15 Saskatoon
388 James Wright 2010 2011 C 49 2 3 5 -11 18 1990-03-24 Saskatoon
389 Bob Stephenson 1980 1980 RW 18 2 3 5 -5 4 1954-02-01 Saskatoon
390 George Senick 1953 1953 LW 13 2 3 5 8 1929-09-16 Saskatoon
391 Keith Allen 1954 1955 D 28 0 4 4 8 1923-08-21 Saskatoon
392 Warren Peters 2009 2011 C 38 3 0 3 -3 18 1982-07-10 Saskatoon
393 Shane Endicott 2002 2006 C 45 1 2 3 -10 47 1981-12-21 Saskatoon
394 Ron Boehm 1968 1968 LW 16 2 1 3 -5 10 1943-08-14 Saskatoon
395 Jesse Wallin 2000 2003 D 49 0 2 2 -5 34 1978-03-10 Saskatoon
396 Brayden Schenn 2010 2011 C 9 0 2 2 -2 0 1991-08-22 Saskatoon
397 Dave Parro 1981 1984 G 77 0 2 2 0 6 77 21 36 10 4.09 1957-04-30 Saskatoon
398 Michael Garnett 2006 2006 G 24 0 2 2 0 0 24 10 7 4 .885 3.45 1982-11-25 Saskatoon
399 Pete Leswick 1937 1945 W 3 1 0 1 0 1916-07-12 Saskatoon
400 Bert Gardiner 1936 1944 G 144 0 1 1 0 144 49 68 27 3.79 1913-03-25 Saskatoon
401 Kevin Doell 2008 2008 C 8 0 1 1 -2 4 1979-07-15 Saskatoon
402 Gord Williams 1982 1983 RW 2 0 0 0 0 2 1960-04-10 Saskatoon
403 Tyler Weiman 2008 2008 G 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.00 1984-06-05 Saskatoon
404 Randy Smith 1986 1987 C 3 0 0 0 -2 0 1965-07-07 Saskatoon
405 Scott Scissons 1991 1994 C 2 0 0 0 0 0 1971-10-29 Saskatoon
406 Jack Norris 1965 1971 G 58 0 0 0 0 0 58 20 25 4 3.89 1942-08-05 Saskatoon
407 Dieter Kochan 2000 2003 G 21 0 0 0 0 0 21 1 11 1 .862 3.96 1974-05-11 Saskatoon
408 Ryan Keller 2010 2010 C 6 0 0 0 -1 0 1984-01-06 Saskatoon
409 Chris Hajt 2001 2004 D 6 0 0 0 -1 2 1978-07-05 Saskatoon
410 Hec Fowler 1925 1925 G 7 0 0 0 0 7 1 6 0 6.16 1892-10-14 Saskatoon
411 Hugh Currie 1951 1951 D 1 0 0 0 0 1925-10-22 Saskatoon
412 Jared Cowen 2010 2010 D 1 0 0 0 0 2 1991-01-25 Saskatoon
413 Cam Brown 1991 1991 LW 1 0 0 0 0 7 1969-05-15 Saskatoon
414 Riley Armstrong 2009 2009 RW 2 0 0 0 -1 2 1984-11-08 Saskatoon
415 Mel Angelstad 2004 2004 LW 2 0 0 0 0 2 1972-10-31 Saskatoon
 
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Teus

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From the municipality of about 30,000 I'm from, only Kim Johnsson. Patrik Hersley (Kings/Flyers) was in the AHL, but never played in the NHL.
 

BubbaBoot

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Born: Somerville, MA
- Niko Dimitrakos
- Jack Hughes

Grew up: Newton, MA
- David Jensen
- Frenchy Lacroix
- Bob Taylor
- CJ Young

Current : Mission Hill, MA
- Don't know how many of the 27 Boston born players are from this neighborhood. There are others also listed from the Charlestown, Brighton and Dorchester neighborhoods, (probably the Catholic hospitals).
 

BamBamCam*

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Born: Somerville, MA
- Niko Dimitrakos
- Jack Hughes

Grew up: Newton, MA
- David Jensen
- Frenchy Lacroix
- Bob Taylor
- CJ Young

Current : Mission Hill, MA
- Don't know how many of the 27 Boston born players are from this neighborhood. There are others also listed from the Charlestown, Brighton and Dorchester neighborhoods, (probably the Catholic hospitals).

See there's where my one problem lies. For instance Jim Carey is labeled as a Dorchester born player but all that means is he was born at Carney Hospital. If you look at my birth certificate is says Dorchester also but I never lived a day in Dotty like Jim Carey. We were both Weymouth guys.
 

JaysCyYoung

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Newmarket, Ontario

*Francis Cain
*Herb Cain - NHL scoring champion and Second Team All-Star, 1944, Stanley Cup champion, 1935, 1941.
*Dit Clapper - NHL First Team All-Star, 1939, 1940, 1941, NHL Second Team All-Star, 1931, 1935, 1944, Stanley Cup champion, 1929, 1939, 1941, Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
*Steve Downie
*Brian Elliot
*Mike Kitchen
*Randy Legge
*Jamie Macoun, NHL All-Rookie Team, 1984, Stanley Cup champion, 1989.
*Geoff Sarjeant
*Shayne Stevenson
*Bill Thoms, NHL scoring champion and Second Team All-Star, 1936.
 

Jonathan17

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The ones who I've seen play:

Phil and Tony Esposito
Ron Francis
Marty Turco
Tyler Kennedy
Paul DiPietro
Matt D'Agostini
Ken Belanger

My dad liked watching Chico Maki when he was coming up. :)
 

dafoomie

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Boston
Surprisingly, my American town has quite a few players that have made the jumped to the NHL.

Bobby Allen
Jim Carey (moved to Weymouth as a youth, we used to tool him playing shinny)
Mark Holden
Gerry McDonald
Bobby Sheehan
Kurt Walker
Tim Sweeney (ex-teammate of mine in WYH)
Brian Noonan
Cleon Daskalakis (not sure if he was Weymouth or Hingham)

Not bad for a small American town.
Brian Noonan grew up in Southie.
 

Franck

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While no NHLer (or any person of any kind of impact in any field that I know of) has grown up in the town of about 5,000 inhabitants that I grew up in, Loui Eriksson and Viktor Stålberg are from the same municipality as me though, as are the Klingberg brothers.
 

BlueAndGold

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I've lived in Acton, MA for the past 18 years, so I consider it my hometown. Acton and neighboring Boxborough have a combined school system. So here's the rundown of NHLers who grew up in Acton, Boxborough and/or attended A-B high school. Acton and Boxborough have a combined population of about 26,000.

Tom Barrasso (Lived in Stow, MA, but graduated from A-B high and went straight to the NHL, winning the Calder and Vezina one year out of A-B.)
Jeff Norton
Bob Sweeney
Ian Moran
Bob Brooke
Brad Norton
Ted Crowley

And Hal Gill supposedly played in the Acton-Boxborough Youth Hockey organization in his early years, but his hometown is Bolton, MA.
 

TheStranger

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Ottawa, Ontario
I'm more from the country area south of Ottawa, I won't include Ottawa, but will include little towns within 30 mins or so of me.

Real Hometown: Williamsburg(Less than 1000 residents)
0! Only listed player on HockeyDB is
Warren Steele 7 games with Kingston Frontenacs this season.

Morrisburg
Mike Casselman - 3 Games with Panthers in 96-96

Winchester
Matt Carkner D 1980 Winchester, ONT 1997-2010 Major League
John Carter L 1963 Winchester, MA 1982-1995 Major League
Ken McRae R 1968 Winchester, ONT 1985-1998 Major League
Jay Pandolfo L 1974 Winchester, MA 1992-2010 Major League
Mike Pandolfo L 1979 Winchester, MA 1998-2008 Major League
Larry Robinson D 1951 Winchester, ONT 1970-1992 Major League
Moe Robinson D 2957 Winchester, ONT 1974-1981 Major League
Cliff Thompson D 1919 Winchester, MA 1940-1950 Major League
Brian White D 1976 Winchester, MA 1994-2008 Major League
(My mother went to school with the Robinson brothers, and family is friends with Carkners, had Matt Carkner's grandma for a sub teacher a couple times)

Long Sault
Jesse Winchester

Cornwall
Billy Carter C 1937 Cornwall, ONT 1956-1969 Major League
Bob Charlebois L 1944 Cornwall, ONT 1961-1976 Major League
Alain Chevrier G 1961 Cornwall, ONT 1978-1991 Major League
Carson Cooper R 1899 Cornwall, ONT 1924-1935 Major League
Corrie D'Alessio G 1969 Cornwall, ONT 1985-1994 Major League
Corbett Denneny C 1896 Cornwall, ONT 1917-1931 Major League
Tony Joseph R 1969 Cornwall, ONT 1985-1994 Major League
Chad Kilger C 1976 Cornwall, ONT 1993-2008 Major League
Blair MacDonald R 1953 Cornwall, ONT 1970-1986 Major League
John Markell R 1956 Cornwall, ONT 1973-1992 Major League
Jean Payette C 1946 Cornwall, ONT 1965-1975 Major League
Scott Pearson L 1969 Cornwall, ONT 1985-2007 Major League
Steve Poapst D 1969 Cornwall, ONT 1985-2006 Major League
Bruce Racine G 1966 Cornwall, ONT 1984-2003 Major League
Steve Seguin R 1964 Cornwall, ONT 1980-1988 Major League
Orval Tessier C 1933 Cornwall, ONT 1951-1965 Major League
Ron Ward D 1944 Cornwall, ONT 1965-1977 Major League
John Wensink L 1953 Cornwall, ONT 1970-1983 Major League
Rod Willard F 1961 Cornwall, ONT 1977-1985 Major League

Osgoode
Tood Flichel

Brockville
Jim Adair C 1948 Brockville, ONT 1966-1976 Major League
Brian Chapman D 1968 Brockville, ONT 1985-2005 Major League
Herb Foster L 1913 Brockville, ONT 1932-1950 Major League
Todd Gill D 1965 Brockville, ONT 1982-2004 Major League
Randy Ladouceur D 1960 Brockville, ONT 1977-1996 Major League
Hank Lammens D 1966 Brockville, ONT 1984-1994 Major League
Alyn McCauley C 1977 Brockville, ONT 1993-2007 Major League
Mike McMahon D 1917 Brockville, ONT 1942-1949 Major League
Noel Price D 1935 Brockville, ONT 1952-1976 Major League
Thain Simon D 1922 Brockville, ONT 1946-1949 Major League

Chesterville
John Sorrell

Cardinal
Rusty Crawford

Alright that's enough of that :laugh:, sorry lots of little towns around here. None of them have more than a couple thousand people in them though, all in one county though.
 

nhr57

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Dick Tärnström and Mikael Tellqvist are the only once from where I am from, swedens smallest municipality, so I guess it's OK (Y)
 

David Suzuki

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Moncton.... uhhh :/

Should maybe get some in the future now that we've had a Q team for 15 years, so kids who grew up watching them are now NHL-Age (say they were 5 back then they're 20 now etc...).
 

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