NHL players with the worst English

[MMC]

Which NHL players don't know English or can't speak it well at all?

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[These Are The Days]

Look mom! Another Puljujarvi thread!


Edit: naw but seriously

 

[Hint1k]

Malkin?

 

[CapnZin]

Sam Morin. He can speak it, hard to understand, but it sounds awful.

 

[OKOptimistic]

Phil Kessel

 

[Plural]

Pulju's english was weirdly bad, considering how well Swedish/Finnish youngsters usually speak english.

 

[boredmale]

John Tavares

 

[thegoldenyear]

John Tavares

I love our HFNYI board.

 

[artemponomarev]

Pavel Datsyuk didn’t speak well, though that didn’t stop him from being magician on ice
Still always smile when watching his face during this interview 1:25

 

[Section88]

Panarin

 

[ItWasJustified]

I'm actually surprise at how good Tarasenko's English is. If I remember correctly, he had a translator during his first press conference in the NHL.

 

[Kcb12345]

Nichushkin

 

[yogintheaveragebears]

Pavel Datsyuk didn’t speak well, though that didn’t stop him from being magician on ice
Still always smile when watching his face during this interview 1:25

Didn’t he say if he knew he’d be in the league that long he would have taken English more seriously?

 

[Herbert Lewis]

Vasilevskiy has some pretty bad English, while Kuch has it down. Vasy was interviewed tonight about being the Bolts shut out leader. He was battling to say the least.

 

[Kevs Security]

Some of the french-canadien guys... Freddie Gauthier comes to mind.

 

[These Are The Days]

Vasilevskiy has some pretty bad English, while Kuch has it down. Vasy was interviewed tonight about being the Bolts shut out leader. He was battling to say the least.

Ehh some guys just never get the rust off. If you can say "I may as well be a Barista" when describing how much coffee you drink you're pretty darn good. To his credit Sergachev speaks some of the best English I've ever heard out of a Russian player

 

[sr edler]

Russians shouldn't count because of context but I was always a bit surprised how Valeri Bure spoke/speak so much better English than his older brother.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

To his credit Sergachev speaks some of the best English I've ever heard out of a Russian player

Have you ever heard Namestnikov speak English? You probably have, given he played for your team for many years.

His accent sounds half NA/half Russian. He speaks terrific English.

 

[Eye of Ra]

kronwall

 

[MrThomas]

Pool party & Pizza.

 

[These Are The Days]

Have you ever heard Namestnikov speak English? You probably have, given he played for your team for many years.

His accent sounds half NA/half Russian. He speaks terrific English.

Yes he is exceptional as well. I have kinda come to expect that because he had gone back and forth between Russia and the US whereas Sergachev I think had lived his whole life in Russia until the OHL import draft

 

[flames96]

Why is Malkin so bad? Which foreign languages do the teach in Russian schools?. French and Germans are awful as well at English, don't they teach other languages in school. Guess dubbing TV and movies does not help either

 

[MrThomas]

Why is Malkin so bad? Which foreign languages do the teach in Russian schools?. French and Germans are awful as well at English, don't they teach other languages in school. Guess dubbing TV and movies does not help either

In Europe they don't teach english that much in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain etc. Only in Nordic Countries and Netherlands they speak it good.

 

[PatrikBerglund]

Pulju's english was weirdly bad, considering how well Swedish/Finnish youngsters usually speak english.

Swedes speak considerably better English than Finns.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Not a player, but Bob Hartley has the Frenchiest accent I've ever heard from an Ontarian guy with an Anglo name.