Reindl87
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It is a pretty Common Czech Name, though.Took me a while to find out Rittich was Czech.
It is a pretty Common Czech Name, though.Took me a while to find out Rittich was Czech.
Again pretty standard Czech name, though. Many people in the Czech Republique still have German surnames for historic reasons. Including many hockey payers. Lang, Reichel, Kraft, Hertel. . . Others have originally German names that got "chechnozised" at some time in their family history . Jagr beging the most prominent one. (originally "Jäger" = hunter).Robert Lang never stood out as a czech name. Especially since there's a ton of lang that are french canadian
Many people in the Czech Republique still have German surnames for historic reasons. Including many hockey payers. Lang, Reichel, Kraft, Hertel. . . Others have originally German names that got "chechnozised" at some time in their family history . Jagr beging the most prominent one. (originally "Jäger" = hunter).
Well Mike Bossy IS French Canadian.
The difference is easy to c.This comment is more applicable 10 years ago but Nicklas Backstrom (Center) is Swedish, but Niklas Backstrom (goalie) is Finnish.
Nope, he's not. He was just born in Montreal. His mother is English and his father is Ukrainian. His last name is transformed to Bossy and originally it was Босий meaning Barefoot in Ukrainian. I didn't know myself but it's a pretty known fact and Bossy himself admitted his Ukrainian heritage.
When I got into the NHL in 92/93, I genuinely thought he was swedish (I'm swedish), learned pretty quickly that he wasn't. I think his grandparents are though.
So he has half Ukrainian heritage.
Kind of on topic, one of the thing I enjoy is watching people who put a lot of pride into what they think they are get shocked when they get DNA results and, more often than not, find out it’s much different than what they were expecting.
Teddy Blueger is Latvian. But his real name is apparently Teodors Blugers so that would've been easier to guess.
btw, for Eastern Europe that DNA sample service is just a waste of time and money. My mom did it recently and the result is... your DNA is from Eastern Europe and Russia. No shit Sherlock, we already knew. It does not even differentiate between ethnicities, you can be Polish, Romanian or Hungarian (and these are 3 completely separate ethnicities) and it defines you as Eastern Europe and Russia
Because a czech name couldn‘t be a czech?
Okay, Sweden is always a good guess.
Henrik Karlsson, Kazakhstan
Eric Lindros comes across very Swedish.
No, she is not.
Johnny Oduya - nothing about that sounds Swedish to me as a Canadian.
Also, I thought Roberto Luongo and Milan Lucic were Italian for the longest time.