Players with nationalities you didnt expect based on their name

[amnesiac]

Like just now I learned TBL 3rd string goalie Christopher Gibson... Finnish!

also wasnt aware Alex Nedelkjovic.... American!

2022 Top prospect, Brad Lambert..... Finnish!

we all know Galchenyuk, Oduya, and Barkov.

others?

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[not a troll]

Burakovsky

 

[PRicci09]

Andre Burakovsky

 

[Pyrophorus]

Took me a while to find out Rittich was Czech.

 

[Pyrophorus]

WNylander-Canadian

 

[OKR]

Jacob De La Rose was one for sure.

 

[Bubbles]

Robyn Regehr was the best Brazilian hockey player ever.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Zion Nybeck

 

[BrockLobster]

Mat zuccarello

 

[Bruce Granville]

Virtanen, Zuccarello, Zibanejad

 

[JT Kreider]

I was for sure Pastrnak was Swedish, you'd also think Slater Koko (not even going to try the correct spelling) was from somewhere in Scandinavia, not Canadian.

I also at first thought Braden Holtby was German for some reason

 

[Bruce Granville]

I was for sure Pastrnak was Swedish, you'd also think Slater Koko (not even going to try the correct spelling) was from somewhere in Scandinavia, not Canadian.

Because a czech name couldn‘t be a czech?

Okay, Sweden is always a good guess.

Henrik Karlsson, Kazakhstan

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

There are so many Euros in the league now I automatically assume a weird last name is European only to find later out they're Canadian or American. E.g., Scheifele, Guentzel, Boeser, Ekblad, Slavin (and many more).

 

[Mountlaine]

Thought Rangers' Lindgren was Swedish

 

[Nolan Bombgardener]

Cristobal Huet surprised me when I was younger; assumed he was Canadian-French, not France French.

 

[24 others]

I never understood how is Niskanen not a Finn.

Ekblad I routinely think of as a Swede.

 

[JoVel]

Most of these guys probably just have a parent with a different nationality than the one they represent. It's not that Gibson is a Finnish name or Virtanen Canadian.

 

[Summer Rose]

Brady Skjei. That’s an S, a K, and a J all right next to each other, so that’s a nope.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Robyn Regehr was the best Brazilian hockey player ever.

Ryan O'Marra the best Japanese player?

 

[Pyrophorus]

I never understood how is Niskanen not a Finn.

Ekblad I routinely think of as a Swede.

Maybe they were/are-decades back.

 

[Bubbles]

Craig Adams was also born in Brunei.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Because a czech name couldn‘t be a czech?

Okay, Sweden is always a good guess.

Henrik Karlsson, Kazakhstan

Pasta played in Sweden, with his best friend Nylander
Same with Ukrainian Dmytro Timashov

 

[CrosbyStaalsAndNash]

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.

 

[TomppaKoo]

The first time I heard these names I would not locate them in Canada based on their names:

Nazem Kadri - Sounds Arabic to me
Milan Lucic - Czech would be my first guess
P.K. Subban - Intuitively I would locate this person to Sweden, for some reason.

 

[WolfgangPuck]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic didn’t expect , best Swedish player