Players with nationalities you didnt expect based on their name

[Captain97]

Any player born in NA really shouldn't be on this list considering we as societies are formed from countries all around the world.

 

[MuckOG]

I keep forgetting Mats Zuccarello is Norwegian.

 

[rocketdan9]

Thought Rangers' Lindgren was Swedish

He probably is part if he did 23andme

 

[GreeningOil]

Kailer Yamamoto is from the USA.

Slater Koekekekekekekek (Koekkoek)is from Canada

 

[Mr Misunderstood]

Vincent Trocheck - USA

Mikhail Grabovski - Germany

 

[Albatros]

Mikhail Grabovski - Germany

Grabovski is less German than Bruce Willis, just happened to be born in Potsdam by coincidence.

 

[notDatsyuk]

Any player born in NA really shouldn't be on this list considering we as societies are formed from countries all around the world.

Jordin Tootoo is Canadian. Everyone else is an immigrant.

 

[MartinS82]

Douglas Murray from Sweden.

Guy Hebert (USA). I understand that NA is a melting pot...but it was the pronunciation of the name that threw me off.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Nybeck is for sure a swedish surname, Zion is pretty special though.

Yeah true, I guess I was more surprised to find out he's white

 

[Shocker]

Jordan Tootoo is Canadian. Everyone else is an immigrant.

Jordin.

 

[Zenos]

Kailer Yamamoto is from the USA.

Slater Koekekekekekekek (Koekkoek)is from Canada

Was anybody actually surprised by those two though? Kailer and Slater are extremely North-American sounding names and neither Japan nor the Netherlands are exactly renowned hockey nations.

 

[Captain97]

Jordin Tootoo is Canadian. Everyone else is an immigrant.

Carey Price is Indigenous as well actually,

Also as an Indigenous person whose had these conversations to many times let's end this topic here please.

 

[CSKA1974]

Canada is still a new country so I expect to see a bunch of new names coming from hockey players as people continue to move here. Same with hockey players who move from North America like Paul Stastny holding three passports as he comes from a Slovakian background, born in Canada and plays for Team USA.

Sasha Barkov comes off as Russian but is Finnish.

Another is Brandon Saad sounding Syrian.

So is Leo Komarov

 

[Czechboy]

Owen Nolan was born in Ireland I think...

Dimitr Jaskin is Czech...

Jan Rutta is Czech but there are several Rutta's who are Finish...

Jake Pivonka and the Hejduk twins are US...

 

[Future GOAT]

Yeah true, I guess I was more surprised to find out he's white

Shouldn't be a surprise since Zion is a Jewish name and most modern day Jewish people are white/of European descent, rather than Semitic. It would be a surprise if someone who was not Jewish had that name since it wouldn't make much sense.

 

[JoeCool16]

Many years ago, in the before time, he was known as Mats Zuccarello Aasen. That's when I first heard of him; I think it was on the prospects board. He became Zuccarello a bit before he was drafted.

I seem to remember first seeing him in international play and thinking "Oh, that one little guy with the gigantic stick's actually pretty good. I wonder how he'd do in the NHL".

Jordin Tootoo is Canadian. Everyone else is an immigrant.

Poor Ethan Bear

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

Douglas Murray from Sweden.

Guy Hebert (USA). I understand that NA is a melting pot...but it was the pronunciation of the name that threw me off.

IIRC Hebert is from a town where NY/VT/Quebec all meet. Town is technically in NY State.
He might be of French Canadian ancestry but his family became Americans when they drew the borders after the War of 1812.

There are literal towns that are half in Canada and half in the US in that area.

Like the NW angle in MN can only be reached by land through Canada because they didn't know what Lake of the Woods actually looked like in the 1780s.

 

[agent082]

I thought Leo Komarov is russian lion.

 

[Albatros]

Jan Rutta is Czech but there are several Rutta's who are Finish...

You might want to czech your spelling.

 

[agent082]

He was an AHL player but thought Michael Schumacher is from Germany

 

[MartinS82]

IIRC Hebert is from a town where NY/VT/Quebec all meet. Town is technically in NY State.
He might be of French Canadian ancestry but his family became Americans when they drew the borders after the War of 1812.

There are literal towns that are half in Canada and half in the US in that area.

Like the NW angle in MN can only be reached by land through Canada because they didn't know what Lake of the Woods actually looked like in the 1780s.

Thank you...gives me some context. And here I am a History major!

 

[CSKA1974]

I thought Leo Komarov is russian lion.

He is not, although he was born in the USSR.

 

[sdf]

I thought Leo Komarov is russian lion.

Actually if his name translate, then it would be like "son of moskito"

 

[sufferer]

Jordin Tootoo is Canadian. Everyone else is an immigrant.

No, the immigrants created the country.

 

[CSKA1974]

Actually if his name translate, then it is sound like "son of moskito"

He has a huge heart
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