I find it weird how the interviewers asked about him being born in Sweden. his parents were Finnish immigrants just like mine and so many others after the wars and then they moved back to Finland.
I dont blame them for their curiosity but they put it in a misleading way
Yeah, that gets highlighted A LOT, out of no reason whatsoever. I do get it that when information is scarce, a story must be made out of something, but when it goes to interviewers asking questions about what language they speak at home or a screen with a huge yellow banner notifying how Puljujärvi was born in Sweden (or someone stopping their sentence just to say "Puljujarvi, born in Sweden, is a...", it gets a tad irritating for us Finns.
One factor could be the unlucky occurrence of a similar Finnish name, Pääjärvi, on a Swedish player (this has also birthed the annoying phenomenon of people bringing up Magnus Pääjärvi in Jesse Puljujärvi discussions, although the only things in common are that they're both forwards). In the mind of a North American hockey fan or a media reporter, last names ending in -järvi ("lake" in Finnish) seem like a Swedish thing because that 75% Swedish guy was in the NHL first.
I'd be OK with it if Jesse was genetically or even culturally a Swede, but as he is neither, it's a non-story. However, people's need to make a story out of this will just haunt and irritate us forever, as Pulju himself will struggle to communicate "my parents are Finns who just happened to live and work in Sweden at the time" in clear English.