Which players are playing for their home town teams?

[ziggyjoe212]

As the title states, which players are currently playing for their hometown teams?

The Pens don't currently have anyone from Pittsburgh, but Sam Lafferty is from central PA which is generally considered part of the Penguins' territory.

I'm sure the Leafs have several.

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[Filthy Dangles]

Johnny Tavares
Mitchell Marner
Joe Thornton
Charlie Coyle
Matt Grzelcyk
Zach Parise
Ryan Suter
Jonathan Drouin
Adam Fox (from Nassau County, Long Island but still Rangers country)
Dylan Larkin
Danny DeKeyser
Luke Glendenning
Cody Eakin

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

for the Bruins:

Grzelcyk (Charlestown): been highlighted many times that his dad works the bullgang at The Garden
Wagner (Walpole)
Coyle (Weymouth)

 

[Franck]

On the Habs Jonathan Drouin is currently the only player from Montreal.

 

[WestCoastFinnie]

Troy Steche.... oh wait.

 

[M2Beezy]

Virtanen
Benn (Victoria)

 

[HBK27]

Kyle Palmieri grew up in Montvale, NJ - about 45 minutes from The Rock.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Thornton count now? Or too far outside Toronto where he grew up?

 

[HotDish]

I'll do Minnesota:

NHL:
Bjugstad
Parise
Stalock

In the system:
Menell
Swaney
Hentges.

These are all players from the State. If you include Wisconsin/ND since I guess the Wild could at least claim the Dakotas as their fandom and the Hockey part of Wisconsin is normally towards the Minnesota side of the state. the number goes up by 2(?)

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Johnny Tavares
Mitchell Marner
Joe Thornton
Charlie Coyle
Matt Grzelcyk
Zach Parise
Ryan Suter
Jonathan Drouin
Adam Fox (from Nassau County, Long Island but still Rangers country)
Dylan Larkin
Danny DeKeyser
Luke Glendenning
Cody Eakin

Joe Thornton is from St Thomas, outside of London. Close-ish to Toronto but still a 2 hour drive.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Off topic. But there seems to be no current NHL players with a New York accent. Not even Fox who is from Nassau County.

And New York accent means NYC area (Five Boroughs). Not Western NY.

 

[ohheyhemsky]

Tyler Ennis, and kind of Kris Russell? Red Deer, 1.5 hours away.

 

[Allan92]

Johnny Tavares
Mitchell Marner
Joe Thornton
Charlie Coyle
Matt Grzelcyk
Zach Parise
Ryan Suter
Jonathan Drouin
Adam Fox (from Nassau County, Long Island but still Rangers country)
Dylan Larkin
Danny DeKeyser
Luke Glendenning
Cody Eakin

I'm not from there so I don't know for sure but I assumed Nassau would be Islanders territory considering their arena was called Nassau Coliseum?

Or was that just a name?

 

[Rebels57]

Joel Farabee was born in Syracuse, NY but his Dad is actually from the Greater Philadelphia area and the family are all Eagles fans. Close enough.

 

[ziggyjoe212]

Mike Green is kind of playing for his hometown team. The beauty grew up in Calgary.

I thought he retired? And wasn't he playing for Detroit?

 

[ziggyjoe212]

I'm not from there so I don't know for sure but I assumed Nassau would be Islanders territory considering their arena was called Nassau Coliseum?

Or was that just a name?

Considering that Long Island is part of the NYC suburbs, I would consider Fox to be a home town kid for all 3 NYC NHL teams.

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

I'm not from there so I don't know for sure but I assumed Nassau would be Islanders territory considering their arena was called Nassau Coliseum?

Or was that just a name?

I mean pretty much any of the NYC, Long Island and North NJ area can be considered home turf for all three of the tristate teams.

There's too much of an overlap of fans of all three in these areas it's hard to claim one area specifically for just one team.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Thornton count now? Or too far outside Toronto where he grew up?

Still Leaf territory.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

I'm not from there so I don't know for sure but I assumed Nassau would be Islanders territory considering their arena was called Nassau Coliseum?

Or was that just a name?

Islanders literally play(ed) there but there's tons of Ranger fans there, probably close to 50/50 split

 

[Rongomania]

I'm not from there so I don't know for sure but I assumed Nassau would be Islanders territory considering their arena was called Nassau Coliseum?

Or was that just a name?

I grew up near here (Coliseum) certainly islanders and jets country in the 90's when I grew up. Me and pops were the very few ranger fans around that I knew of where I was on the south shore. Fun times!

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Off topic. But there seems to be no current NHL players with a New York accent. Not even Fox who is from Nassau County.

And New York accent means NYC area (Five Boroughs). Not Western NY.

Anthony Bitetto sort of has one if you listen to his interviews, he's from Long Beach in Nassau.

Tony DeAngelo from South Jersey talks like one sometimes as well.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Anthony Bitetto sort of has one if you listen to his interviews, he's from Long Beach in Nassau.

Tony DeAngelo from South Jersey talks like one sometimes as well.

Isn't South Jersey more of a Philly accent?

Idk. I get the accents all confused. Lol.

You are spot on about Bitetto

 

[Voight]

On the Habs Jonathan Drouin is currently the only player from Montreal.

Theres a reason for that.

 

[Rob Brown]

Leafs from the GTA:
- Tavares
- Marner
- Hyman
- Dermott
- Simmonds
- Spezza

Leafs from Southern Ontario:
- Muzzin
- Brodie
- Thornton

 

[TOGuy14]

As the title states, which players are currently playing for their hometown teams?

The Pens don't currently have anyone from Pittsburgh, but Sam Lafferty is from central PA which is generally considered part of the Penguins' territory.

I'm sure the Leafs have several.

Are we saying it has to be Toronto proper or the Toronto area?

On the Leafs -

Tavares
Dermott
Hyman
Marner
Simmonds
Spezza

After that you have Thornton, Muzzin and Brodie who are from southern Ontario, but not direct Toronto area.