Which players are playing for their home town teams?

[treple13]

Dillon Dube was born in Golden but his hometown was Cochrane which is about a half hour out of Calgary. Think he's the only one unless Matthew Phillips or Luke Philp(Canmore) make the roster(very unlikely).

Cochrane is definitely Flames territory. I'd be interested to know on Golden. Probably pretty evenly split between Flames/Canucks?

If we wanted to play the "closest team to" card, Derek Ryan is on the closest team to Spokane (for this season only).

 

[Jack Be Quick]

It’s always seemed curious to me how so few players are from the NYC area. Even though it’s not a “hockey town” they do have three teams and sheer population size would seem to dictate that it should be well represented.

How many players are from NYC proper? Nick Fotiu, Matthieu Schneider, and....?

The problem is NYC has not even a handful of rinks and good luck getting consistent time at the few that do exist. That's ~9 million people who have minimal to no access to even learn how to skate.

NJ has well more per capita and has produced a fair amount of solid players considering the region. It's the same case upstate.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Gta is not Toronto lol.

What about Toffoli, the Subbans, Simmonds, Akil Thomas, Liam Foudy?

 

[Panda Bear]

Gta is not Toronto lol.

the only people who would nitpick about that are people from the gta.

they're all Toronto to everybody else.

 

[Panda Bear]

The problem is NYC has not even a handful of rinks and good luck getting consistent time at the few that do exist. That's ~9 million people who have minimal to no access to even learn how to skate.

NJ has well more per capita and has produced a fair amount of solid players considering the region. It's the same case upstate.

oh yeah? then why do I see so many New Yorkers skating during Christmas in the movies?

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

What about Toffoli, the Subbans, Simmonds, Akil Thomas, Liam Foudy?

Are they

the only people who would nitpick about that are people from the gta.

they're all Toronto to everybody else.

As a torontonian trust me we do.not consider them as one of us

 

[Panda Bear]

Are they

As a torontonian trust me we do.not consider them as one of us

shame that we consider them as one of you
;(

 

[Tawnos]

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.

No freakin way. There are practically no Islanders fans in NJ and practically no Devils fans on Long Island. And there are practically none of either in the Hudson Valley or southwestern CT.

There are plenty of Rangers fans across the entirety of the metro area, though.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

oh yeah? then why do I see so many New Yorkers skating during Christmas in the movies?

Lol. We have maybe 6 or so outdoor rinks in the winter for tourists and parents to hold their kids hands by.

We're lucky if those are open for 90 days and hockey is rarely played on them.

 

[PullHard]

shame that we consider them as one of you
;(

It is hilarious that you have some teams like any of the Canadian teams further west than the Leafs and players from like an hour+ outside of Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, etc. are all considered to be generally "local" players, even though you look at a map and the town is noticeably distant from the cities that have NHL teams

But if you get ~15-30 minute drive outside of Toronto proper (only that long because of traffic), these guys are not hometown players!!!!!

 

[Jack Be Quick]

No freakin way. There are practically no Islanders fans in NJ and practically no Devils fans on Long Island. And there are practically none of either in the Hudson Valley or southwestern CT.

There are plenty of Rangers fans across the entirety of the metro area, though.

This is unfortunately true.

But there are Devils fans upstate as that's where their AHL team (Albany and Binghamton) has been for a while.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Taylor Hall and Jeff Skinner for the Sabres.

Umm... did you read what the question was asking?

Erik Gubranson for Ottawa btw.

 

[holy]

Habs star goalie Carey Prix grew up in Montreal, I do believe.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Tavares is not from toronto

I was born in Mississauga like Tavares.

Toronto is our hometown.

It's a short drive to Toronto, so this is just technical mumbo-jumbo that holds no weight in reality. Anyone in the GTA can easily claim Toronto as their hometown team.

 

[Langdon Alger]

I was born in Mississauga like Tavares.

Toronto is our hometown.

It's a short drive to Toronto, so this is just technical mumbo-jumbo that holds no weight in reality. Anyone in the GTA can easily claim Toronto as their hometown team.

Yeah, Tavares is from Toronto. Thornton is not.

 

[BurgoShark]

Matthew Peca in Ottawa (in addition to Gudbranson as pointed out earlier)

There was some argument about Pageau in Ottawa. Some people considered him not to be a “home town” player since he was from Gatineau.

I tend to think “closest NHL team to where you grew up” should be enough, but I can see how people might think otherwise. IMO players like Pageau, Peca, Borowiecki and Brad Smyth should count as hometown guys just as much as Methot, Richardson and Ceci did.

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

I was born in Mississauga like Tavares.

Toronto is our hometown.

It's a short drive to Toronto, so this is just technical mumbo-jumbo that holds no weight in reality. Anyone in the GTA can easily claim Toronto as their hometown team.

Lol you are Def not from toronto as sauga is a separate city and that short drive of yours Is 45 min

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Yeah, Tavares is from Toronto. Thornton is not.

Sauga is not Toronto

 

[Machinehead]

My rule is very simple: if you can't take the subway there, it ain't New York City. Yes, I'm looking at you Staten Island!

But Adam Fox and Anthony Bitetto were Rangers fans.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Lol you are Def not from toronto as sauga is a separate city and that short drive of yours Is 45 min

First of all, it's not 45 minutes lol.

30 minutes from Mississauga and even less to the actual border of Toronto. I do it all the time. Maybe with work-related traffic but that has no meaning in this discussion.

Let's assume Tavares was coming home.

Was he supposed to sign with the Mississauga Steelheads?

I'm absolutely shocked anyone would make this point. First time I've heard it. It's usually a topic with cities/towns closer to Windsor due to Detroit.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Sauga is not Toronto

It’s the GTA man.

 

[Cowumbus]

Kole Sherwood is from the Dublin/Powell area I believe. Which is considered Columbus. Probably a 15 minute drive to Nationwide Arena.

 

[HolyCrap]

It is hilarious that you have some teams like any of the Canadian teams further west than the Leafs and players from like an hour+ outside of Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, etc. are all considered to be generally "local" players, even though you look at a map and the town is noticeably distant from the cities that have NHL teams

But if you get ~15-30 minute drive outside of Toronto proper (only that long because of traffic), these guys are not hometown players!!!!!

Lol.

 

[HolyCrap]

I was born in Mississauga like Tavares.

Toronto is our hometown.

It's a short drive to Toronto, so this is just technical mumbo-jumbo that holds no weight in reality. Anyone in the GTA can easily claim Toronto as their hometown team.

Exactly. But but it’s the mainboards where stupidity trumps reality.

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

It’s the GTA man.

That's cool. It is not Toronto lol.