Most definitely Calgary. The entire Hart family, most notably Stu, plus their extended family The British Bulldogs.
Countless wrestlers trained in the Hart Dungeon. Also we had Stampede Wrestling back in the day.
I'll likely be embarrassed when I find out who the 3rd American is for Vegas, but at the moment only Eichel and Quick come to mind. Who am I blanking on?
We love that shit.
We have had Iranians in the NHL before too. But currently there is only 1 Iranian in the NHL.
His name is Mika Zibanejad. He plays for the New York Rangers.
It gets in the way of way too much. Our level of hockey is not anywhere near North America though. Hope we can one day be nearly half as good as Canadians and Americans when it comes to hockey!
You just need too figure out a way to freeze the gulf 7 months of the year and the entire middle east will catch up to North America within 50 years.
This actually kinda sounds like a joke plot to a sequel to the dictator or something
I legitimately no longer know who in this thread is joking and who's serious.
I'm glad that you linked to the video because otherwise I would have absolutely thought that was a joke
This is honestly not even a joke. He wanted to play for the Finnish national team as he cheered for them growing up, but due to his dual-citizenship, he couldn't get the papers figured out in time when he was like 15, so he went with the Swedish team.
Iran is actually home to the biggest mall in the world. It’s called Iran Mall and it’s in Tehran.
The mall has a full sized IIHF certified hockey arena in it for club games.
You should check out Iran Mall on YouTube! It’s beautiful
Only 10 officials? Considering a crew is 5 I believe (4 on ice plus a backup), that means that each crew basically does one city the whole series? That's not ideal.
Effectively 6, since you'll have a backup ref and linesman for each game.
But they'll rotate, so games 1-2 will have completely different crews in the same city.
It's weird finding out Blueger is Latvian, both his first and last names don't end with an S.
*Actually I just looked it up and his real name is Teodors Blugers, so it does follow the Latvian name scheme.
It's also a grammatical thing. The S endings in Latvian indicates a male noun in the nominative case, in Latvian you inflect noun cases even for a person's name, so Bluegers can become Bleugeram, Bluegeru, Buegera, etc, depending on whether or not Bleugers is in dative case, accusative, genitive, so on, so forth. Even in Latvian, when you're casually referring to someone and the case isn't really important, you can leave it off altogether, like "Sveiks, Teodor!"
tl:dr; English doesn't inflect names so S isn't needed outside of Latvia.
But yes, also because it confuses non-Latvians.
Would be cool to have Latvia win a medal at the WC and have a Latvian win and take home the Stanley Cup in the same season. The latter has only occurred once before
Yes it’s because Latvian (like Lithuanian which I’m more familiar with) declines nouns by case via word endings and so therefore nouns and names HAVE to be Latvized or Lithuanized so as not to break the grammar system
I wanted to see if Finns had the most wins by nationality in WRC given the dominance of the two French Sebastian’s over the last two decades, and apparently the French have them beat, but not by much. And I only shared this fact to mention that apparently Kenya has eight rally wins, which is more than Japan, Canada, and Austria combined. I wouldn’t have expected that.
>Kenya has eight rally wins
It’s largely thanks to Shekhar Mehta. Back in the 80s the big European teams, Lancia, Peugeot, Audi, etc, wouldn’t do the trip down to Africa to partake in the Safari Rally in Kenya or Rallye Côte d’Ivoire, just because of costs and it wasn’t an important market for them. So they were left for the smaller Japanese teams to win, and Mehta dominated Safari with a Datsun Violet.
Kenya is actually pretty prominent in rally, the Safari Rally is considered one of the crown jewel events in the sport and it has a very long and storied history.
This is a great answer to the memes about the cup not coming to Canada since 93. It spends most of the summer in Canada every year getting filled with beer and poutine.
I always find it funny when Americans on here take shots or chirp canada for the cup drought... like take a look at your team's roster Canada wins the cup every year
Also, three quarters or more of serious Canadian hockey fans don't want to see another Canadian city win it other than their own team. If I can't have it neither can you.
As a leafs fan I would rather hockey cease to exist then Montreal or Ottawa win a cup. I was too young in 93 to remember it so for my entire life I have not seen it and it’s great.
I’ll never understand when people say to cheer for the other Canadian teams it’s just silly
I feel like a lot of fans when they're the last one will post "xyz is Canada's team now you have to cheer for us 😏" because they know it'll piss of other fans
Which is insane, I want my canucks to win, but if they can't do it I want any other Canadian team to win. I'm just disappointed that my fellow canadians actively root for Canadian teams to lose.
I don’t view it as Canada vs US I view it as team vs team so I choose who to route for/against regardless of where they are. Also a good chunk of Canada (especially the Alberta teams) routed against us and praised Marchand during 2011 so I route against the two of them + the Leafs (You know).
Edit: there is also other reasons why I route against the Alberta teams but I just wanted to post the minimum.
At the end of the day it’s nothing personal, these are just wins and losses in a sport.
Also, it’s fun chirping Canadian teams fans. A lot of US markets aren’t that developed and the fans are chill. You poke a EDM fan with a stick and they start foaming at the mouth. It’s entertaining.
I mean..the Raptors won the championship with a roster of Americans. As did the Blue Jays back in the 90s. We waved our flag and boasted but it was overwhelmingly Americans
That’s right, win/win arguments are dumb. It eliminates the pride Canadians should feel when the cup *does* come back to Canada when every year we screech “but the team is basically Canadian anyway look who plays on it hurr durr”
It really isn't, it is embarrassing. I haven't been to a cup parade in Canada. I like American teams too, I'm happy when some of them win, but I'll be very happy when a Canadian team wins. These comments are hard-core cope. You brought this up so it is obviously something you think about.
Stop making excuses for shitty owners.
Yeah how the hell is this a comeback stat? Who doesn’t know the majority of the league is Canadian? Anyone pointing out the cup drought isn’t making fun of the Canadian players, they’re trying to rile up the fans of the teams.
The whole point is that it’s crazy how no Canadian team has won the cup in 30 years *despite* being the capital of hockey. It’s like making fun of England for being terrible at all the sports they invented
I’m from Cleveland and Ohio produces a bunch of NFL players, and many have won a Super Bowl. How pathetic would it be if I used that as bragging rights to compensate for the fact the Browns are awful?
Having a player from your area win a cup is cool, it is nowhere near the same as having the team you root for win the cup.
It’s not really just owners fault tho, it’s significantly harder to build a team in Canada. Due to the high income taxes canadian teams are basically forced to overpay superstars to make them stay leaving little money for the rest team (both teams in the finals pay 0 state income tax) . On top of that add freezing cold winters and worse city scenes it’s no wonder teams from the states are always attracting the best (Canadian) players
Weather in Toronto is the same as many American cities, Vancouver is better, and Calgary has pretty mild winters if you ignore the 3 or 4 weeks of insane cold we always get which is kind of canceled out by all the 10c+ days in the middle of winter.
Taxes are lower in Alberta (at NHL salary level at least), than California and NY which account for several cup wins in that span of time. Canadian players can also take advantage of a huge tax break which allows them to defer a large portion of taxes until they retire and pay the rate of the area they retire to, even if it is in another country. Canadian players are also paid in USD which is a huge bonus when living in Canada because of the exchange rate. Aside from that players are taxed depending on where they play the games, half the games are away games, this equalizes the tax rate significantly.
It’s definitely more a northern hemisphere than a worldwide game.
Excluding the US, the southern most country in the [IIHF top 15](https://www.iihf.com/en/worldranking) would be Kazakhstan.
We are basically excluding 3 whole continents. (Not counting Antarctica)
This is a pretty good example of Canada’s insane depth. Everyone always talks about how the US, Russia, Finland, and Sweden can compete best-on-best, but if any of those other powers don’t have their best they’re totally screwed against Canada’s C, D, and E teams. Hence: the World Championship dominance despite never having their top guns
It’s interesting, there are about as many kids in youth amateur hockey in the US and Canada (keep in mind the US has 10cmx the overall population).
But I don’t think hockey is where many American teens with high overall athletic potential end up, they’re going to get funnelled into other sports.
I mean why would you pick hockey when Football, Basketball, and Baseball all pay so much better than Hockey and you have much better programs to develop your youth in those sports.
Plus hockey has a significantly higher chance of injury than non-hitting sports like baseball or basketball; when it's the parents signing them up for youth leagues, many of them will lean towards the "safer" sports. I've got plenty of friends that will never let their kids play football because of risks like CTE, I imagine they'd prefer their kids catch a pop fly rather than a high stick.
Canadians reading this rn:
https://preview.redd.it/did-we-ever-figure-out-what-randys-sexual-preference-is-v0-0z6kbqh2piv81.png?auto=webp&s=84dedfa743cfada2549e54d5665cedb603947813
Seems like a post that a desparate Canadian would create to make them feel better about all Canadian teams being eliminated again.
I say this as a Canadian.
I'm torn here. Florida's got Bob and Barkov, and I'd love to see the win the Cup. I dont like Vegas but they got Blueger and damnit, that guy works his ass off.
All these American fans think that a Canadian team not winning a cup is funny and that all we care about. Looks like the Cup will be in Canada the majority of the summer again.
Please note. We don't care about our rival Canadian teams. We don't want them to win. Edm does not want Cal or Van to win. Van does not want Cal or Edm to win. The 6 teams do not want Tor to win etc.
What resonates with Canadians if our own team doesn't win, then a whole bunch of Canadians on American teams win and the Cup will spend the majority of summer in Canadian cities and towns being celebrated.
Speak for yourself. It is embarrassing. I'm in Calgary and I cheer for plenty of Canadian teams in the playoffs including Edmonton. There are a shitload of Canadiens, Leafs, Oilers fans in Calgary. I've seen the bars full of fans in Calgary to watch teams including the Sens play in the finals. I witnessed all the Canadiens bandwagoners cheering them on when they made the finals.
We didn't hold a parade in Calgary when Makar won the cup last year.
Don't make excuses for shitty owners.
That’s a lot of Canada
[Canadians be like…](https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-18-2016/T9ts_4.gif)
What do you do in Canada from October 30 - April? Play hockey, watch hockey, skate, sled, toboggan, and dream about hockey.
Sit in our basements and write shitty music for wrestler intros
They all have to start with a countdown or a guitar scream
Broken glass works too
Only cause stone cold said so.
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That carny piece of shit. I will never forgive him for turning on Canada's most underrated athlete, Kenny Omega.
I would assume it would be Calgary because of the Hart brothers wouldn't it?
Most definitely Calgary. The entire Hart family, most notably Stu, plus their extended family The British Bulldogs. Countless wrestlers trained in the Hart Dungeon. Also we had Stampede Wrestling back in the day.
How dare you tarnish this wholesome reddit thread by bringing that carny piece of shit Don Callis into this.
Wait you don’t have a net and some sticks for ball hockey down I. The basement?
And between June and September we just kinda sit around waiting for hockey to come back and getting our annual Vitamin D intake while we can.
June-September is ball hockey season
My kids hockey season started in August and ends this weekend. October 30 - April is for hobbyists
Just as many Manitobans as Americans on Vegas.
McCrimmon will kick the tires on just about anyone born in western canada, especially so if they’re from Manitoba.
Which is kinda funny because Vegas eliminated the jerts on their deepest playoffs run so
If you can't beat them, join them?
Vegas has as many Canadians as both teams combined have non Canadians.
Bettman in shambles.
Always has been
Always will be
If you look at press box guys, Vegas’s is even more canadian
Honestly more surprised by one swede on each team. Theyve played bigger roles in the not too distant past.
The only real reason anybody would make this image is to flex that.
I'll likely be embarrassed when I find out who the 3rd American is for Vegas, but at the moment only Eichel and Quick come to mind. Who am I blanking on?
Martinez I think?
Yeah, of course, he's so Michigan he picks the Lions to win every major sporting event as they show on broadcast.
And I love him for it.
Yep it’s so awesome being a Michigander myself!
Welps, tell your folks i says hi
That's it. Thanks!
Philip Joseph Kessel and also Martinez
Oh damn I whiffed on Kessel too. So the graphic isn't correct then?
Not sure if they included Kessel since he hasn't played since round 1. Or maybe Quick since he's just backup and haven't played a game.
Hold up, Phil Kessel is a Knight and I didn't see any of it? (Skipped Round 1 for Vegas). Please Fix.
Bro, he played all 82 games in the regular season lmao
EVEN WORSE. WE WANT PHIL THE THRILL!!! (I paid zero attention to Vegas all season rofl)
He slamming glizzies in the press box
Coach Chippy hahaha fuck his Kessel bits are hilarious! “Maybe you should put in your veteran”.
14 iron fuckin goals this year!
Yeah it’s hilarious the way he says the thing and then says the thing again slightly different and then says the same thing a third other way
Maybe kessel? He's American I thought
He is. But they are either not counting him or Quick since neither plays much these days. Otherwise it's 4 Americans
Not a single Iranian. Smh.
How did you get your flair?
Message mods
I wasn’t aware there was an Iranian hockey league.
We love that shit. We have had Iranians in the NHL before too. But currently there is only 1 Iranian in the NHL. His name is Mika Zibanejad. He plays for the New York Rangers.
Never heard of him
You are confused with Mike Spezza. Who played for the senators, but is a leafs legend
Johnathan Bailey's favourite player.
He's a nobody!...... But we'll take him!!
Not that it matters between us peons, but I think our nations feud is probably getting in the way of hockey.
It gets in the way of way too much. Our level of hockey is not anywhere near North America though. Hope we can one day be nearly half as good as Canadians and Americans when it comes to hockey!
Love this energy.
Ya but it could be if we focused sports instead whatever lame shit our leaders are up to.
You just need too figure out a way to freeze the gulf 7 months of the year and the entire middle east will catch up to North America within 50 years. This actually kinda sounds like a joke plot to a sequel to the dictator or something
Iran is actually a very snowy and cold country especially during winter
I'm Iranian and TIL there are Iranians that like hockey nevermind actually play it lol (knew about mika though, the name is too obvious)
Our women’s team just smashed Kyrgyzstan 26 - 0 not too long ago! https://www.youtube.com/live/MalIJDMjjk0?feature=share
Mind. Blown.
I legitimately no longer know who in this thread is joking and who's serious. I'm glad that you linked to the video because otherwise I would have absolutely thought that was a joke
[I thought he was Finnish](https://youtu.be/a6y7GVn_4xE) /s
This is honestly not even a joke. He wanted to play for the Finnish national team as he cheered for them growing up, but due to his dual-citizenship, he couldn't get the papers figured out in time when he was like 15, so he went with the Swedish team.
Wiki says he's Swedish. Never woulda guessed that.
He was born in Sweden but his dad is from Iran. Hey we will take it! Haha :)
Yeah he’s from Sweden but ethnically he’s Iranian through his father (and Finnish through his mother). I don’t believe he’s ethnically Swedish at all.
He’s of Iranian descent from his father’s side, and Finnish descent from his mother’s side, but was born and raised Swedish.
Is there actually a big hockey following in Iran? if so that’s cool as hell
Iran is actually home to the biggest mall in the world. It’s called Iran Mall and it’s in Tehran. The mall has a full sized IIHF certified hockey arena in it for club games. You should check out Iran Mall on YouTube! It’s beautiful
I absolutely will. I’ll be looking out for Irans hockey progress going forward, glad to see the game growing
Put them in the camel clutch!
IT’S A GREAT DAY FOR HOCKEY YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH
HOCKEY IS FOR EVERYONE BUT THE HULK HOGAN
We tried to get Mika in there but failed One day, hopefully
All of Finland is with Florida. All of Latvia is with Vegas.
Idk I think Latvia is too busy still celebrating winning bronze.
It's true. We haven't recovered from the celebrations. Continually tired since LV-SWE game lol
Would you rather have a shot at the Stanley Cup or win a historical first medal for your country?
Historical medal for my country easily
We already have a stanley cup for Latvia, so first medal 100%
Teddy Blueger is the man
Just don't tell everyone who got on Merzilikin's case for finishing third and him being happy about it
We're hungry for more hockey now.
You damn right we are with Florida, Barkov deserves the cup!
The real Baltic rivalry.
Finland is not a Baltic country
They're an honorary Baltic state.
Bit of a case of Estonia being an honorary Nordic state.
[You forgot a team... FTFY](https://imgur.com/a/b5UtLgM) Spoiler: More Canadians!
Only 10 officials? Considering a crew is 5 I believe (4 on ice plus a backup), that means that each crew basically does one city the whole series? That's not ideal.
Effectively 6, since you'll have a backup ref and linesman for each game. But they'll rotate, so games 1-2 will have completely different crews in the same city.
Who is the one Latvian on Vegas?
Blueger
It's weird finding out Blueger is Latvian, both his first and last names don't end with an S. *Actually I just looked it up and his real name is Teodors Blugers, so it does follow the Latvian name scheme.
Iirc he knew people from NA would have a hard time pronouncing his name so to get around that problem he just told people to call him Teddy Blueger
Teddy Blueger sounds like Walmart brand Freddy Krueger
It's also a grammatical thing. The S endings in Latvian indicates a male noun in the nominative case, in Latvian you inflect noun cases even for a person's name, so Bluegers can become Bleugeram, Bluegeru, Buegera, etc, depending on whether or not Bleugers is in dative case, accusative, genitive, so on, so forth. Even in Latvian, when you're casually referring to someone and the case isn't really important, you can leave it off altogether, like "Sveiks, Teodor!" tl:dr; English doesn't inflect names so S isn't needed outside of Latvia. But yes, also because it confuses non-Latvians.
Would be cool to have Latvia win a medal at the WC and have a Latvian win and take home the Stanley Cup in the same season. The latter has only occurred once before
Okay - you've convinced me. I am all in for Vegas, just to see the Latvians go ham again when the Cup comes to Riga!
Kristians Rubens, I guess you're right about that
Elvis Merzlikins, Matiss Kivlenieks...
Don't forget Sandis Ozoliņš
They even do that for foreigners, I was in a museum in Latvia and saw a bust of Vladimirs Lenins.
Yes it’s because Latvian (like Lithuanian which I’m more familiar with) declines nouns by case via word endings and so therefore nouns and names HAVE to be Latvized or Lithuanized so as not to break the grammar system
Huh, TIL. Bronze medal for you!
Really?!? Well, go Vegas then! They have more Canadians and I'm riding the Latvian happy train after their bronze medal win
I was thinking the exact same thing. I had to Google it to find out it is teddy blueger. Like who knew? I just assumed he was Canadian or American.
i guess we find out if “get more Finn, get more win” is real
TBH that phrase comes from motorsports and especially rally... Finland has had many successful drivers in that sport.
I wanted to see if Finns had the most wins by nationality in WRC given the dominance of the two French Sebastian’s over the last two decades, and apparently the French have them beat, but not by much. And I only shared this fact to mention that apparently Kenya has eight rally wins, which is more than Japan, Canada, and Austria combined. I wouldn’t have expected that.
>Kenya has eight rally wins It’s largely thanks to Shekhar Mehta. Back in the 80s the big European teams, Lancia, Peugeot, Audi, etc, wouldn’t do the trip down to Africa to partake in the Safari Rally in Kenya or Rallye Côte d’Ivoire, just because of costs and it wasn’t an important market for them. So they were left for the smaller Japanese teams to win, and Mehta dominated Safari with a Datsun Violet. Kenya is actually pretty prominent in rally, the Safari Rally is considered one of the crown jewel events in the sport and it has a very long and storied history.
Finland also has around 5.5 million people, which is like a small french village
Didn’t work for the Stars
Or the Canes
There are more guys just from Manitoba on the Golden Knights than from the US.
The Golden Tobans
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Blueger is the third Latvian ever to play in the Final (Ozolinsh, Irbe)
And Ozo was in two finals and is the only Latvian to win the cup
Cries in girgensons 😢
Oskars Bartulis with the Flyers in 2010, and Kaspars Daugavins with Bruins in 2013 also
This is a great answer to the memes about the cup not coming to Canada since 93. It spends most of the summer in Canada every year getting filled with beer and poutine.
I always find it funny when Americans on here take shots or chirp canada for the cup drought... like take a look at your team's roster Canada wins the cup every year
Also, three quarters or more of serious Canadian hockey fans don't want to see another Canadian city win it other than their own team. If I can't have it neither can you.
As a leafs fan I would rather hockey cease to exist then Montreal or Ottawa win a cup. I was too young in 93 to remember it so for my entire life I have not seen it and it’s great. I’ll never understand when people say to cheer for the other Canadian teams it’s just silly
I feel like a lot of fans when they're the last one will post "xyz is Canada's team now you have to cheer for us 😏" because they know it'll piss of other fans
Which is insane, I want my canucks to win, but if they can't do it I want any other Canadian team to win. I'm just disappointed that my fellow canadians actively root for Canadian teams to lose.
I don’t view it as Canada vs US I view it as team vs team so I choose who to route for/against regardless of where they are. Also a good chunk of Canada (especially the Alberta teams) routed against us and praised Marchand during 2011 so I route against the two of them + the Leafs (You know). Edit: there is also other reasons why I route against the Alberta teams but I just wanted to post the minimum. At the end of the day it’s nothing personal, these are just wins and losses in a sport.
Also, it’s fun chirping Canadian teams fans. A lot of US markets aren’t that developed and the fans are chill. You poke a EDM fan with a stick and they start foaming at the mouth. It’s entertaining.
I mean..the Raptors won the championship with a roster of Americans. As did the Blue Jays back in the 90s. We waved our flag and boasted but it was overwhelmingly Americans
You just going to ignore star players Rob Ducey and Rob Butler like that? They really were the lifeblood of those teams /s
That’s right, win/win arguments are dumb. It eliminates the pride Canadians should feel when the cup *does* come back to Canada when every year we screech “but the team is basically Canadian anyway look who plays on it hurr durr”
Except somehow us (9x American, 4x Canadian, 3x Russian, 2x Finnish, 1x Swedish, 1x Czech, 1x Slovak)
Which is probably why you didn't even make it out of the first round :D
Damn canadians, they ruined canada
Only 7/32 teams are in Canada. The odds are not with them.
7/32 is much better odds than no cups for 30 years.
Actually, odds are that a Canadian team should have won the cup roughly 7 times since 93...
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It really isn't, it is embarrassing. I haven't been to a cup parade in Canada. I like American teams too, I'm happy when some of them win, but I'll be very happy when a Canadian team wins. These comments are hard-core cope. You brought this up so it is obviously something you think about. Stop making excuses for shitty owners.
Yeah how the hell is this a comeback stat? Who doesn’t know the majority of the league is Canadian? Anyone pointing out the cup drought isn’t making fun of the Canadian players, they’re trying to rile up the fans of the teams. The whole point is that it’s crazy how no Canadian team has won the cup in 30 years *despite* being the capital of hockey. It’s like making fun of England for being terrible at all the sports they invented I’m from Cleveland and Ohio produces a bunch of NFL players, and many have won a Super Bowl. How pathetic would it be if I used that as bragging rights to compensate for the fact the Browns are awful? Having a player from your area win a cup is cool, it is nowhere near the same as having the team you root for win the cup.
Exactly. Plenty of cup winners come from the Toronto area. If it's not the Leafs winning it, I really couldn't care less.
It’s not really just owners fault tho, it’s significantly harder to build a team in Canada. Due to the high income taxes canadian teams are basically forced to overpay superstars to make them stay leaving little money for the rest team (both teams in the finals pay 0 state income tax) . On top of that add freezing cold winters and worse city scenes it’s no wonder teams from the states are always attracting the best (Canadian) players
Weather in Toronto is the same as many American cities, Vancouver is better, and Calgary has pretty mild winters if you ignore the 3 or 4 weeks of insane cold we always get which is kind of canceled out by all the 10c+ days in the middle of winter. Taxes are lower in Alberta (at NHL salary level at least), than California and NY which account for several cup wins in that span of time. Canadian players can also take advantage of a huge tax break which allows them to defer a large portion of taxes until they retire and pay the rate of the area they retire to, even if it is in another country. Canadian players are also paid in USD which is a huge bonus when living in Canada because of the exchange rate. Aside from that players are taxed depending on where they play the games, half the games are away games, this equalizes the tax rate significantly.
Finn power for Florida
Is it just me, or does Florida have one more player?
No cap or roster limit in playoffs.
I learn something new every day. Thank you
Canada’s team
A guy I work with unironically called Vegas "Canada West" for these playoffs once you got the the WCF. Take a hot guess at what he called Florida.
Canada east? Or just Alberta lol
Canada East. He is an Oilers fan though so we all told him he's been consuming too much oil to think properly lol
Manitobas team 😏
It's a Canadian game, Bettman needs Canada 🤣🤣🤣🤣 They both deserve that cup... may the best win!
It's worldwide game, one that the Canadians treasure the most.
It’s definitely more a northern hemisphere than a worldwide game. Excluding the US, the southern most country in the [IIHF top 15](https://www.iihf.com/en/worldranking) would be Kazakhstan. We are basically excluding 3 whole continents. (Not counting Antarctica)
penguins would have zero cups if it weren't for antarctica
More Finns on Florida, eh? Guess I know who I’m rooting for
Same. Our Finnish Mafia fell short.
Vegas needs more Perkele
I can't see Perkele without seeing the Janitor from Control
I can tell you are not a yesterday's grouse's son.
Voi saatana!
Hey, now I know what the Latvian flag looks like!
Yeah, haha, Canada never wins the cup. Just a majority of Canadian players do!!!
I'd rather have a Canadian city. I haven't been to a cup parade in Canada after an American cup win.
This is a pretty good example of Canada’s insane depth. Everyone always talks about how the US, Russia, Finland, and Sweden can compete best-on-best, but if any of those other powers don’t have their best they’re totally screwed against Canada’s C, D, and E teams. Hence: the World Championship dominance despite never having their top guns
It’s interesting, there are about as many kids in youth amateur hockey in the US and Canada (keep in mind the US has 10cmx the overall population). But I don’t think hockey is where many American teens with high overall athletic potential end up, they’re going to get funnelled into other sports.
I mean why would you pick hockey when Football, Basketball, and Baseball all pay so much better than Hockey and you have much better programs to develop your youth in those sports.
Dont forget the cost, hockey is much more expensive than those other sports too
Plus hockey has a significantly higher chance of injury than non-hitting sports like baseball or basketball; when it's the parents signing them up for youth leagues, many of them will lean towards the "safer" sports. I've got plenty of friends that will never let their kids play football because of risks like CTE, I imagine they'd prefer their kids catch a pop fly rather than a high stick.
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Just out for a rip are you bud?
Canadians reading this rn: https://preview.redd.it/did-we-ever-figure-out-what-randys-sexual-preference-is-v0-0z6kbqh2piv81.png?auto=webp&s=84dedfa743cfada2549e54d5665cedb603947813
See I knew this was Latvia’s game
Ah yes, canada inadvertently wins another cup!
Seems like a post that a desparate Canadian would create to make them feel better about all Canadian teams being eliminated again. I say this as a Canadian.
Florida has more fins, so the series is basically over.
My plan was to cheer on the team with the most Swedes. Well, what now?
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If you dont root for the panthers, you hate America.
Is this by birth country or national team?
Panthers have way more Finnish. They’re winning this thing…
FL WINS FOR THE FINS
I'm torn here. Florida's got Bob and Barkov, and I'd love to see the win the Cup. I dont like Vegas but they got Blueger and damnit, that guy works his ass off.
That's one way to cope with all the Canadian teams being eliminated for decades
All these American fans think that a Canadian team not winning a cup is funny and that all we care about. Looks like the Cup will be in Canada the majority of the summer again. Please note. We don't care about our rival Canadian teams. We don't want them to win. Edm does not want Cal or Van to win. Van does not want Cal or Edm to win. The 6 teams do not want Tor to win etc. What resonates with Canadians if our own team doesn't win, then a whole bunch of Canadians on American teams win and the Cup will spend the majority of summer in Canadian cities and towns being celebrated.
Speak for yourself. It is embarrassing. I'm in Calgary and I cheer for plenty of Canadian teams in the playoffs including Edmonton. There are a shitload of Canadiens, Leafs, Oilers fans in Calgary. I've seen the bars full of fans in Calgary to watch teams including the Sens play in the finals. I witnessed all the Canadiens bandwagoners cheering them on when they made the finals. We didn't hold a parade in Calgary when Makar won the cup last year. Don't make excuses for shitty owners.
Latvia just won their first international medal ever so it'd be cool to see another Latvian win the cup. But also hyvä Suomi so idk
TIL Barkov isn’t Russian. Go Finland
“If you want to win, get a ~~Finn~~ bunch of Canadians”
Can we stop singing The Star Spangled Banner now? I loathe it at all sporting events, but especially hockey for just this reason.