It kinda bugs me that there are so many foreign players in the NHL. I was looking at the rosters of the teams and it listed their birth places and there are a whole lot of non North Americans playing in the NHL. Might be over 50% freakin percent!
I'm not heart broken because they are my white brothers but it's not like in the NBA where they are taking a job away from a thug. In the NHL they are taking jobs away from white guys here in the US/Canada. I'm not real partial to that.
The Red Wings have 14 of the 25 spots held by foreigners, the most in the league I believe. On the Maple Leafs about 20 spots are held by north americans (Don Cherry would be proud) around 8 of them are kids from Ontario and most from near Toronto, that might be the best hometown player ratio in sports. They also have kids from nearly every Canadian province, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Illinois. How cool is that?
I think I'm gonna be a Leafs fan.
I'm not heart broken because they are my white brothers but it's not like in the NBA where they are taking a job away from a thug. In the NHL they are taking jobs away from white guys here in the US/Canada. I'm not real partial to that.
The Red Wings have 14 of the 25 spots held by foreigners, the most in the league I believe. On the Maple Leafs about 20 spots are held by north americans (Don Cherry would be proud) around 8 of them are kids from Ontario and most from near Toronto, that might be the best hometown player ratio in sports. They also have kids from nearly every Canadian province, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Illinois. How cool is that?
I think I'm gonna be a Leafs fan.