The Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild, and Washington Capitals are the league’s most diverse teams, featuring players from nine different countries. The Calgary Flames have the most Swedish players with six the Dallas Stars, Florida Panthers, and Nashville Predators, have the most Fins with five each the Boston Bruins lead with five Czechs and the Senators have the most Russians with five. Out of North American players, the Edmonton Oilers lead the league with 20 Canadians and the Winnipeg Jets lead with 15 Americans. Looking at the rosters of each team in the NHL shows an interesting rainbow of nationalities spread throughout the league. The Penguins have the lowest non-North American representation with just five players. The Capitals, once again, have the most non-North Americans on their roster with 16, closely followed by the Blue Jackets with 13. This is down from last year when the average was 35% per team. On average, each team has nine players from outside North America, or 30% of their roster. Once again, most teams are composed primarily by North American players, though the separation between North America and the rest of the world is not nearly as large as it was for the Big Six. Canada and the United States make up the majority of players in the NHL (70%), but even within the Big Six, North Americans account for 74% of players. Six teams have zero players from outside the Big Six, and 13 teams have multiple players from outside the Big Six.īroken down even further, most of the Big Six players hail from North America. The Washington Capitals lead the league with six players from non-Big Six countries. This is down from the same time last year when each team averaged three players from outside the Big Six. The average team has 1.6 players from outside Big Six countries or just around 5% of their roster/taxi squad/IR. When looking at each team in the NHL, the vast majority of every team’s roster comes from a country in the Big Six. The NHL features players of 17 different nationalities this season.Įven from the graph above, it’s easy to see that the Big Six, or the nations of Canada, United States, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, and Russia are the most represented countries in the NHL. Teams included in the chart below, and all subsequent charts are as follows in order: Canada, United States, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, France, Austria, Slovenia, Belarus, Netherlands, and Norway. These numbers are consistent with last year’s totals. In the NHL, 42% of players are from Canada. That being said, we’re still not at a stage where we can say that any country is on a level playing field with Canada. Switzerland’s Nico Hischier is selected first overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 2017 NHL Draft Two of those previous four picks were Europeans, something that just didn’t used to happen very often. Alexis Lafreniere was the first Canadian to go first overall in the NHL draft in five seasons. At the past U20 World Junior Championship, Germany made headlines with stars Tim Stuetzle, John-Jason Peterka, and Florian Elias forming one of the best lines in the whole tournament.Įach year at the NHL draft there are more and more players selected from non-traditional hockey markets, and the game really is growing in more countries around the world. The game is growing though, and it’s clear that countries like Switzerland, Germany, and Slovakia are steadily climbing up the international ice hockey charts.
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