The Data Source is the NHL API. Tools used were R and ggplot. The blank white line is the strike year.
Let’s not forget Brazil and their contribution of… one.
Robyn Regehr (dude was awesome too)
This is a national travesty for Canada. Our hockey dominance is waning! 😭
Do you know what happened in the 50s/60s when it was almost all Canadians?
It confuses me the most that a small country like the Czech Republic can make up 4% of all the players in a sport league on the other side of the globe
First the NHL becomes more diverse. Then Congress. What’s next, the US presidency???
10 % of NHL players are Swedish? wtf
Wow we swedes are good when you account for our size!
Take note of when the mighty ducks came out
Could be interesting to filter the data down by country region such as unlikely any Florida but a lot of Minnesota.
Would be interesting to see the breakdown by province and state. I would suspect that New England and Upper Midwestern states dominate the U.S. contingent, and California is probably up there as well due to population alone. Not sure if Canada would have any interesting patterns or if it would basically just reflect provincial populations.
Just to note that the sharp spike of US players post 1970 was basically because a number of new US teams were formed at the time.
Canada losing market share
And yet if you did this as a line graph of total players by country, Canada would be higher now than it was in the 60s. The total number of players has gone up dramatically
What was the “other” of the pre-WW2 era mostly? If it’s not Americans/Swedes/Czechs/Russians, I imagine it’s something totally different like UK born players?
Surprised there’s not so many Finnish players
I thought there were a lot more Finns
Interesting
Red is also people in the NHL named Connor.
How come so many are based inside the US then
Come on Vatican City. Are you even trying?
My dumbass was looking for Minnesota
Why is Finland lumped in with “other”? There are more Finns than Czechs in the NHL.
Can we see a graph that compensates for where Canadians nepos were counted in US totals because dad was playing in the US at the time?
11 % other is too big chunk to be lumped together.
I spent a winter in Bohemia. To me, It seemed EVERYONE played hockey at a high level. When the Jordan reservoir in Tabor froze, instant makeshift hockey rinks all over and everyone just seemed to be very good at it from 5 year olds to retirees.
This reminds me of my Slovakian boss who is still salty about Czechia getting all the good hockey players when they split up
Suck it Canada, We’re coming for you.
Finland should be illustrated out of other
the czech data is most interesting imo
In other words, Canada always wins the Sranley Cup….
The first Trudeau was our prime minister 68-84 (with a break in 79-80). Just a non-correlated data point for y’all.
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The Data Source is the NHL API. Tools used were R and ggplot. The blank white line is the strike year.
Let’s not forget Brazil and their contribution of… one.
Robyn Regehr (dude was awesome too)
This is a national travesty for Canada. Our hockey dominance is waning! 😭
Do you know what happened in the 50s/60s when it was almost all Canadians?
It confuses me the most that a small country like the Czech Republic can make up 4% of all the players in a sport league on the other side of the globe
First the NHL becomes more diverse. Then Congress. What’s next, the US presidency???
10 % of NHL players are Swedish? wtf
Wow we swedes are good when you account for our size!
Take note of when the mighty ducks came out
Could be interesting to filter the data down by country region such as unlikely any Florida but a lot of Minnesota.
Would be interesting to see the breakdown by province and state. I would suspect that New England and Upper Midwestern states dominate the U.S. contingent, and California is probably up there as well due to population alone. Not sure if Canada would have any interesting patterns or if it would basically just reflect provincial populations.
Just to note that the sharp spike of US players post 1970 was basically because a number of new US teams were formed at the time.
Canada losing market share
And yet if you did this as a line graph of total players by country, Canada would be higher now than it was in the 60s. The total number of players has gone up dramatically
What was the “other” of the pre-WW2 era mostly? If it’s not Americans/Swedes/Czechs/Russians, I imagine it’s something totally different like UK born players?
Surprised there’s not so many Finnish players
I thought there were a lot more Finns
Interesting
Red is also people in the NHL named Connor.
How come so many are based inside the US then
Come on Vatican City. Are you even trying?
My dumbass was looking for Minnesota
Why is Finland lumped in with “other”? There are more Finns than Czechs in the NHL.
Can we see a graph that compensates for where Canadians nepos were counted in US totals because dad was playing in the US at the time?
11 % other is too big chunk to be lumped together.
I spent a winter in Bohemia. To me, It seemed EVERYONE played hockey at a high level. When the Jordan reservoir in Tabor froze, instant makeshift hockey rinks all over and everyone just seemed to be very good at it from 5 year olds to retirees.
This reminds me of my Slovakian boss who is still salty about Czechia getting all the good hockey players when they split up
Suck it Canada, We’re coming for you.
Finland should be illustrated out of other
the czech data is most interesting imo
In other words, Canada always wins the Sranley Cup….
The first Trudeau was our prime minister 68-84 (with a break in 79-80). Just a non-correlated data point for y’all.