I got curious about the proportion of NHL players in different team's at the IIHF 2025 World Championship. It's interesting to see how some team's have most of their squad playing in the NHL/AHL while some countries have players only from local leagues.

Made using plotly express in Python

Data source: iihf.com and wikipedia.org

Posted by EnvironmentalShirt70

15 comments

  2. Who’s playing in the Quebec Maritime league? Didn’t seem like Canada or the US

  4. Might have been useful to enter the League totals next to each league. Would help with deciphering the smaller grey leagues where I’m doubting I can tell the different shades apart.

    Edit: Or an alphanumerical indicator for each. It looks like there’s enough room in the smallest boxes.

  5. Why is there so many on a gray scale and then only a couple colors. Could be more beautiful

  6. Should have done a half-Canadian, half-American flag for NHL.

  8. Huh? Would someone mind explaining to me what this graph is trying to say?

  9. This is hard to read so I wouldn’t say it’s beautiful

  11. also would be good to point out that just because there are no NHLers playing at the WC, doesn’t mean that there are no NHLers from that nation. Latvia has 1 player who isn’t playing in the WC because his NHL team is currently still playing in the NHL playoffs, and 1 player who has played in previous WC for Latvia, but is out this year with injury and family issues.

  12. I would love to know of all the players currently playing which team drafted the most of them – Flyers?

  13. I feel like if the title is “how many players are in NHL”, then you should focus on that part. Binary NHL vs others, instead of mentioning every single league that exists and always show NHL percentages. And with that get the colors simpler to read

  14. Data may be beautiful, but this is not. Why segment all the grey leagues at all when they become indecipherable like this.

    If the goal is to highlight NHL and other major leagues proportions, surely you either pick a cut off and then everything else is in an ‘other’ bucket, or actually give the key some colours so they can all be read.

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