what country has the most nhl players?
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Its a few years old, but at the start of the 02-03 season, this was the breakdown:\n\nCanada - 383\nUnited States - 93\nCzech Republic - 59\nRussia - 49\nSweden - 44\nFinland - 36\nSlovakia - 21\nGermany - 5\nLatvia - 5\nUkraine - 3\nLithuania - 2\nPoland - 2\nSwitzerland - 2\nAustria - 1\nBelarus - 1\nBrazil - 1\nBrunei - 1\nEngland - 1\nKazakhstan - 1\nNorthern Ireland - 1\nNorway - 1\nSouth Africa - 1\nSouth Korea - 1\nTOTAL - 714
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Canada has won it 29 times in the 48 year history.\n\nSweden is second with 5 wins.
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It's England mate. The FA premier league has the most representatives at the world cup. With Arsenal and Chelsea leading the way with the most internationals at the world cup.
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Right now when healthy it's either Forsberg or Jagr.\nIn a couple of years it's going to be Ovechkin. He's only 20 and he's already one of the most exciting players to watch.
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The answer is........OILERS\n\nand by the way to add to the person above me, the roadrunners played out of toronto and then moved to edmonton
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The Russians (w/Malkin and Ovechkin) look very strong, but I think the Canadians are still a better team.\n\nSo...Canada would be my pick.
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I am unaware of many (if any) circumstances where this is the case - I assume you are refering to hockey, since there aren't that many other team sports in the Olympics? Are you sure the people you believe to be American in fact are? Many NHL players who play for American teams are not actually American.\n\nIn other cases, there may be individuals with dual citizenship who choose to represent the other country they have nationality for. It is within their legal rights to do this, if they have a residence there.
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24 Chelios, Chris\n11 Cleary, Dan\n4 Cross, Cory\n13 Datsyuk, Pavel\n33 Draper, Kris\n2 Fischer, Jiri \n39 Franzen, Johan\n96 Holmstrom, Tomas\n55 Kronwall, Niklas\n20 Lang, Robert\n22 Lebda, Brett\n34 Legace, Manny\n5 Lidstrom, Nicklas\n3 Lilja, Andreas \n0 MacLean, Donald\n18 Maltby, Kirk \n44 Mowers, Mark \n30 Osgood, Chris \n37 Samuelsson, Mikael \n23 Schneider, Mathieu \n14 Shanahan, Brendan\n29 Williams, Jason \n15 Woolley, Jason \n19 Yzerman, Steve  \n40 Zetterberg, Henrik
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Central Europe, Prague, the best beer in the world, beautiful girls and long tradition of ICE HOCKEY!!!!Jagr, Elias, Rucinsky, Sykora, Hasek, Nedved,Cechmanek etc...great country full of surprises, fairy-tale like cities, very nice people,great place to go for vacation...
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If you had to choose one team, I think the 70-79 Red Army team was the best.  Not only did they beat the All-Starts from the NHL the WHA, and the best teams the NHL and WHA had to offer, they dominated the sport at such a high level that they were unbeatable. They won 7 World Championships, 2 Olympic Gold Medals.  With wingers like Valery Kharlamov and Boris Mikhailov, Centered by Valdimir Petrov they created one of the greatest and most dangerous scoring lines of all-time and with the greatest goalie of his time Vladislav Tretiak. I don’t even think the great Canadians or Oilers teams could have beaten them in there Prime
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Sens, Thrashers, Lightning, Leafs, Stars, Ducks
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I would try to find out who looks after some of the top NHL goalies. I had read somewhere that IMG is by far one of the top athletic management firms in the world... this was several years ago. IMG's website does say they look after 60 NHL players... doesn't seem like a lot but they have some big names.
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England because many players come from there and thats where soccer started, just like canada is always the best hockey team, yankees for being in new york where baseball started.
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Have to go with the Red Wings.\n\nThe previous post mentioned their age as a factor, however the Red Wings are much younger this year then in previous years.  A lot of their production is coming from those younger members.  (Zetterberg, Dutsyuk, Samuelsson, and Williams are amoung thier top scorers.)\n\nTheir older players (Shanahan, Lidstrom, and Schneider) add leaderhsip and are preforming great.\n\nOsgood is handling the Goalie duties very well.  \n\nFinally, the seem to have a coach in Mike Babcock that the older guys respect and the younger are learning from.\n\nHard to beat that combination. \n\nIt's a long season and lots of things could change after the olympics.  Watch for key injuries at that time that will change the future for several teams.
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News flash! The NHL is not the be all and end all of hockey. \n\nHasek also won Olympic gold in 1998. \nCzech League MVP--1987, 89 and 90\nCzech Goalie of the Year--5 yrs in a row (1986-90)\n13 different tournys he has played for the Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia)\n\nAdd to this he really opened up the way for European golaies to play in the NHL in great numbers as prior to that only a few played over here in the NHL (i.e., Lindbergh, Astrom, Crha, etc.).\n\nPlus he was an innovator with his gumby style of netminding, stopping the puck with his mask or even dropping his stick to pick the puck up with his blocker...add to that his career save pct in the NHL is about .10 or more better than any other goalie. I mean, think about that...he's basically 10 percent or more better than any goalie of his era.\n\nAfter all this is a guy who took a very average Sabres team to the Final in 1999 which I'd rate his best NHL accomplishment even more than his Cup with Detroit or his MVP years.
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AROUND HALF THE GLOBE!!!! 3 BILLION... CHECK THAT NUMBER!! AMERICANS... ITS THE BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD!!
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Canada\n\nRead the first paragraph in the link provided.\n\nBest of luck,\n\nDavid