Shoutout to u/Kapeter for the idea! I went a little deeper and documented the name and nationality of every captain of a Stanley cup winning team since 1924 (the first year I found that had a captain). The results aren’t that not worthy but I wanted to do a full deep dive into it.
Here’s the document with all the info if you’re curious to see all the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2OqFMypSW3yCp986C4NkQ-ds-d7pileMmpr3ZILSls/edit?usp=sharing
by ScottyG250
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The full data set can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K2OqFMypSW3yCp986C4NkQ-ds-d7pileMmpr3ZILSls/edit?usp=sharing
But, what’s the point though? Everyone already know that Canadians love hockey, Russians couldn’t play in the NHL until the 90’s (and kind of still can’t again), America doesn’t care about hockey, and Scandinavia has to super earn it to get here.
There was a British, Cup Champ Captain???!
Why are the SVK and UK 1’s different
Anyone know who the 3 American Captains are?
DUSTIN BROWN 2x
Please post this on the tampa bay lightning sub, they think they invented hockey…
Who is second russian capitain?
2/3 remaining captains this year are Canadian too
The exception being Barkov
If Florida loses the next round, add another number to Canada.
So you’re telling me a canadien dominated sport has more canadien captains? Whodve thunk it…
I disagree with calling Johnny Gottselig a Russian. He was an ethnic German from a Swedish district of the Russian Empire that is modern day Ukraine. There’s no way he ever applied for a Soviet passport and he probably only spoke German with his parents since Russian didn’t become widespread until the Soviets centralized the education system.
He immigrated to Canada the same year he was born so he was Canadian for all practical intents and purposes.
Look at the trend though! More Americans and Russians coming up over the next 20 years.
If the Panthers win we will have the first Finnish to win.
At least the cup spends most of its summer’s here.
There you go!
Canadians love posting this
If you want to win, get a Canadian
If only Modano was a captain when Dallas won
I believe, for the US, it was Derian Hatcher, followed by Dustin Brown twice.
Yep, the Brits can do more than just drink tea and eat crumpets. They can also bring home the Stanley Cup!
I’m surprised their aren’t more Russians , but I suppose the stats do start in 1924 when their were just six teams and no Russians in the league for a long while.
Cope Canada. Cope!
And this isn’t Canadian nepotism either. It’s just cause Canadians are the best hockey players in the world
HA suck it Canada rules!
I wonder what role having English as a primary language plays in this. I don’t know how to find out
Wow, as a Stars fan I didn’t realize we had one of only two US born Cup captains.
Cool trivia fact.
As someone from Scotland who can say I’ve hockey is barely even a thought to the population it makes me proud we still have a Stanley cup champion!
R.I.P Charlie
Crazy statistics