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This is a list of National Hockey League statistical leaders by country of birth , sorted by total points. The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the end of the 2023–24 NHL season and players currently playing in the National Hockey League are marked in boldface .
All players are listed by the current country of the players' birth location, regardless of their citizenship, where they were trained in hockey or what country they represented internationally.
Wayne Gretzky is the all-time leader in points from any country.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Wayne Gretzky
EDM , LAK , STL , NYR
1,487
2,857
1.92
2
Mark Messier
EDM , NYR , VAN , NYR
1,756
1,887
1.07
3
Gordie Howe
DET , HFD
1,767
1,850
1.05
4
Ron Francis
HFD , PIT , CAR , TOR
1,731
1,798
1.04
5
Marcel Dionne
DET , LAK , NYR
1,348
1,771
1.31
6
Steve Yzerman
DET
1,514
1,755
1.16
7
Mario Lemieux
PIT
915
1,723
1.88
8
Joe Sakic
QUE , COL
1,378
1,641
1.19
9
Sidney Crosby
PIT
1,272
1,596
1.25
10
Phil Esposito
CHI , BOS , NYR
1,282
1,590
1.24
Jaromir Jagr has the second most points in NHL history.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Jaromir Jagr
PIT , WSH , NYR , PHI , DAL , BOS , NJD , FLA , CGY
1,733
1,921
1.11
2
Patrik Elias
NJD
1,240
1,025
0.83
3
Jakub Voracek
CBJ , PHI , CBJ
1,058
806
0.76
4
Milan Hejduk
COL
1,020
805
0.79
5
David Krejci
BOS
1,032
786
0.76
6
Vaclav Prospal
PHI , OTT , FLA , TBL , ANA , TBL, PHI, NYR , CBJ
1,108
765
0.69
7
Bobby Holik
HFD , NJD , NYR , ATL , NJD
1,314
747
0.57
8
David Pastrnak
BOS
674
727
1.08
9
Petr Sykora
NJD , ANA , NYR , EDM , PIT , MIN , NJD
1,017
721
0.71
10
Martin Straka
PIT , OTT , NYI , FLA , PIT, LAK , NYR
954
717
0.75
Alexander Ovechkin is Russia's all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Alexander Ovechkin
WSH
1,426
1,550
1.09
2
Evgeni Malkin
PIT
1,145
1,296
1.13
3
Sergei Fedorov
DET , ANA , CBJ , WSH
1,248
1,179
0.94
4
Alexander Mogilny
BUF , VAN , NJD , TOR , NJD
990
1,032
1.04
5
Alexei Kovalev
NYR , PIT , NYR, MTL , OTT , PIT, FLA
1,316
1,029
0.78
6
Pavel Datsyuk
DET
953
918
0.96
7
Ilya Kovalchuk
ATL , NJD , LAK , MTL , WSH
926
876
0.95
8
Nikita Kucherov
TBL
725
873
1.20
9
Vyacheslav Kozlov
DET , BUF , ATL
1,182
853
0.72
10
Sergei Gonchar (D)
WSH , BOS , PIT , OTT , DAL , MTL
1,301
811
0.62
Marian Hossa is the third highest Slovak point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Stan Mikita [ 1]
CHI
1,394
1,467
1.05
2
Peter Stastny [ 2]
QUE , NJD , STL
977
1,239
1.27
3
Marian Hossa
OTT , ATL , PIT , DET , CHI
1,309
1,134
0.87
4
Marian Gaborik
MIN , NYR , CBJ , LAK , OTT
1,035
815
0.79
5
Pavol Demitra
OTT , STL , LAK , MIN , VAN
847
768
0.91
6
Miroslav Satan
EDM , BUF , NYI , PIT , BOS
1,050
735
0.70
7
Zigmund Palffy
NYI , LAK , PIT
684
713
1.04
8
Zdeno Chara (D)
NYI , OTT , BOS , WSH , NYI
1,680
680
0.40
9
Jozef Stumpel
BOS , LAK , BOS, LAK, FLA
957
677
0.71
10
Anton Stastny
QUE
650
636
0.98
Teemu Selanne is Finland's all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Teemu Selanne
WIN , ANA , SJS , COL , ANA
1,451
1,457
1.00
2
Jari Kurri
EDM , LAK , NYR , ANA , COL
1,251
1,398
1.12
3
Tomas Sandstrom [ 3]
NYR , LAK , PIT , DET , ANA
983
856
0.87
4
Saku Koivu
MTL , ANA
1,124
832
0.74
5
Olli Jokinen
LAK , NYI , FLA , PHX , CGY , NYR , CGY, WPG , NSH , TOR , STL
1,231
750
0.61
6
Aleksander Barkov
FLA
737
711
0.96
7
Mikko Koivu
MIN , CBJ
1,035
711
0.69
8
Teppo Numminen (D)
WIN , PHX , DAL , BUF
1,372
637
0.46
9
Esa Tikkanen
EDM , NYR , STL , NJD , VAN , NYR, FLA , WSH , NYR
877
630
0.72
10
Mikko Rantanen
COL
569
616
1.08
Mike Modano—the all-time leading U.S. point scorer—is seen here scoring the goal that put him ahead of Phil Housley.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mike Modano
MNS , DAL , DET
1,499
1,374
0.92
2
Patrick Kane
CHI , NYR , DET
1,230
1,284
1.04
3
Phil Housley (D)
BUF , WIN , STL , CGY , NJD , WSH , CGY, CHI , TOR
1,495
1,232
0.82
4
Jeremy Roenick
CHI , PHX , PHI , LAK , PHX, SJS
1,363
1,216
0.89
5
Joe Pavelski
SJS , DAL
1,332
1,068
0.80
6
Keith Tkachuk
WIN , PHX , STL , ATL , STL
1,201
1,065
0.89
7
Joe Mullen
STL , CGY , PIT , BOS , PIT
1,062
1,063
1.00
8
Doug Weight
NYR , EDM , STL , CAR , STL, ANA , NYI
1,238
1,033
0.83
9
Brian Leetch (D)
NYR , TOR , BOS
1,205
1,028
0.85
10
Pat LaFontaine
NYI , BUF , NYR
865
1,013
1.17
Nicklas Lidstrom is Sweden's third all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mats Sundin
QUE , TOR , VAN
1,346
1,349
1.00
2
Daniel Alfredsson
OTT , DET
1,246
1,157
0.93
3
Nicklas Lidstrom (D)
DET
1,564
1,142
0.73
4
Henrik Sedin
VAN
1,330
1,070
0.80
5
Daniel Sedin
VAN
1,306
1,041
0.80
6
Nicklas Backstrom
WSH
1,105
1,033
0.93
7
Henrik Zetterberg
DET
1,082
960
0.89
8
Peter Forsberg
QUE , COL , PHI , NSH , COL
708
885
1.25
9
Markus Naslund
PIT , VAN , NYR
1,117
869
0.78
10
Thomas Steen
WIN
950
817
0.86
Anze Kopitar is the first Slovenian to play in the NHL.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Steve Thomas [ 6]
TOR , CHI , NYI , NJD , TOR, CHI, ANA , DET
1,235
933
0.76
2
Owen Nolan [ 7]
QUE , COL , SJS , TOR , PHX , CGY , MIN
1,200
885
0.74
3
Ken Hodge [ 8]
CHI , BOS , NYR
881
800
0.91
4
Steve Smith [ 9] (D)
EDM , CHI , CGY
804
375
0.47
5
Peter Lee [ 10]
PIT
431
245
0.57
6
Jim McFadden [ 11]
DET , CHI
412
226
0.55
7
Adam Brown [ 12]
DET , CHI , BOS
391
217
0.55
8
Jim Conacher [ 13]
DET , CHI , NYR
328
202
0.62
9
Tommy Anderson [ 14]
DET , NYA
319
189
0.59
10
Red Beattie [ 15]
BOS , DET , NYA
334
147
0.44
Ruslan Fedotenko is the fifth all-time leading scorer from Ukraine.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Peter Bondra [ 16]
WSH , OTT , ATL , CHI
1,081
892
0.83
2
Dmitri Khristich
WSH , LAK , BOS , TOR , WSH
811
596
0.73
3
Alexei Zhitnik [ 17] (D)
LAK , BUF , NYI , PHI , ATL
1,085
471
0.43
4
Johnny Gottselig [ 18]
CHI
589
371
0.63
5
Ruslan Fedotenko
PHI , TBL , NYI , PIT , NYR , PHI
863
366
0.42
6
Alexei Ponikarovsky
TOR , PIT , LAK , CAR , NJD , WPG , NJD
678
323
0.48
7
Oleg Tverdovsky [ 19] (D)
ANA , WIN , PHX , ANA, NJD , CAR , LAK
713
317
0.44
8
Nikolay Zherdev [ 20]
CBJ , NYR , PHI
421
261
0.62
9
Anton Babchuk [ 21] (D)
CHI , CAR , CGY
289
107
0.37
10
Vitaly Vishnevskiy [ 22] (D)
ANA , ATL , NSH , NJD
552
68
0.12
Dany Heatley is the second highest point scorer born in Germany, although he played internationally for Canada.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Leon Draisaitl
EDM
719
850
1.18
2
Dany Heatley [ 25]
ATL , OTT , SJS , MIN , ANA
869
791
0.91
3
Walt Tkaczuk [ 26]
NYR
945
678
0.72
4
Marco Sturm
SJS , BOS , LAK , WSH , VAN , FLA
938
487
0.52
5
Jochen Hecht
STL , EDM , BUF
833
463
0.56
6
Christian Ehrhoff (D)
SJS , VAN , BUF , PIT , LAK , CHI
789
339
0.43
7
Willie Huber [ 27] (D)
DET , NYR , VAN , PHI
655
321
0.49
8
Mikhail Grabovski [ 28]
MTL , TOR , WSH , NYI
534
296
0.55
9
Uwe Krupp (D)
BUF , NYI , QUE , COL , DET , ATL
729
281
0.39
10
Dennis Seidenberg (D)
PHI , PHX , CAR , FLA , BOS , NYI
859
251
0.29
Thomas Vanek is the all-time leading point scorer from Austria.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Thomas Vanek
BUF , NYI , MTL , MIN , DET , FLA , VAN , CBJ , DET
1,029
789
0.77
2
Andre Burakovsky [ 29]
WSH , COL , SEA
616
350
0.57
3
Michael Grabner
VAN , NYI , TOR , NYR , NJD , ARI
640
276
0.43
4
Michael Raffl
PHI , WSH , DAL
590
179
0.30
5
Marko Dano [ 30]
CBJ , CHI , WPG , COL , CBJ
141
45
0.32
6
Marco Rossi
MIN
102
41
0.40
7
Andreas Nodl
PHI , CAR
183
36
0.20
8
Thomas Pock (D)
NYR , NYI
118
17
0.14
9
Christoph Brandner
MIN
35
9
0.14
Roman Josi is the all-time leading point scorer from Switzerland.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Roman Josi (D)
NSH
909
686
0.75
2
Nino Niederreiter
NYI , MIN , CAR , NSH , WPG
886
442
0.50
3
Mark Streit (D)
MTL , NYI , PHI , PIT , MTL
786
434
0.55
4
Kevin Fiala
NSH , MIN , LAK
569
428
0.75
5
Timo Meier
SJS , NJD
541
382
0.71
6
Mark Hardy [ 31] (D)
LAK , NYR , MNS , NYR, LAK
926
368
0.40
7
Nico Hischier
NJD
452
353
0.78
8
Sven Baertschi
CGY , VAN , VGK
292
138
0.47
9
Philipp Kurashev
CHI
265
116
0.44
10
Pius Suter
CHI , DET , VAN
283
116
0.41
Antoine Roussel is the second highest French point scorer, and the highest French national.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Paul MacLean [ 32]
STL , WIN , DET , STL
719
673
0.94
2
Antoine Roussel
DAL , VAN , ARI
607
197
0.32
3
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
PHI , VGK , COL , TBL , SEA
699
138
0.20
4
Alexandre Texier
CBJ
201
79
0.39
5
Philippe Bozon
STL
144
41
0.28
6
Xavier Ouellet [ 33] (D)
DET , MTL
178
28
0.16
7
Yohann Auvitu
NJD , EDM
58
13
0.22
8
Stephane Da Costa
OTT
47
11
0.23
9
Cristobal Huet (G)
LAK , MTL , WSH , CHI
272
3
0.01
10
Kalle Kossila [ 34]
ANA
19
3
0.16
Mats Zuccarello is Norway's all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mats Zuccarello
NYR , DAL , MIN
835
636
0.76
2
Espen Knutsen
ANA , CBJ
207
111
0.54
3
Patrick Thoresen
EDM , PHI
106
24
0.23
4
Andreas Martinsen
COL , MTL , CHI
152
23
0.15
5
Ole-Kristian Tollefsen (D)
CBJ , PHI , DET
163
12
0.07
6
Jonas Holos (D)
COL
39
6
0.15
7
Anders Myrvold (D)
COL , BOS , NYI , DET
33
5
0.15
8
Emil Lilleberg (D)
TBL
37
5
0.14
Dainius Zubrus is the all-time leading point scorer from Lithuania.
Karlis Skrastins is Latvia's fourth all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Sandis Ozolinsh [ 37] (D)
SJS , COL , CAR , FLA , ANA , NYR , SJS
875
564
0.64
2
Sergei Zholtok [ 38]
BOS , OTT , MTL , EDM , MIN , NSH
588
258
0.44
3
Zemgus Girgensons
BUF
688
188
0.27
4
Karlis Skrastins (D)
NSH , COL , FLA , DAL
832
136
0.16
5
Teddy Blueger
PIT , VGK , VAN
336
126
0.38
6
Rudolfs Balcers
OTT , SJS , FLA , TBL
170
62
0.36
7
Viktor Tikhonov [ 39]
PHX , CHI , ARI
111
22
0.20
8
Raitis Ivanans
MTL , LAK , CGY
282
18
0.06
9
Herberts Vasiljevs
FLA , ATL , VAN
51
15
0.29
10
Kaspars Daugavins
OTT , BOS
91
15
0.16
Frans Nielsen is the all-time leading scorer from Denmark.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Frans Nielsen
NYI , DET
925
473
0.51
2
Nikolaj Ehlers
WPG
605
457
0.76
3
Lars Eller
STL , MTL , WSH , COL , PIT
1,036
402
0.39
4
Oliver Bjorkstrand
CBJ , SEA
545
338
0.62
5
Mikkel Boedker
ARI , COL , SJS , OTT
709
327
0.46
6
Jannik Hansen
VAN , SJS
626
256
0.41
7
Peter Regin
OTT , NYI , CHI
243
67
0.28
8
Poul Popiel [ 40] (D)
BOS , LAK , DET , VAN , EDM
224
54
0.24
9
Philip Larsen (D)
DAL , EDM , VAN
150
37
0.25
10
Frederik Andersen (G)
ANA , TOR , CAR
495
15
0.03
Evgeni Nabokov, a goaltender, is the fourth all-time leading point scorer from Kazakhstan. Although he played internationally for Russia, he started his junior career in Kazakhstan. One of his points comes from a goal scored during the 2001–02 season .
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Nik Antropov
TOR , NYR , ATL , WPG
788
465
0.59
2
Alexander Perezhogin [ 41]
MTL
128
34
0.27
3
Pavel Vorobyev [ 42]
CHI
57
25
0.44
4
Evgeni Nabokov [ 43] (G)
SJS , NYI , TBL
697
15
0.02
5
Viktor Antipin [ 44] (D)
BUF
47
10
0.21
6
Maxim Kuznetsov (D)
DET , LAK
136
10
0.07
7
Anton Khudobin [ 45] (G)
MIN , BOS , CAR , ANA , BOS, DAL , CHI
260
8
0.03
8
Konstantin Pushkarev
LAK
17
5
0.29
9
Konstantin Shafranov
STL
5
3
0.60
10
Vitali Kolesnik (G)
COL
8
1
0.13
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mariusz Czerkawski
BOS , EDM , NYI , MTL , NYI, TOR , BOS
745
435
0.58
2
Wojtek Wolski [ 47]
COL , PHX , NYR , FLA , WSH
451
267
0.59
3
Nick Harbaruk [ 48]
PIT , STL
364
120
0.33
4
Joe Jerwa [ 49] (D)
NYR , BOS , NYA , BOS, NYA
234
87
0.37
5
Krzysztof Oliwa
NJD , CBJ , PIT , NYR , BOS , CGY , NJD
410
45
0.11
6
Peter Sidorkiewicz [ 50] (G)
HFD , OTT , NJD
246
9
0.04
7
Edward Leier [ 51]
CHI
16
3
0.19
Republic of China (Taiwan)[ edit ]
Ruslan Salei was the NHL's all-time leading point scorer from Belarus at the time of his death.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Andrei Kostitsyn
MTL , NSH
398
222
0.56
2
Ruslan Salei (D)
ANA , FLA , COL , DET
917
204
0.22
3
Sergei Kostitsyn
MTL , NSH
353
176
0.50
4
Yegor Sharangovich
NJD , CGY
287
165
0.57
5
Aliaksei Protas
WSH
169
53
0.31
6
John Miszuk [ 55] (D)
DET , CHI , PHI , MNS
237
46
0.19
7
Konstantin Koltsov
PIT
144
38
0.26
8
Sergei Bautin [ 56] (D)
WIN , DET , SJS
132
30
0.23
9
Vladislav Kolyachonok (D)
ARI
39
7
0.18
10
Oleg Mikulchik (D)
WIN , ANA
37
3
0.08
Daniel Sprong is the third Dutch-born player to play in the NHL, and the first one selected in the NHL Entry Draft.
Robyn Regehr is the all-time leading point scorer from Brazil, where his parents were missionaries.
Leo Komarov is the only NHL player to be born in Estonia, though he represents Finland in international competition.
Jordan Spence is first player born in Australia to play in the NHL, although he represents Canada in international competition.
Olaf Kolzig is the only player from South Africa to have played in the NHL, although he represented Germany in international competition.
^ Stan Mikita was born in First Slovak Republic , in what is now Slovakia . He moved to Canada when he was young, and he played internationally for Canada.
^ Peter Stastny was born in Czechoslovakia , in what is now Slovakia . He played internationally with three countries (in order): Czechoslovakia, Canada , and Slovakia.
^ Tomas Sandstrom was born in Finland , but played internationally for Sweden .
^ Anze Kopitar was born in SFR Yugoslavia , in what is now Slovenia . He represents Slovenia internationally.
^ Jan Mursak was born in SFR Yugoslavia , in what is now Slovenia . He represents Slovenia internationally.
^ Steve Thomas was born in England , United Kingdom , but represented Canada internationally.
^ Owen Nolan was born in Northern Ireland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada , and played for Canada internationally.
^ Ken Hodge was born in England , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Steve Smith was born in Scotland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada , and played for Canada internationally.
^ Peter Lee was born in England , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Jim McFadden was born in what is now Northern Ireland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Adam Brown was born in Scotland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Jim Conacher was born in Scotland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Tommy Anderson was born in Scotland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Red Beattie was born in England , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada .
^ Peter Bondra was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union . However, his family moved to their native Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia ) when he was young, and he represented Slovakia internationally.
^ Alexei Zhitnik was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and he represented the Soviet Union, the CIS /Unified Team , and Russia internationally.
^ Johnny Gottselig was born in the Russian Empire , in area that is now Ukraine. He was raised in Canada .
^ Oleg Tverdovsky was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represented Russia internationally.
^ Nikolay Zherdev was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represents Russia internationally.
^ Anton Babchuk was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represents Russia internationally.
^ Vitaly Vishnevskiy was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represents Russia internationally.
^ Ivan Boldirev was born in SFR Yugoslavia , in what is now Serbia . He moved to Canada in his youth.
^ Stan Smrke was born in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , in what is now Serbia . He was raised in Canada .
^ Dany Heatley was born in West Germany , in what is now Germany . His Canadian father retired from hockey and the family moved to Canada when Heatley was still a toddler. Heatley plays for Canada internationally.
^ Walt Tkaczuk was born in Allied-occupied Germany in 1947. His birthplace lies within the territory that became the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany ) in 1949. His family moved to Canada when he was two years old.
^ Willie Huber was born in West Germany , in what is now Germany . He played internationally for Canada .
^ Mikhail Grabovski was born to Belarusian parents in East Germany , in what is now Germany . His family returned to Belarus when he was three years old, and he plays for that country internationally.
^ Andre Burakovsky was born in Austria , but was raised in Sweden . He plays for Sweden internationally
^ Marko Dano was born in Austria , but was raised in Slovakia . He plays for Slovakia internationally
^ Mark Hardy was born in Switzerland , but was raised in Canada , and played for Canada internationally.
^ Paul MacLean was born in France , but was raised in Canada .
^ Xavier Ouellet was born in France , but was raised in Canada . He plays for Canada internationally.
^ Kalle Kossila was born in France , but was raised in Finland . He plays for Finland internationally.
^ Dainius Zubrus was born in the Lithuanian SSR , in what is now Lithuania . He has played internationally for both Russia and Lithuania.
^ Darius Kasparaitis was born in the Lithuanian SSR , in what is now Lithuania . In international competitions, he has played for the Soviet Union , the CIS /Unified Team, Russia , and Lithuania.
^ Sandis Ozolinsh was born in the Latvian SSR , in what is now Latvia . Internationally, he played with three countries (in order): the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States , and Latvia.
^ Sergei Zholtok was born in the Latvian SSR , in what is now Latvia . Internationally, he played with three countries (in order): the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States , and Latvia.
^ Viktor Tikhonov was born in the Latvian SSR , in what is now Latvia . He represents Russia internationally.
^ Poul Popiel was born in Denmark but moved to Canada as a child and lost his Danish citizenship when he became an American citizen.
^ Alexander Perezhogin was born in the Kazakh SSR of the former Soviet Union , but represents Russia internationally.
^ Pavel Vorobiev was born in the Kazakh SSR of the former Soviet Union , but has represented Russia internationally.
^ Evgeni Nabokov was born in the Kazakh SSR of the former Soviet Union , but has represented Kazakhstan and Russia internationally.
^ Viktor Antipin was born in Kazakhstan , but represents Russia internationally.
^ Anton Khudobin was born in the Kazakh SSR of the former Soviet Union , but represents Russia internationally.
^ Willi Plett was born in Paraguay , but was raised in Canada .
^ Wojtek Wolski was born in Poland , but was raised in Canada .
^ Nick Harbaruk was born in Poland , but was raised in Canada .
^ Joe Jerwa was born in the Russian Empire , in what is now Poland . He was raised in Canada .
^ Peter Sidorkiewicz was born in Poland , but was raised in Canada .
^ Edward Leier was born in Poland , but was raised in Canada .
^ Rod Langway was born at a US military base in Taiwan , but represented the United States internationally.
^ Richard Park was born in South Korea, but his family emigrated to the United States when he was young. He represents the United States internationally.
^ Jim Paek was born in South Korea, but his family emigrated to Canada when he was young. He represented Canada internationally.
^ John Miszuk was born in the Byelorussian SSR , but was raised in Canada .
^ Sergei Batuin was born in the Byelorussian SSR , but represented Russia internationally.
^ Ed Beers was born in the Netherlands , but raised in Canada .
^ Ed Kea was born in the Netherlands , but raised in Canada from age 4.
^ Daniel Sprong was born in the Netherlands , but moved to Canada when he was 7 to further his hockey career.
^ a b Robyn and Richie Regehr are sons of Canadian Mennonite missionaries . Their parents were serving in Brazil when Robyn was born in 1980, and in Indonesia when Richie was born in 1983. The family eventually returned to Canada, where both brothers were trained in hockey.
^ Mike Greenlay was born in Brazil , but raised in Canada .
^ Leo Komarov was born in the Estonian SSR , but was raised in Finland and represents Finland internationally.
^ Craig Adams was born in the British protectorate of Brunei , but was raised in Canada .
^ Luca Sbisa was born in Italy , but moved to Switzerland with his family when he was one year old. He represented Switzerland internationally.
^ Nelson Debenedet was born in Italy , but moved to Canada as a child.
^ Rick Chartraw was born to American parents in Caracas while his father was working there as an engineer. The family returned to the U.S. when he was three years old.
^ Don Spring was born to Canadian parents in Maracaibo , Venezuela , but was raised and trained in Canada.
^ Arthur Kaliyev was born in Uzbekistan , but moved to the United States when he was two-years-old. He represents the United States internationally.
^ Maxim Mayorov was born in the Uzbek SSR , but represents Russia internationally.
^ Claude Vilgrain was born in Haiti , but was raised in Canada .
^ Jordan Spence was born in Australia , but was raised in Japan . He has represented Canada internationally.
^ Olaf Kölzig was born in South Africa to German parents. He moved to Canada in his youth and represented Germany internationally.
^ Chris Nielsen was born to Canadian parents in Tanzania while his father was stationed there with the Canadian International Development Agency . The family returned to Canada when he was three years old.
^ Graeme Townshend was born in Jamaica , but emigrated with his family to Canada in his early childhood, and was trained in Canada.
^ Ed Hatoum was born in Lebanon , but was raised in Canada .
^ Ryan O'Marra was born to Canadian parents in Tokyo . The family returned to Canada when he was one year old.
^ Alexandar Georgiev was born in Bulgaria and moved to Russia as a child. He has dual citizenship and represents Russia internationally.
^ Rumun Ndur was born in Nigeria , but raised in Canada .
^ Akim Aliu was born in Nigeria , but raised in Ukraine and then Canada .
^ Jan Benda was born in Belgium to Czech parents, and was raised in the former Czechoslovakia . He also played major junior hockey in Canada . Benda has since acquired German citizenship and has represented that country internationally.
^ Andre Deveaux was born in The Bahamas , but was raised in Canada .
Almost all players on this list from Russia , Ukraine , Latvia , Lithuania , Kazakhstan , and Belarus were born in the Soviet Union – in the Russian SFSR , Ukrainian SSR , Latvian SSR , Lithuanian SSR , Kazakh SSR , and Byelorussian SSR respectively. The Soviet Union officially dissolved at the end of 1991. Many of these players have represented both the Soviet Union and their respective nation in international competitions.
Almost all players on this list from the Czech Republic or Slovakia were born in Czechoslovakia . Czechoslovakia officially dissolved at the end of 1992. Many of these players have represented both Czechoslovakia and their respective nation in international competitions.
Almost every player on this list from Germany was born in West Germany . The exceptions are Mikhail Grabovski, born in East Germany , and Walt Tkaczuk, born shortly after World War II in the portion of Allied-occupied Germany that became West Germany in 1949. West Germany and East Germany reunited in 1990. Some of these players have represented both West Germany and Germany in international competitions.
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