List of European Stanley Cup winners
The list of the European Stanley Cup winners lists all players who were able to win the Stanley Cup with their team and who meet the criteria that they were born in Europe and also learned to play ice hockey there.
Ice hockey teams have been playing for the Stanley Cup in North America since 1894. For a long time there were only North American players in the ranks of the teams, mostly from Canada . Some European-born players like Stan Mikita had emigrated with their parents to Canada or the United States at a very young age, where they learned to play ice hockey. Only in the 1964/65 season was the Swede Ulf Sterner with the New York Rangers the first player in the National Hockey League to be bought from Europe. But he only stayed in New York for four games. With the expansion of the NHL in 1967 , the league needed additional players and the steady expansion of the league, as well as the founding of the World Hockey Association , led those responsible for the teams to look increasingly for good players in Europe.
When the New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 1980 , the Swedes Anders Kallur and Stefan Persson included two players from Europe for the first time. Swedish-born Bob Nystrom was one of them, but had come to North America as a teenager. Kallur and Persson won the cup four times in a row. With Tomas Jonsson and Mats Hallin , two more Swedes joined the squad in the coming years. When the Edmonton Oilers replaced the Islanders as Stanley Cup winners in 1984 , Jari Kurri was the first Finn and Jaroslav Pouzar the first Czech to win the Stanley Cup. By 1990 , Kurri had won the trophy five times. No other European managed this more often than he did, but Esa Tikkanen set his record back in 1994 . In 2008, Nicklas Lidström was the first European player to be the captain of a winning team.
Jiří Hrdina , who had won the Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1989 , repeated this in 1991 with the Pittsburgh Penguins and was the first European to win the Stanley Cup with two different teams. With the Rangers, Alexei Kovalev , Sergei Nemtschinow and Sergei Subow were the first three Russians to win the cup in 1994. When the Colorado Avalanche won the playoffs in 1996 , the German Uwe Krupp and the Latvian Sandis Ozoliņš were nations five and six in the winners' lists. Since then, players from seven other nations have managed to win the most coveted trophy in ice hockey. The Polish Krzysztof Oliwa ( 2000 ), the Swiss David Aebischer ( 2001 ), the Slovak Jiří Bicek ( 2003 ), the Ukrainian Ruslan Fedotenko ( 2004 ), the French Cristobal Huet ( 2010 ), the Slovenian Anže Kopitar ( 2012 ) and the Dane Lars Eller ( 2018 ) were each the first in their country. Most of the European Stanley Cup winners come from Sweden, followed by Russia, the Czech Republic and Finland.
Only once since 1980 has not a single European been on the team of the Stanley Cup winner. In 1993 the Canadiens de Montréal defeated the Los Angeles Kings with only Canadians and Americans in their squad .
List of European Stanley Cup winners
The list is sorted alphabetically, but can also be sorted by nationality or the number of titles won.
Abbreviations:
Nat. = Nationality; Pos. = Position with C = center , LW = left wing , RW = right wing , D = defender , G = goalkeeper
Winner after years
| year | Stanley Cup winner | number | Europeans in the squad |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | New York Islanders | 2 | Anders Kallur, Stefan Persson |
| 1981 | New York Islanders | 2 | Anders Kallur, Stefan Persson |
| 1982 | New York Islanders | 3 | Tomas Jonsson, Anders Kallur, Stefan Persson |
| 1983 | New York Islanders | 4th | Mats Hallin, Tomas Jonsson, Anders Kallur, Stefan Persson |
| 1984 | Edmonton Oilers | 3 | Jari Kurri, Willy Lindström, Jaroslav Pouzar |
| 1985 | Edmonton Oilers | 4th | Jari Kurri, Willy Lindström, Jaroslav Pouzar, Esa Tikkanen |
| 1986 | Montréal Canadiens | 3 | Kjell Dahlin, Mats Näslund, Petr Svoboda |
| 1987 | Edmonton Oilers | 5 | Jari Kurri, Kent Nilsson, Jaroslav Pouzar, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Esa Tikkanen |
| 1988 | Edmonton Oilers | 2 | Jari Kurri, Esa Tikkanen |
| 1989 | Calgary Flames | 2 | Jiří Hrdina, Håkan Loob |
| 1990 | Edmonton Oilers | 4th | Petr Klíma, Jari Kurri, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Esa Tikkanen |
| 1991 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 3 | Jiří Hrdina, Jaromír Jágr, Ulf Samuelsson |
| 1992 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 4th | Jiří Hrdina, Jaromír Jágr, Kjell Samuelsson, Ulf Samuelsson |
| 1994 | New York Rangers | 4th | Alexander Karpowzew, Alexei Kowaljow, Sergei Nemtschinow, Sergei Subow |
| 1995 | New Jersey Devils | 4th | Tommy Albelin, Sergei Brylin, Bobby Holik, Valeri Selepukin |
| 1996 | Colorado Avalanche | 5 | Peter Forsberg, Alexei Gussarow, Valeri Kamenski, Uwe Krupp, Sandis Ozoliņš |
| 1997 | Detroit Red Wings | 8th | Vyacheslav Fetissov, Sergei Fjodorow, Tomas Holmström, Wladimir Konstantinow, Vyacheslav Koslow, Igor Larionow, Nicklas Lidström, Tomas Sandström |
| 1998 | Detroit Red Wings | 9 | Anders Eriksson, Sergei Fjodorow, Vyacheslav Fetissov, Tomas Holmström, Wladimir Konstantinow, Vyacheslav Koslow, Igor Larionow, Nicklas Lidström, Dmitri Mironow |
| 1999 | Dallas Stars | 3 | Jere Lehtinen, Roman Turek, Sergei Subow |
| 2000 | New Jersey Devils | 8th | Sergei Brylin, Patrik Eliáš, Bobby Holik, Wladimir Malachow, Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Nemtschinow, Krzysztof Oliwa, Petr Sýkora |
| 2001 | Colorado Avalanche | 5 | David Aebischer, Peter Forsberg, Milan Hejduk, Ville Nieminen, Martin Škoula |
| 2002 | Detroit Red Wings | 9 | Pawel Dazjuk, Jiří Fischer, Sergei Fjodorow, Dominik Hašek, Tomas Holmström, Igor Larionow, Nicklas Lidström, Fredrik Olausson, Jiří Šlégr |
| 2003 | New Jersey Devils | 6th | Tommy Albelin, Jiří Bicek, Sergei Brylin, Patrik Eliáš, Richard Šmehlík, Oleg Twerdowski |
| 2004 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 7th | Dmitri Afanassenkow, Nikolai Chabibulin, Martin Cibák, Ruslan Fedotenko, Pavel Kubina, Fredrik Modin, Stanislav Neckář |
| 2006 | Carolina Hurricanes | 6th | Anton Babtschuk, Martin Gerber, František Kaberle, Oleg Twerdowski, Josef Vašíček, Niclas Wallin |
| 2007 | Anaheim Ducks | 3 | Ilja Brysgalow, Samuel Påhlsson, Teemu Selänne |
| 2008 | Detroit Red Wings | 12 | Pawel Dazjuk, Valtteri Filppula, Johan Franzén, Dominik Hašek, Tomas Holmström, Jiří Hudler, Tomáš Kopecký, Niklas Kronwall, Nicklas Lidström, Andreas Lilja, Mikael Samuelsson, Henrik Zetterberg |
| 2009 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 5 | Ruslan Fedotenko, Sergei Gonchar, Evgeni Malkin, Miroslav Šatan, Petr Sýkora |
| 2010 | Chicago Blackhawks | 6th | Niklas Hjalmarsson, Marián Hossa, Cristobal Huet, Kim Johnsson, Tomáš Kopecký, Antti Niemi |
| 2011 | Boston Bruins | 5 | Zdeno Chára, Tomáš Kaberle, David Krejčí, Tuukka Rask, Dennis Seidenberg |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Kings | 2 | Anže Kopitar, Vyacheslav Voinov |
| 2013 | Chicago Blackhawks | 8th | Michael Frolík, Michal Handzuš, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Marián Hossa, Marcus Krüger, Johnny Oduya, Michal Rozsíval, Viktor Stålberg |
| 2014 | Los Angeles Kings | 3 | Marián Gáborík, Anže Kopitar, Vyacheslav Voinow |
| 2015 | Chicago Blackhawks | 10 | Niklas Hjalmarsson, Marián Hossa, Marcus Krüger, Joakim Nordström, Johnny Oduya, Antti Raanta, Michal Rozsíval, David Rundblad, Teuvo Teräväinen, Kimmo Timonen |
| 2016 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 5 | Carl Hagelin, Patric Hörnqvist, Tom Kühnhackl, Olli Määttä, Jewgeni Malkin |
| 2017 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 6th | Carl Hagelin, Patric Hörnqvist, Tom Kühnhackl, Olli Määttä, Jewgeni Malkin, Mark Streit |
| 2018 | Washington Capitals | 10 | Nicklas Bäckström, André Burakovsky, Christian Djoos, Lars Eller, Philipp Grubauer, Michal Kempný, Evgeni Kuznetsov, Dmitri Orlow, Alexander Ovetschkin, Jakub Vrána |
statistics
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Iihf.com, First non-North Americans win Stanley Cup
- ↑ internationalhockeylegends.blogspot.com, Greatest Hockey Legends - Jiri Hrdina