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All Italian NHL Team

Started by arag, Feb 13 2012 10:04 AM

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#1 arag

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 10:04 AM

Here is something for fun.
With a large number of NHL players with Italian background I have put this team together.
Actually it may be a pretty good team.
Here it is.


All Italian NHL Team

Head coach

John Tortorella


Forward Lines

Line 1 Michael Cammalleri Jason Spezza Zach Parise
Line 2 Brian Gionta T.J. Galiardi Todd Bertuzzi
Line 3 Max Pacioretty Matthew Lombardi Jason Chimera
Line 4 Daniel Carcillo Jay Pandolfo Matt D'Agostini

Defense Lines

Line 1 Michael Del Zotto Carlo Colaiacovo
Line 2 Chris Campoli Dan Girardi
Line 3 Alex Pietrangelo Marc-Andre Gragnani


Goaltenders

1 Roberto Luongo
2 Rick DiPietro
3 Jason LaBarbera

Have Fun !

Edited by arag, 13 February 2012 - 10:37 PM.

#2 akustyk

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 12:18 PM

not bad...

as for European roots... 200 years is not a history, it's merely a couple of generations ;) and those couple of generations later, all Americans are grandgrandgrand(...)children of some Europeans. or Asians...

see:
http://ngm.nationalg...mes-interactive

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 12:20 PM

Here is something for fun.
With a large number of NHL players with Italian background I have put this team together.
Actually it may be a pretty good team.
Here it is.


All Italian NHL Team

Head coach

John Tortorella


Forward Lines

Line 1 Michael Cammalleri Jason Spezza Zach Parise
Line 2 Brian Gionta T.J. Galiardi Todd Bertuzzi
Line 3 Manny Malhotra Matthew Lombardi Jason Chimera
Line 4 Daniel Carcillo Jay Pandolfo Matt D'Agostini

Defense Lines

Line 1 Michael Del Zotto Carlo Colaiacovo
Line 2 Chris Campoli Dan Girardi
Line 3 Alex Pietrangelo Sami Lepisto


Goaltenders

1 Roberto Luongo
2 Rick DiPietro
3 Jason LaBarbera

Have Fun !

Haha love it. Got to love that fourth line, and DiPietro in goal
lighten up people, it's the internet!

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 12:59 PM

The Blues seem to have a bunch of Italian-American players.
According to my profile, my reputation is excellent. LOL.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 12:59 PM

Manny Malhotra Italian??? im pretty sure he is of Indian extraction on his father's side... and according to wiki, his mom is french canadian

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 01:07 PM

The Blues seem to have a bunch of Italian-American players.

Holmstrom and Franzen seem like a couple of meatballs.
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Posted 13 February 2012 - 06:59 PM

Manny Malhotra Italian??? im pretty sure he is of Indian extraction on his father's side... and according to wiki, his mom is french canadian


Thank You. I have replaced him with Pacioretty.
Go Wings !

Edited by arag, 13 February 2012 - 07:06 PM.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 07:51 PM

i wonder how many of these last names can Don Cherry actually pronounce :hehe:

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 09:13 PM

i wonder how many of these last names can Don Cherry actually pronounce :hehe:


Don't worry, he can pronounce all the Canadian player names.

Though, is Sami Lepisto Italian? I know he's Finnish...but Italian-Finnish? Lepisto doesn't even sound Italian to me.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 09:36 PM

Lepisto is Finnish, not Italian. His name would be pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable, like LE-pisto, so it no longer sounds Italian anyway.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 09:57 PM

Nick Foligno
Luca Sbisa
andrew cogliano
mark giordano


non playing

mike modano
mark recci
mike peca
bates battaglia
tony esposito
phil esposito
marty turco
tony granato
rick tocchet



pretty sure all these guys have italian heritage to defintly could do better now with some of these names

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 10:11 PM

Nick Foligno
Luca Sbisa
andrew cogliano
mark giordano


non playing

mike modano
mark recci
mike peca
bates battaglia
tony esposito
phil esposito
marty turco
tony granato
rick tocchet



pretty sure all these guys have italian heritage to defintly could do better now with some of these names


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Posted 13 February 2012 - 10:39 PM

Lepisto is Finnish, not Italian. His name would be pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable, like LE-pisto, so it no longer sounds Italian anyway.

Fixed. Did not check him beforehand.
Thanks !

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 11:24 PM

All Australian team:











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Thanks TeeMan!

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 12:44 AM

All Australian team:




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Keep your head up mate.

Edited by Konnan511, 14 February 2012 - 12:44 AM.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 06:36 AM

Tony Amante

Amonte....but no biggie....

The Blues seem to have a bunch of Italian-American players.

Ya, as they have in the past as well!

Sergio Momesso

Paul & Gino Cavallini

not so sure if Mike Peluso is an Italian name though...sounds good.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 08:18 AM

Hall-of-Famers
Phil Esposito
Tony Esposito
Tom Barrasso
John Vanbiesbrouck
Mike Modano to be inducted.

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 08:58 AM

Is Bertuzzi Italian?

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:07 AM

Vanbiesbrouk is more of Dutch than Italian.


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Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:26 AM

Vanbiesbrouk is more of Dutch than Italian.

touche!

probably Van Biesbroeck in original version.

add to this: Van Massenho(e)ven, Van|der|Meer, Versteeg, Bouwmeester and.... Yzerman (modern version: IJzerman, iron-man :D )


speaking of all-star Polish team (we are better than Aussie, though not by a long shot :D )
Czerkawski
Oliwa
Wolski
Zolnierczyk
Sidorkiewicz
Konopka (that could be other Slavic, though)

Edited by akustyk, 14 February 2012 - 09:30 AM.

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