TSN (Button): 9
TSN (McKenzie): 9
NHL (Kimelman): 7
NHL (Morreale): 9
NHL (Lepage): 8
In Canada, there have been many hockey players who became semi-household names before they even reach puberty. Maybe that’s the case in Russia or the Nordic countries too. In the US, where non-NHL hockey has next to no pull in the national consciousness, this doesn’t happen very much. But in one notable case, American hockey fans are still talking about a viral YouTube video from 2009, and what do you know?