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Old 01-16-2014, 09:32 PM   #356
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
Are there any Yugoslavians in the NHL?
For fun and not really much else to keep me entertained, here's the only East German to play in the league:
http://www.legendsofhockey.net/Legen...p?player=13190

Sounds from his time playing across the pond, he would've been a prime target for our former GM, if it wasn't for that pesky age thing:

He played only one game in the NHL, but Udo Kiessling will go down in history as one of the best players Germany ever produced. Kiessling, a rugged defenseman with talent, set a new record in 1992 in Meribel, France, by appearing in his fifth consecutive Olympic tournament. In a poll of readers of the German Eishockey News, he was chosen the best German defenseman of all time
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