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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Are there any Yugoslavians in the NHL?
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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