While watching the game, promo footage kept appearing to showcase the players.
Out of boredom I decided to do a brief background info check on Wikipedia for each one of the players. Turns out only 5 out of 26 players are even from the United States. 21 out of the 26 players are Canadian, Russian and Swedish.
To many this probably seems arbitrary but hearing the audience chant and scream at the top of their lungs as a community to root for nearly an entire team of players outsourced from other countries just seemed strange to me. None of the players are members of the community, the only American players seem to be from Minnesota which at least they are representing the National Hockey League as an American. At the very least.
Does anyone else find this a bizarre phenomenon? The NY Islanders might as well be the Canadian/Russian Islanders. I liked watching the game but it's all so surreal when you do a simple wiki search on the players backgrounds and realize none of these players are members of these communities.