What exactly separates american/canadien hockey from european style?

The truth is that by this day and age the two styles have now been completely mixed. The European game was mostly about puck control, puck possession and the North American game was more a dump it in the opponents zone and physically hammer the opponent into giving you the puck in there end, wearing down the opponent. Both styles are used by all teams in the NHL now. Detroit probably plays the European style the most, but they all do it really.

I can't really agree with a lot of peoples answers here, saying that the European game is about finesse and the North American style is about grit, etc. That is a common cliche and only partly true. The NA game and the Russian game both included a lot of grit historically and are these people trying to say that North American players such as Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux were not finesse players? They are among the greatest finesse players ever to play! Bobby Orr was both full of grit and finesse, and so were many others, so I think these are very common and untrue misconceptions about the different styles. Canada has historically had many, many great finesse players and finesse teams in there history. The European game did typically pay closer attention to puck handling skills and the North Americans payed more attention to toughness, and that is the reason for the misconception. Both sides however have long been good in both areas!!!

A lot of North Americans just let there ego's get in the way and claim that they are the tougher team and that they have more heart. Don't let them fool ya!

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North American style hockey is a more hard hitting game with hip checks and body checks as well as hard slap shots. While European style is a more finesse style of poke checking and prescision wrist shots.

North American Style-Rob Blake....Dion Phanuff

European Style-Saku Koivu......Peter Foresberg

The main difference I can think of is that European hockey uses a larger rink.

There are some rule differences too, such as Automatic Icing used in Europe (instead of the race in the NHL)

every body else above me is right......but when you mix the two on one team its great, you have so many different styles of play, and the north american players learn new things from the europeans and vice versa. not to bring up the wings because they are my team, but look at there cup teams, they were a perfect mix of north american grit, and european finesse. you had the Russian five; Koslav, ferorov, larionov, fetisov, konstantinov, and the grind line; draper, maltby, McCarty.......granted konstantinov was all grit, as gritty as it gets.....thats my example.

Go Wings!!!

North Americans will kill themselves to win. Europeans play. There are obvious exceptions (Sundin, Alfredsson) but the stereotype will continue until a European-led team wins the cup (Alfredsson this year?).

I'll wait for the army of thumbs down... But basically, besides a larger rink for Euro hockey...

North Americans play like men.

Euros play like women... Wait, that's an insult to women... Sorry girls! F*gs... That better?

Aside from a few exceptions, I feel this is a fair assessment.

There, I said it, now thumbs down me. *Rolls Eyes*

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