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Archives for October 18th, 2006
Anže Kopitar’s NHL debut. Click play to watch.
The 19-year-old Slovenian hockey player Anže Kopitar1 had a tremendous debut in the NHL this month, scoring twice in his first game. Sadly, an AP article referred to him as a “rookie from Sweden” — the first known instance of a major media outlet mixing up Slovenia and Sweden. (The problem: He played in Sweden, but is a Slovene.)
The official NHL site corrected the mistake, but many other news sources (including Sports Illustrated, Forbes, NBC, The Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post Intelligencer, and even his hometown paper The Los Angeles Times) repeated it. You can browse through all 156 of them here.
Another opportunity for Slovenia to get some press, down the drain.
(Thanks Matty!)
- Pointless tidbit: Although Americans refer to him as KopiTAR, here in Slovenia, the second syllable is stressed, thus: Ko-PI-tar. [back]
