![]() ![]() Photo by Patrick McDermott/NHLI via Getty Images Walker with the puck commemorating his first NHL goal. He holds a dual citizenship for Canada and Japan.īut in the National Hockey League, there is only one player who identifies as Australian in the sport’s biggest organisation. While there have been other players who may have been born in Australia make the NHL, they were usually born here before moving away when they were young.įor example, the LA Kings’ Jordan Spence was born in Manly, NSW but moved as a one-year-old to Japan, before moving to Canada as a teenager. The NBA has had 29 Aussies since Luc Longley’s debut in 1992, MLB has had 36 Aussies starting with Joe Quinn way back in 1884, although Craig Shipley in 1986 started the modern trend, and Colin Ridgeway was the first Aussie to play in the NFL in 1965, with 19 Aussies having followed suit. Walker is an Australian pioneer in one of the world’s biggest sporting organisations, cracking the final of the “Big Four” US sports. Stream Over 50 Sports Live & On-Demand with Kayo. If you are an Australian sports fan and don’t know the name Nathan Walker, you should.īy the start of the century, there had been few mountains that Australian athletes hadn’t conquered on a global stage and reaching the heights of the National Hockey League in ice hockey was one of them - until Walker arrived.
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