Foreign Penguins players make a name for themselves

We could use more light-hearted sports stories right now, so this feels like a good time to share this.

Whenever I talk to a player who is living and playing in America for the first time in his career, I like to ask about the cultural adjustments off the ice, or if there is anything that surprised him about living here.

In one of those conversations this season with Slovenian prospect Jan Drozg, he remarked how nobody here knows how to pronounce his first name (it's "Yahn") and it causes confusion if he's out at a place like Starbucks or Chick-Fil-A that asks for your first name when taking your order.

"I go to Starbucks and usually I don't say my real name," he explained. "I would say, 'I'm…