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Originally Posted by albertGQ
Didn't Petr Nedved switch twice? From Czechoslovakia, to Canada, to Czech Republic?
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I don't think he ever played for Czechoslovakia in an international tournament. There was no Under-18 World Championships back then and he didn't play for them in the World Juniors.
He defected after his team won the Mac's Midget Tournament, but that was a club team and not the Czechoslovakian national team.
Peter Stastny did switch twice, playing originally for Czechoslovakia; then he played for Canada in the 1984 Canada Cup; then he played for Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution. I don't know if the Canada Cup was ever a fully sanctioned IIHF tournament, so he may not have needed to follow the IIHF rules to play for Canada. Also, it was during the Cold War, so the rules may have been more flexible for defectors.