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Originally Posted by transplant99
Once you play for a country at a sanctioned event, you cannot change again IIRC
Nylander has already played for sweden as a junior.
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Juniors doesn’t matter so much.
Former Flames Nigel Dawes and Dustin Boyd played for Canada in junior but played for Kazakhstan at the senior level while Hnat Domenichelli would play for Switzerland.
There are pathways at senior as well
Who could forget good Canadian kid Petr Nedved, 1994 Olympic silver medallist, getting to defect to the Czechs as a 40 year old.
Nabokov got to play for Russia eventually as well after representing Kazakhstan early in his career.