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Originally Posted by Party Elephant
I seem to recall the Italian team being made of of minor league Italian canadians/Americans, would think we might see something similar for the Chinese team.
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This is exactly what they're planning to do. There's over a dozen full Chinese or halfie North American players that they're trying to nationalize in time for the games:
Victor Bartley
Brayden Jaw
Mikael Tam
Zach Yuen
Cory Kane
Yang Hu
Luke Lockhart
Greg Squires
Brandon Yip
Julius Zhang
Chris Seto
Josh Nicholls
Derek Dun
Jordan Liem
Paris-O'Brien
It's mostly Canadians, and mostly good ECHLers or average AHLers that play for the Kunlun Red Star or Kunlun's VHL team.
Kind of a weird strategy considering that they're not pulling from legit pro talent.
Either way, they're going to be worse than Korea at the last Olympics. Korea did it the right way, imo.