This is probably old news but I still find it funny that 100% Canadian players can be greenlit to play for another country's national team in international events.
Are there any other situations like this? I remember when Petr Nedvěd played for Team Canada but that made sense insofar as he had defected to Canada.
To be honest, I have no problems with it if it makes the tournament at least a little more competitive, especially for the Oilers equivalent group of bottom feeding teams.
This is probably old news but I still find it funny that 100% Canadian players can be greenlit to play for another country's national team in international events.
Are there any other situations like this? I remember when Petr Nedvěd played for Team Canada but that made sense insofar as he had defected to Canada.
Former Flames goalie prospect Kevin Lalande played for Belarus in the past. Frank Banham plays for Hungary.
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Former Flames goalie prospect Kevin Lalande played for Belarus in the past. Frank Banham plays for Hungary.
I think the major difference here is both Boyd and Dawes represented Canada at the World Juniors. So I am not sure how this works, in the cases of Lalande and Banham I don't believe they represented Canada.
To play in the IIHF World Championship, the Olympic ice hockey tournament and the qualifications to these competitions, players must fulfill the following qualification requirements:
Each player must be under the jurisdiction of an IIHF member national association.
Each player must be a citizen of the country he represents.
Change of national eligibility (The ‘four-year’ case)
A player, who has previously participated in IIHF competition, can switch national eligibility (but only once in a player's life) if:
He is a citizen of the new country of his choice
He has participated for at least four consecutive years (1460 days) in the national competitions of his new country, during which period he has neither transferred to another country nor played ice hockey within any other country and has not played for his previous country in an IIHF competition during this four year period.
He has an international transfer card (ITC) that shows the transfer to the national association of his new country and which was approved and dated at least four years before the start of the IIHF competition in which he wishes to participate.
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Austria used to do this all the time, especially in the 90s. Our Lillehammer team for the 94 Olympics had seven Canadians for example. Not as common these days though, I believe we only had one Canadian on the Sotchi team.
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I don't think it is a bad idea. I think it allows countries with less talent to not only be more competitive in these tournaments, but I think it also helps develop more talent as I am sure other players pick up on the good things that these former NHL'ers had (though one could use that term relatively loosely).
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Austria used to do this all the time, especially in the 90s. Our Lillehammer team for the 94 Olympics had seven Canadians for example. Not as common these days though, I believe we only had one Canadian on the Sotchi team.
Canada does this somewhat for summer Olympic sports.
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Former Flames Dawes & Boyd representing Kazakhstan
Very Niiiiiiiiiice.
