#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

If a player has dual citizenship how do they eventually decide which national team the player should represent? Are they just allowed to choose if both teams are asking for them?

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

AFAIK the player gets to choose, but IIHF rules state that once you play for a country that's it, that's the NT you always play for. I know this because of Brandon Sutter, weirdly enough.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

NA

There is a small set of circumstances that allows you to switch but you can only switch once.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

DA

*squints* If you renounce your other citizenship I'm guessing?

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

da

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.

http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/iihf-eligibility/

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

DA I thought this was a comment about topping or bottoming at first...

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

It would be a really sad world if you could only switch that once.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Evgeni Nabokov played for Kazakhstan first and then was able to play for Russia. There were other circumstances involved though.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Marcus Foligno was once asked why he played for Canada and not for the USA like his brother, and he said he played for Canada because Canada invited him to camp and the USA didn't. Brett Hull has basically the same story, just with the nations switched IIRC. So sometimes that informs their decision, but if like McDavid was a duel citizen and obviously invited to both camps he would be able to play for which ever country.