Apparently NHL is willing to allow players Italian descent to represent Italy in the 2026 Olympics, let's make rosters for other countries

How about Team Africa since human started migrating from Africa 125000 years ago?
They could claim ancestry of the best team.

Team Africa forwards:

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Auston Matthews
Toronto Maple Leafs


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Connor McDavid
Edmonton Oilers


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Nathan MacKinnon
Colorado Avalanche


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Leon Draisaitl
Edmonton Oilers


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Cale Makar
Colorado Avalanche


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Nikita Kucherov
Tampa Bay Lightning
 
Then the USA and Canada would not exist at all. Because North America originally belongs to the Indian peoples. Bye bye Canada and USA! ;)
 
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I guess they want to to make it similar to soccer, or even what baseball has been doing. Some of these countries have real ambitions but don’t have the infrastructure to develop high enough level of talent, and when they can it takes decades.
 
Then the USA and Canada would not exist at all. Because North America originally belongs to the Indian peoples. Bye bye Canada and USA! ;)
You will finally be able to win a Best on best. ah shit.......there's still Sweden to beat.

Still out of luck.
 
Hockey (and Canada in particular) throws huge temper tantrums over this, with the whole must have played there 2 years after turning 12 (or whatever the specifics are) rule. I don't think IIHF (which is basically controlled by Canada) will allow it.
 


Imagine if Canadians and Americans of German descent, along with actual German born players were allowed to represent Germany:

Germany:
Brandon Hagel-Jack Eichel-Leon Draisaitl
Jake Guentzel-Tim Stützle-Sam Reinhart
JJ Peterka-Dylan Strome-Mitch Marner
Nico Sturm-Casey Mittelstadt-Nick Schmaltz

Devon Toews-Moritz Seider
Travis Sanheim-Brock Faber
Owen Zellweger-Michael Kesselring

Oettinger
Grubauer

Who would you choose for countries like Spain, Norway, France, etc.?

I'm pretty sure that Zellweger is swiss descent and not german and as somenone else stated with those standards everybody could play for team ethiopia
 
Hockey (and Canada in particular) throws huge temper tantrums over this, with the whole must have played there 2 years after turning 12 (or whatever the specifics are) rule. I don't think IIHF (which is basically controlled by Canada) will allow it.
Nah, It's only me that throws the tantrums over it.
 
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Czechs want the sons of fisher, pivonka, hejduk, Stefan and bonk back. We will also take Ludwig and xhekaj.

In tennis we want mandlikova and kordas kid too.

Outraged
 
On a more serious note.. who is the country that didn't qualify for Olympics because home country Italy got a spot?
 
On a more serious note.. who is the country that didn't qualify for Olympics because home country Italy got a spot?
Can’t really say based on how the qualification tournaments work. Everyone is essentially moved up a spot as far as qualification groups would go if host nation didn’t get an auto-bid.
 

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