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

archangel2

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I am not confused. The NHL does not control nationality of its players who can and can not play. The IIHF does.

A dual citizen that hasn't represented another team needs 480 days in the new country, one that has needs 1460 days. Switching twice isn't possible.


Petr Nedved says high
 

Bjornar Moxnes

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What would team Norway look like?

Anders Lee/Nick Bjugstad/Mats Zuccarello
Michael Brandsegg-Nygård//Jackson Blake

Brady Skjei/Will Borgen
Emil Lilleberg/Tyler Kleven
Stian Solberg
Yikes not good at all.
 
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SwissFan12

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So Switzerland should be able to get Joey Daccord who is actually Swiss and agreed to play for Switzerland before but couldn't because he made all his classes in NA :sarcasm:
 

Guardian452

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Italy has fielded rosters in the Winter Olympics and in the top International Championships before, and without this silliness. Why wouldn't they be able to do that now? Why the need for it?


A lot of those players were Americans or Canadians of Italian decent who played Canadian Junior or U.S. college hockey before continuing their careers in Italy. Their starting goalie for the 2006 Olympics previously was the starting goalie for Canada at the World Juniors and was considered one the top goalie prospects in his draft year.
 

ORRFForever

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A dual citizen that hasn't represented another team needs 480 days in the new country, one that has needs 1460 days. Switching twice isn't possible.
They should allow players to play for Italy this ONE time, if their own country has passed, and then go back.
 

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