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Chinese hockey?

The National Film Board of Canada produced a documentary feature in 1974 about the UBC Thunderbirds' 1973 friendship tour in China. This was almost 50 years ago. CAN-versation HACK-ey I thought I was watching an episode of the Great White North for a minute.
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With regards to that thread - Chinese Gov not allowing naturalised players from Kunlun to compete for Team China at the Channel One Cup - Does this mean the Kunlun experiment is now pointless? 90+% of the team are not Chinese citizens for example
 
Rigafan said:

Chinese hockey?

The National Film Board of Canada produced a documentary feature in 1974 about the UBC Thunderbirds' 1973 friendship tour in China. This was almost 50 years ago. CAN-versation HACK-ey I thought I was watching an episode of the Great White North for a minute.
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With regards to that thread - Chinese Gov not allowing naturalised players from Kunlun to compete for Team China at the Channel One Cup - Does this mean the Kunlun experiment is now pointless? 90+% of the team are not Chinese citizens for example
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From what i was reading on telegram this rumor was quickly denied.
 
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Team didn't finish dead last this year, so huge celebration.

Ideally, the real goal would be to actually play in China again (and have actual Chinese players), though I highly doubt that'll ever happen.
 
Rpenny said:
Brandon Yip is the Captain and he has been given a name that translates to Jinguang Ye
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...by his late grandma at birth. Yip and Ye are just different romanizations of the same name based on Cantonese vs. Mandarin pronunciation.
 
I'm not sure there's any hockey whatsoever left in the equation anymore. Literally zero. If the team benefits the Sino-Russian relations then it stays, if not then it goes. Obviously it will then appear absurd from any reasonable hockey standpoint.
 
Albatros said:
There's a Kunlun team in the new Chinese hockey league. As long as that league exists the KHL won't be returning, and likely not even if it didn't.
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Why can't a Chinese League coexist with the KHL? Presumably one Kunlun could act as a feeder team for the other?
 
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What would they feed? Besides a couple of Russian imports there's no one that could move between the leagues. It's also not like there's any more desire for KHL hockey in Shenzhen than there was last time around.
 
Albatros said:
What would they feed? Besides a couple of Russian imports there's no one that could move between the leagues. It's also not like there's any more desire for KHL hockey in Shenzhen than there was last time around.
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I would have thought long term they could develop Chinese players and feed a few of the best into the KHL team.
 
In any case at the moment that's like having an NHL feeder organisation in the FPHL. And if in the future China is capable of developing good enough players then it's hard to see why they'd be sent to Russia instead of strengthening the domestic league.
 
Albatros said:
There's a Kunlun team in the new Chinese hockey league. As long as that league exists the KHL won't be returning, and likely not even if it didn't.
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Which league is this? I chatted with a Siberian guy running a hockey clinic at the global centre rink, he mentioned that Kunlun is still in Russian because reasons.

If there is a league, I'll make a road trip of it and go to a game. As far as I know there aren't any teams at any level in Chengdu. I have seen the local kids practice, but it looks like they fold 3 or 4 age groups together to have a practice with maybe 15 skaters and 1 goalie.
 
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