Players that played for 2 or more National Teams

[alko]

Peter Stastny is the prototype here - played for CSSR, Canada and Slovakia.

Bryan Trotier and Tony Esposito are the other ones. As mentioned here.

Who else?

For now, lets exclude players, that played for Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and later played for their countries.

Were there any instance of Sweden <-> Finland?

 

[brachyrynchos]

Petr Nedved played for both Canada and Czech Republic if I remember correctly.

 

[Dr Awesome]

Nigel Dawes. Played for Canada and Kazakhstan

 

[The Panther]

Did Tomas Sandstrom play for Sweden or Finland?

 

[barriers]

Evgeni Nabokov played for Kazakhstan's team as a teenager and Russia's team later in life.

 

[Sprague Cleghorn]

Kasparaitis and Zubrus for Russia then Lithuania.

Also, lots of no namers who played for Canada in the juniors but played for a different country in seniors

 

[sonic92]

Dustin Boyd - Canada and Kazakhstan
Hnat Domenichelli - Canada and Switzerland
Brandon Bochenski - US and Kazakhstan

 

[crobro]

Bryan Trottier and Tony Esposito

Canada and USA

 

[crobro]

Petr Nedved played for both Canada and Czech Republic if I remember correctly.

and Czechoslovakia

 

[JackSlater]

Mark Howe played for USA at the 1972 Olympics, then Canada at the 1974 Summit Series, and then for USA going forward.

 

[Dissonance Jr]

Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list of hockey players who played for two national teams.

I had never heard of Miroslav Sikora before but this is a wild story about the 1987 IIHF world championships:

Sweden's victory was a controversial one. The Germans had beaten both Canada and Finland when it was revealed that forward Miroslav Sikora had played for the Polish junior team in 1977. He was suspended and the IIHF stripped West Germany of their two wins. The Germans took the matter to court, stating that they had been granted permission. Though Sikora remained suspended, the IIHF reinstated the two victories. If the courts had not intervened, Finland would have replaced Sweden in the medal round.

 

[Retire91]

Brett Hull was a dual citizen did he every play for one then the other? I don't know.

 

[alko]

Brett Hull was a dual citizen did he every play for one then the other? I don't know.

Only for USA as i know.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Peter Stastny is the prototype here - played for CSSR, Canada and Slovakia.

Anton and Marian both played exhibition games before they were cut from Team Canada in 1984.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Dave Ellett was on Team USA's roster (but didn't play) at the 1987 Canada Cup, then played for Canada at the 1989 World Championships.

 

[The Panther]

Brett Hull was a dual citizen did he every play for one then the other? I don't know.

Hull was still playing college hockey in 1985-86 (in Minnesota) when he was passed over for the IIHF World Hockey Championship Canadian team in Moscow. That season, he scored 52 goals in 42 games. In his division of NCAA, he was 1st in goals scored (3rd in points) that season. But he wasn't selected for Team Canada, and apparently this turned him off trying for the ultra-competitive Canadian rosters, and he ended up playing for the USA in Moscow in '86 (where he was the highest-scoring American player, with 11 points in 10 games).

I don't know if I find Hull's decision very logical. In '86, the forwards for Team Canada were entirely NHL-experienced players. Granted, he could have made that team over Phil Sykes or Jim Fox, but again those were experienced players. Hull at that point had never played an NHL game!

 

[Sanf]

According to Finnish hockey book goalie Jorma Virtanen played 2 games for Finnish NT and then later in two world championships (lower pool) in Norways NT.

 

[Sanf]

Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list of hockey players who played for two national teams.

I had never heard of Miroslav Sikora before but this is a wild story about the 1987 IIHF world championships:

Very well remembered story in Finnish hockey saga.

 

[alko]

Anton and Marian both played exhibition games before they were cut from Team Canada in 1984.

Really? Where can i see some old newspaper about this?

 

[Sanf]

Were there any instance of Sweden <-> Finland?

There was some effort few times to get Josef Boumedienne to represent Finland. He was interested himself.

Other Finns in other NT´s.

Finnish-Estonian Siim Liivik represented Finland in U20 WHC and lately Estonian NT in rehearsel games.

Eerikki Koivu played some U17 games for Finland and later represented Norway in WHC.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Really? Where can i see some old newspaper about this?

It appears I was wrong about Marian. Anton was added to the training camp roster on August 20, he played against Czechoslovakia on August 25 and had one assist, and was cut on August 31 (along with Rejean Lemelin, James Patrick, Brian Sutter and Denis Savard). Here's an article "Peter Stastny struggles to survive" Edmonton Journal, August 25, page 70.
Edmonton Journal - Google News Archive Search

 

[Sanf]

Jason Muzzatti played for Team Canada (Spengler cup 1992 winner for example) and then later for Italy even in Torino olympics. If Team Canada counts to this.

 

[MadArcand]

Jason Muzzatti played for Team Canada (Spengler cup 1992 winner for example) and then later for Italy even in Torino olympics. If Team Canada counts to this.

In similar way, Hnat Domenichelli played for Canada in WJC and then 14 years later for Switzerland in the Olympics.

 

[hypereconomist]

Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list of hockey players who played for two national teams.

I had never heard of Miroslav Sikora before but this is a wild story about the 1987 IIHF world championships:

Interesting that Tony Esposito switched nations. Is there a cool backstory on that?

 

[NyQuil]

Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list of hockey players who played for two national teams.

I had never heard of Miroslav Sikora before but this is a wild story about the 1987 IIHF world championships:

Yeah, I was living in West Germany at the time.

My German friends were wondering why Canada wasn't any good at hockey since it was our national sport. We couldn't win the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS which was obviously the top tournament in the world given the name.