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Would you switch country allegiance if you could?

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I wouldnt and i strongly consider Brett Hull a traitor. Love it that he hates being called that over his tretchery (sp)!
 
Chimp said:
No problem whatsoever. Sweden is a joke of a country nowadays, I wouldn't even blink to abandon it if a good reason presented itself. The picture foreigners have of Sweden was maybe true some decades ago, now it's a detoriating mess.

The best part of this country is there aren't that many people living up here in the north and the nature is awesome.
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How so? Sweden has its own problems, but surely it is a nice country.
 
Sure, I would like to play for all of them, but the childhood nostalgia is pretty much set in stone by now.
 
If I couldn't make the US and Germany offered me a spot, yes I would play for Germany.

I'm only German decent though. Never lived there. So I'm not eligible anyway.

I should note however, that I wouldn't play for anyone but the US or Germany.
 
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Hall, Giroux, Seguin, Eberle etc.. playing for a different national team would be hilarious.

Not sure if they would if they could though.

What Canadian player wants to eliminate his own national team?
 
seafoam said:
Wouldn't think twice about doing it.
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This, pretty much.

I'm not well-versed on IIHF eligibility rules but I think the only country I'm eligible for a passport in other than the United States (where I was born) is the Republic of China (called "Chinese Taipei" in sports competitions). They do not appear to even have a women's team. Of course, if I were to hypothetically be male and in the same situation, then in practice if I'm playing in a foreign league for several years, I probably don't have a lot of contract offers from a North American league and even if I do then my prospects of ever making team USA are probably 0.

If I play for Dinamo Riga for 5 seasons and get the call from team Latvia (for example), I wouldn't think twice about saying yes.

On a side note I would specifically decline to ever represent Japan, but I would also probably decline to sign a contract with a Japanese club in the first place as well, so the national team would never be able to actually invite me to play for them.
 
Aceonfire said:
Hall, Giroux, Seguin, Eberle etc.. playing for a different national team would be hilarious.

Not sure if they would if they could though.

What Canadian player wants to eliminate his own national team?
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Well, life tells the best stories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Ahn

He's had his quarrels with the officials in Korea before that story so it's hard to tell what happened, but basically the korean union stopped supporting him after a major injury, so he changed citizenship, won his gold medals beating out his fellow Koreans obviously and basically shoved it in their(KSU) faces.

Things happen.
 
Primrose Everdeen said:
On a side note I would specifically decline to ever represent Japan, but I would also probably decline to sign a contract with a Japanese club in the first place as well, so the national team would never be able to actually invite me to play for them.
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Lol.
 
I wouldn't switch countries, but I won't give blind support either. I wasn't happy in the last Winter Olympics because Yandle didn't make the Team USA roster while Wheeler did.
 
Aceonfire said:
Hall, Giroux, Seguin, Eberle etc.. playing for a different national team would be hilarious.

Not sure if they would if they could though.

What Canadian player wants to eliminate his own national team?
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You say that like there's something special about Canadian nationalism when in reality it pales in comparison to the nationalism in the other hemisphere. These situations happen all of the time, especially when it comes to marginal dual-citizenship players from a powerhouse nation choosing to play for a lesser (in the context of that sport) nation. Look at the Germans on the USA soccer squad. You can always spot Canadians at the World Championship playing for marginal nations. Athletes love playing on the biggest stage. However they rationalize representing another country as honoring their parent's homeland etc, it's about the opportunity to compete at the highest level.
 
I don't treat this like a serious International Tournament so I cheer for players over countries. In 2009 I cheered for Russia (over Canada, no less) because Sergei Fedorov was on the team.
 
Canada are a fun team to watch, but I have absolutely no emotional attachment to this team. Last Olympic, it was cool to watch them win but I was rooting for Finland, for a few raisons. Probably because I grew up with Saku Koivu as an idol, because I like underdogs.

Now if Québec had a team, I would 100% support them.
 
If I wasn't good enough to make the US team (lol at the premise that I would be good enough) and I was playing in a low level country like Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, or something then absolutely, honestly I'd be honored to get the opportunity.
 
I couldn't. Ever. Born and raised in the USA, and I would be completely weirded out playing against them in ANY other uniform. Each man makes his own decisions and has his reasons; but I don't have a problem with people who play for another country. I just wouldn't.

I have Canadian ancestry on both sides of the family, and I don't think I could ever play for them against the US.

I DO root for Team Canada whenever they're NOT playing the United States; but that's not the same as suiting up for another country.
 
Benedict Kovalchuk said:
Without getting into the pointless, semantic argument about nationality, it is obviously a vague and nebulous term. That said, if he is describing himself as a 'proud Canadian' yet exlusively cheers for the Swedes all in circumstances going so far as to refuse to play for Canada for fearing playing against Sweden, then I do not think he is a 'proud Canadian' whatever that may be.
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Exactly. I would even call that treacherous.
 
I mean I'd play for a different country to play in a national tournament, absolutely. I kinda looked into that for lacrosse actually. Ultimately I decided against it though because it didn't seem like it was worth the money to just get **** on by my home country.
 
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