stasny( his father was slovakian but has canadian citizenship and Paul was born in canada) and zach(his father was a canadian nhler named JP Parise)has american citizenship just because he was born there. So does that mean they have to represent an inferrior team in international competition?
2007-09-18 09:03:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
why would you even have to think for a second on which team you would want to play for slovakia, usa, or canada?..that's a pretty obvious choice
2007-09-18 09:09:27 · update #1
Paul Stastny has dual citizenship with Canada and the US. It is easier for him to make a name for himself as a member of the US team (ala Brett Hull and Adam Deadmarsh years ago). I'm not sure if Paul or Yan have Slovakian citizenship because they were both born in canada and raised in North America.
Zach Parise was born and raised in the US, and may not even have Canadian citizenship (I believe his dad lived in the US year round) and therefore his only option was to play for America.
2007-09-18 09:18:03 · answer #1 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You might compare this to the Brett Hull situation years back. Brett wasn't guaranteed a spot on Team Canada and he also requested if he played that he play with Gretzky. He was refused so he went to the US team even though he was born in Canada. It's a lot easier to make the American team than the Canadian team. And I'm sure there are some people pushing these guys to help bring up the profile of hockey in the US. Genuine US stars to market as it were.
2007-09-18 16:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're right. It's an easy choice. If you are born in the U.S.A, raised in the U.S.A., schooled in the U.S.A., and live in the U.S.A... you are an American citizen, as well as an American at heart. You play for the U.S.A.
What are you, Canadian? Does that mean you root for England or France when they play Canada in the Olympics? Your ancestors probably come from there. This is not much of an argument- just a bunch of America-bashing. How mature.
2007-09-18 18:42:16 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Parise was born and raised in the USA, therefore he represents the USA. His father may be Canadian, but Zach isn't; why wouldn't he want to represent HIS country, the USA?
2007-09-18 17:06:18 · answer #4 · answered by tboneund 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Brett Hull had dual citizenship for Canada and US and so a similar problem before; he wanted to play for Team Canada in his beginning year, but they declined, so he opted to play for the US instead, and once you play for a country, you cannot change over. So he always played for the US.
I suspect the same occured and Canada passed on them so they went for the US. Why would they pass on them (assuming thats what happened) ? Who knows... why would anyone pass on Brett Hull :p
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2014-06-20 02:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-20 00:58:13 · answer #7 · answered by Boat_Dude 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-18 16:17:29 · answer #8 · answered by Yeddie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋