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With citizenship practices concluded by Matt Dalton and Eric Regan, are six ice hockey players from North America who try to inject experience into the host team of the next Olympic tournament.
Saturday 23 April 2016 7 minutes reading time
When in July 2011, the XXIII Olympic Winter Games were assigned to the city & agrave; Korean Pyeongchang in many storsero mouth to an apparent lack of competitiveness & agrave; and tradition in winter sports in South Korea. But the Winter Games are not only Alpine skiing and Nordic skiing where surely the Koreans have never shone; only in Sochi the Asian team took home eight medals, three of them of 'Oro, in the Short Track (despite the defection of Ahn further enriched the medal of the hosts), in the Speed ​​Skating & agrave; and Figure Skating. Only a few months ago, Yun Won-jong and Seo Young-woo took home with merit the Bobsleigh World Cup in Two ringing in the season two wins and three third places, never outside the top ten in the eight races on the calendar. In other disciplines the program of bringing the Olympics & egrave; pi & ugrave; complex as nell''Hockey Ice where, Torino 2006 canceled after the rule which prescribed the 'membership of' the office of the host country, the home team that now & egrave ;, before the World Championships in Division I in Katowice where incrocer & agrave; the slats even with the 'Italy, the twenty-third place in the world ranking had to wait for free via dell''International Ice Hockey Federation before being sure of the participation in a group that will see & agrave; at the starting line as Canada, Czech Republic and Switzerland. However in Seoul card holders are less than 2000 of which only 10% adult males, a pool of more & ugrave; or less than 170 practitioners that draw on to build a competitive team. Going against several of its cultural principles, Korea has opened the door to players from America to strengthen squadra.Il first to obtain citizenship, three years ago, & egrave; It was Canadian Brock Radunske first foreign professional athlete to become the South Korean. Born in 1983 in Ontario, Radunske was chosen by the Edmonton Oilers in 2002 but did not and memorize options never beyond the AHL until 2007-08 when the German DEL play memorize options the Augsburger Panther. E '' in May 2008, signing for Anyang Halla, he moved to Korea & egrave; l & igrave; still play after making his debut the Finnish road but with a different method: in the summer of 2013 bought the Kiekko-Vantaa, second division team in the Asian national team at the World Championships in Division IA of 2013. Meanwhile, the Korean Federation also beat , and he sent five players in Northern Europe. The 'experience was not happy and soon the five returned to the motherland even if Sanghoon Shin, Kim and Ahn Jin Hui Wonjun continue to be on the roster of the National Katowice.Il to the Olympic program and, in general, the difficult task of developing movement hockeystico Korean & egrave; was given in the summer of 2014 Jim Paek, first player of Korean descent to play in the NHL from 1990 to 1995, the Pittsburgh Penguins where he saw twice his name written among the winners of the Stanley Cup, the Kings and Senators .in the last two years other north American players have been accorded the South Korean citizenship: Canadian Michael Swift, the American and Canadian Mike Testwuide defenders Bryan Young and Eric Regan all originally from north American minor leagues with a few appearances in the AHL. The 'last time in order to obtain citizenship and have & agrave; its debut in Katowice & egrave; goalkeeper Matt Dalton twenty-nine, for him a contract as a free agent with the Boston Bruins and never take the field and three seasons, from 2011 to 2014 in the KHL before moving all''Anyang Halla.Nella same wave of citizenship for "need & agrave; " Olympic last month as well as Regan Dalton and South Koreans have become the Russians biathletes Anna Boulygina Frolina, fourth in Sochi in the Sprint and relay world champion in 2009 and Alexander Starodubets, nell''Inseguimento seventh at the World Junior of 2012.
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