Ice Hockey Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[evil betty 32]

  On 3/14/2025 at 8:10 PM, Josh said:

PWHL co top-scorer Hannah Miller, who represented China at Beijing 2022 and was born in Vancouver, submitted a request to play for to the IIHF.
 

China apparently isn’t allowing naturalized players on their roster anymore, so this is her only option for playing at an international level. 
 

Would be a big boost to our Olympic title hopes. 

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they (IIHF) would have to make some kind of exception to the rules because, "A player, who has previously participated in IIHF competition, can switch national eligibility (but only once in a player's life)"  Additionally, it would be interesting to know when she submitted the request to change, it would have to have been at least two years before the Olympics start. 

[Topicmaster1010 4,475]

The men's Olympic teams will reveal their first 6 players in June and announce the rest of the roster at the end of December

[evil betty 32]

  On 3/14/2025 at 8:10 PM, Josh said:

PWHL co top-scorer Hannah Miller, who represented China at Beijing 2022 and was born in Vancouver, submitted a request to play for to the IIHF.
 

China apparently isn’t allowing naturalized players on their roster anymore, so this is her only option for playing at an international level. 
 

Would be a big boost to our Olympic title hopes. 

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According to this PWHL story Mi Le, sorry Hannah Miller, is on the Canadian roster for this year's world championships.  https://www.thepwhl.com/en/news/2025/march/21/twenty-three-pwhl-players-named-to-canada-s-national-women-s-team-roster#:~:text=Forwards%3A Emily Clark (OTT),%2C Daryl Watts (TOR).

[DJ Crimson Oracle 3]

  On 3/14/2025 at 8:10 PM, Josh said:

PWHL co top-scorer Hannah Miller, who represented China at Beijing 2022 and was born in Vancouver, submitted a request to play for to the IIHF.
 

China apparently isn’t allowing naturalized players on their roster anymore, so this is her only option for playing at an international level. 
 

Would be a big boost to our Olympic title hopes. 

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Hannah Miller will be representing Canada in next year's Winter Olympics in Italy in the Women's ice hockey

[phelps 7,801]

writing here because it's going to heavily impact on the Olympics, but it's part of a way bigger blow for many sports in Italy 

 

earlier Today, the Italian idiots running the government did change the rules about getting the Italian citizenship because of the heritage (ius sanguinis)

now, only foreigners with at least 1 parent or grandfather/grandmother born in Italy will be able to ask for our citizenship

now all those people with the Italian heritage coming from men/women further down the family tree won't get it because of that (of course they will still be able to earn it following the remaining pathways, like marriage or living here for at least 5 consecutive years -if coming from EU Nations, 10 if coming from outside EU)

 

this is basically the end of any chance to have an Italian competitive team in all those team sports where there are not enough athletes practicing within our Country like ice hockey, field hockey, baseball, cricket, lacrosse, flag football and even rugby (just to name the olympic sports), all disciplines where we always relied on major help from foreign born Italians

 

but this soon will affect also a few individual sports, when the consequences of the pandemic stoppage will come into effect (soon)

 

for this thread's purpose, it' obvious that now we won't have any chance to have a decent hockey team at the 2026 Home Olympics; we are forced to stay with the current shameful B division bunch of drunk players that can't even skate

Edited Friday at 09:29 PM by phelps