Written Option 1: If for some reason you had to leave your IIHF nation today, which other IIHF nation would you choose to play for and why? An affinity for that nation, you like some of the players on it, their colors are cool, any reason is valid. If you’d outright refuse to play the IIHF tournament under a flag other than your current one, why?

I suppose if I were to select one country to change my allegiances to it would likely be Canada. Seeing as I do hail from there myself and as it turns out they kind of suck in the game anyway. Normally, I would think US and Canada would be overly dominant given the userbase but predictably so everyone wants to mix it up and go somewhere else instead.

My initial player Chance Winston was Canadian as well before he went full heel turn and not only changed his team to Russia but even changed his entire name to Luka Zaitsev. Leaving his family speechless and crushed. Maybe one day Florian Hascek will make things right, become Canadian and change his name to Chance Winston, coming full circle inside of this sick world of simulated sport.

Until that day however, I will still look forward to the opportunities to represent the Czechia nation and do right by them. My father Martin Hascek (PHL shoutout) was Slovakian and this is about as good as I can do for him.