09-06-2024, 08:02 PMicewindoo Wrote: I'll have to take your word for it that there is a lot of enthusiasm for an independent Quebec team. I know I'm new here and I realize my opinion is only one person's and may not hold much weight, but I think it's worth putting this out there: this decision massively reduces my enthusiasm for (potentially, someday) participating in IIHF, as my country no longer exists. "Rest of Canada" is not something I have any interest in representing.

You're not the only one who shares this opinion, it's a strange, and frankly dumb, concept to allow a Province of a country already represented in an international tournament, to be a representative "nation".

There's definitely precedent for HOs on the site to tell potential expansion GMs that they like their "enthusiasm" but their location or branding doesn't make sense. Not sure why that same precedent wasn't taken place in these discussions. Imo, the idea of Quebec should have been a non-starter in conversations about new federations.

How is this going to be implemented? Are players in the former IR going to be allowed to transfer if they do not want to play for Quebec? Are Quebec players on other federations going to be allowed to transfer, even if they've already made transfers already? Obviously these were issues that were going to happen if there was a new federation regardless, so I hope there's some forethought there.