Category talk:Ice hockey players by country

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[edit] Define Nationality

Take Robert Nilsson for example. He is a swedish citizen, born to swedish parents in Calgary when dad Kent Nilsson was working there. He moved back to Sweden when very young and has spent most of childhood and youth in sweden and in swedish hockey and has represented sweden in 3 WJCs. So he is a canadian born swedish hockey player. He isn't a canadian hockey player.

Or take Ryan O'Marra. Born in Tokyo to canadian parents and moved back to Canada when he was 1. So he's a japanese born canadian player. He isn't a japanese player.

The worst case I've found is Paul Kariya. He's got a 3:rd gen canadian-japanese father and a scottish mother, born in canada to canadian parents, never played any hockey in japan except when representing Canada.

So why is he added to the category 'japanese hockey players'? It's like stating that every hockey player named John(s)son or Ander(s)son are Swedish players, since they sure have a Swedish immigrant some 3-4 generations back.

There are some players who have dual citizenships and/or nationality.

But country X born, doesn't automatically mean country X player.

Hdw 12:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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