Comments on: Ponikarovsky is Canadian!

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:28:35 +0000

Ukraine never qualifies for anything. But I guess Nik will still play for Kahzakstan.

Maybe they can play for Canada in those stupid tournaments though. Don't know the name, the one's that are played during the playoffs where Ryan Smyth and Shane Doan are captains.

By: WDF

WDF — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:37:41 +0000

Hes no longer the big Russian winger…hes the big Canadian Winger! maybe he can just change his last name to something more…Canadian. Alex McDonald…cant get any more canadian then that! lol im all jokes but congrats alexi.

By: wprager

wprager — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:34:56 +0000

If he's got dual citizenship he could play for either (but probably not both:-)

This reminds me of the argument over Anaheim being more of a Canada's team because they had more Canadians. How many of those "Canadians" have been living in the U.S. year-round? Alfredsson spends the whole year in Canada. I'd love it if he decided to get his Citizenship, too.

Congratulations, Alexei!

By: BLUE_AND_WHITE

BLUE_AND_WHITE — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:11:36 +0000

he got canadian citizan ship, but he will still play for his home country(Ukraine?)

By: JuicemaN

JuicemaN — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:08:19 +0000

and I'm not trying to be a smart ass either.

Here's to many more posts like this one by Leafy!!

By: JuicemaN

JuicemaN — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:07:42 +0000

Just wanted to point out the maturity in this post Leafy…very impressed…see it's not that hard to write a normal, well spoken post.

By: beefjerky

beefjerky — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:51:13 +0000

Maybe, but they probably wouldn't make the team anyway. Glad to hear he got his citizenship, he plays like a Canadian too. I hope he stays here for a long time, works harder than most thats for sure.

By: LeafyMcLeaf

LeafyMcLeaf — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:37:11 +0000

Antropov was saying the other night that he was so glad to finally get a deal done, because he just got his citizenship.

Good guys, I'm glad to see guys like that decide they love this country.

Would Ponikarovsky or Antropov be able to represent Canada after representing Ukraine and Kazakhstan? I know you're not supposed to until you've played four years in your new country, but I don't think NHL counts.

Poni spent three years in St. Johns, Antropov one year. Who knows? Peter Nedved got to play for us. Holik and Mogilny still can't play for the United States though.

By: m4gician

m4gician — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:57:09 +0000

That's a proud moment. It's nice to see a class guy and decent player relocate here and call Toronto his home. It's hard for anyone who works in a city they don't live in to call home, but at least now he can. Now that he lives here, maybe he can step the effort on the ice.