On February 11, Beijing time, after the end of the first match day of ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, the Korean media published a strange comment, they believe that the Chinese ice hockey team has such a large number of naturalized players, and it is surprising that the Chinese ice hockey team has lost to the United States by a large margin.
For example, there are currently 15 naturalized players on the Chinese men's ice hockey team, while south Korea had only 7 at the time.
However, this example is problematic. Most of the Chinese team is naturalized by blood, while the South Korean team is basically pure Canadian. In addition, South Korea has been using unrelated naturalized white players since 2013, but the final results are too poor to meet the requirements of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Ice hockey games, popular areas are few. In East Asia, almost no one watches the game.
Before 2013, when the Chinese ice hockey team and the Korean ice hockey team had no naturalized players, the Chinese team's performance was significantly better than that of the South Korean team. The Chinese team also has a precedent of a 7-2 wild victory over the opponent.
However, since South Korea has naturalized players, it has formed a counter-overtake to the Chinese ice hockey team.
In this Winter Olympics, the Chinese team participated for the first time, but the gap with the opponent was huge. The Chinese team brought in a number of naturalized players, but lost to the United States 0-8 in the first game.
South Korean media said that in 2018, we used 7 naturalized players, but this year the Chinese team has a total of 15. The implication is that no matter what kind of results the Chinese team achieves, it is not as good as the South Korean team.
What they didn't say, though, was that the number of people playing hockey was limited, with only 6 people. The 7 naturalized players can not only occupy all the main positions, but also have naturalized substitutes. A certain team, even if it is 100% naturalized, can still play 6 people, and the Tactics of the South Korean team in Pyeongchang are not much different.
In addition, the Actual Chinese Ice Hockey Team only has defenders Jack Kellios, Dennis Osipov, Sprawl, and goalkeeper Jeremy Smith, who are not naturalized by blood, while the 7 naturalized players of the South Korean team in Pyeongchang are pure "foreigners" without a little Korean blood.
For example, defender Zheng Enlai's grandmother is the famous high jumper Zheng Fengrong, and his sister Zheng Ninali participated in the Competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Shaanxi National Games.
The Chinese men's ice hockey team lost 0-8, and if it were A player from the NHL in the United States, the score could increase or even double.
The gap between Asian ice hockey and world hockey is very large, and even in Japan, which is the best in Asia, not many people really love and participate in ice hockey. As for the two teams in China and South Korea, as long as a player participates in ice hockey from an early age, he will basically be one of the members of the national team or the national youth team in the future.
The Chinese women's ice hockey defeated the Japanese team, which was exciting. However, the women's team player Miller is a world-class star, no matter which team, he will basically get the main position. But the Chinese men's team, there is no such player.
Both the Korean and domestic media mistakenly believe that the naturalized players of men's hockey are world-class players. Even in the league, the Kunlun Red Star with them as the bottom of the team has always been at the bottom. In three years, they played more than 170 games and did not win even 40.
Chinese ice hockey appeared at the Winter Olympics, and the goal is not to win, but to let more local players participate in the sport.
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