Because of his decision to represent Slovakia, hopefully he becomes nothing more than average czech extraliga player.
Same goes for Theo Rochette if true that he opted for Canada instead Swiss.
I don't understand. He will gain the opportunity to play on international level against the best teams, so he will help mainly himself, moreover he can help Slovakia to be more competitive on international tournaments and so return something to Slovakia.
According to his own words if he would stay in Ukraine he would not be playing hockey anymore...
I would find many examples of such "Canadians" or "Americans"... I don't see anything wrong on this.
On the contrary Slovakia has many examples of players, whose parents are Slovaks but because of stupid IIHF rule could not represent Slovakia even if they wanted..