I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
Canada is hockey.
It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
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