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New Jersey Devils and Metropolitan Riveters at the Olympics

By David Lebovitz

PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - JANUARY 27: Workers make a Olympic Rings at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre, ahead of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on January 27, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - JANUARY 27: Workers make a Olympic Rings at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre, ahead of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on January 27, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) /
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Michael Swift

(Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
(Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) /

National Team: South Korea

Position: Forward

Years With Devils: 2008-11

Current Team: High1, ALIH

Swift is one of several players on the South Korean team lacking any Korean heritage. He’s from Ontario but played for High1 of Asia League Ice Hockey since 2011 and is a naturalized South Korean citizen.

Swift had a moderately successful junior career, but went undrafted. Undersized at 5’9 and 175 lbs, not much was expected of him at a major league level. He signed with the Devils in 2008 and played with the Lowell/Albany Devils franchise for two and a half seasons before getting traded to the Sharks.

At the end of the 2010-11 season, Swift signed with High1 and has been one of the league’s biggest stars. He’s played for the South Korean national team since 2013, and he’ll be a big part of making sure the host country looks respectable in front of an international audience.

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