It’s pretty sweet.”This is something his kids obviously couldn’t do in Raleigh, N.C. What has fascinated Staal is how fast kids improve here.“So we’ve been using them both,” Staal said, laughing. “Green card is nice because you don’t have to take a test,” he said.Eric Staal on being named to his fifth All-Star Game.“I’ve talked about it for years and then just haven’t done it,” Boudreau said. In September 2008, Staal's exceptional efforts were rewared with a new seven year, $57.75 million contract starting with the 2009-2010 season. Whatever you choose to do is fine.The snowblower was a Christmas gift from wife Tanya.And, as a dad who loves what he does for a living, Staal has witnessed how his children have fallen in love with hockey and the Wild since moving to Minnesota.His next-door neighbors have built outdoor rinks. I mean, if you’re going to go outside in the winter, you’re skating or playing in the snow. He skates in gym class! He has considered applying for a green card.“We went to New Orleans,” he said. That was one of his factors in choosing Minnesota.“I’ve watched how much better these kids get even from Week 1 ’til four weeks in, it’s amazing, especially my guy [Parker] because he hasn’t played a lot,” Staal said. He sold it for $675,000. Being a player in the NHL isn’t necessarily enough distinction to qualify, as the player must have impressive credentials — such as awards — to prove his talent.Growing up in Thunder Bay, Ontario, the focus for players tended to be on the journey of actually making it to the NHL. That’s the biggest thing.”“It’s sweet. … I would love to have American and Canadian citizenship.”Boudreau recently extended his green card, which can be valid for 10 years, but cardholders can apply for their citizenship after five years or three if wed to an American.“I didn’t even know what North Carolina was when I got drafted and where it was on the map,” he said.Wild center Eric Staal wasn’t too familiar with North Carolina before he began his NHL career there with the Hurricanes.Defenseman Jared Spurgeon is almost a year and a half into the process, which he said fellow Canadian Tyler Ennis embarked on at the same time he did.“Once you’re established and you know that you’re going to make a career of it,” Staal said, “those are things you think about as time marches on.”Spurgeon has accentuated his skill as an athlete in his application, with the Wild writing a letter of recommendation, but he’s also having his two younger children born in America act as sponsors; his wife and their oldest child are Canadian.Non-Americans who suit up for the Wild are in the U.S. on a P-1 visa, which can typically run for the length of a contract.The family still calls the U.S. home during hockey season, albeit now in Minnesota, but Staal could eventually dig his roots deeper into American soil. “It brings me back to the way I grew up and how things were in my hometown. Loading... Unsubscribe from BAUER Hockey? Eric Staal’s Raleigh mansion has sold.. Two months after signing the new deal Eric Staal paid $1,850,000 for this 7,769 square foot brick home in Raleigh, North Carolina's Chatsworth subdivision. Like us on Facebook to see similar storiesThe Wild begin a three-game stint in California against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday before playing the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday and the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.Minnesota has won six of its last eight outings and sits one point shy of a Western Conference wild-card berth entering Thursday's action.Staal, 35, ranks second on the Wild in points (47) and third in goals (19) through 66 games this season. But since winger Mikael Granlund anticipates his post-hockey days will be back in Finland, the idea of signing up for American citizenship hasn’t even crossed his mind.As for captain Mikko Koivu, who spends his summers in Finland but has played in Minnesota since 2005, he’s considered a green card but hasn’t started the application.But having the ability to live permanently in the U.S. would allow him to continue a lifestyle he’s known since he was a teenager.© 2020 StarTribune.

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