A lack of international success might hint at why Hossa wanted in on Team Europe for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
There's no doubt that Team Europe general manager Miroslav Satan got dealt a challenging hand when tasked with assembling a team from the players of several European countries, many of whom never played together before. This team would need to be capable of taking on the likes of Canada, Finland, Russia, etc., without the continuity those teams boast. So there were always going to be hard choices, and there were always going be ways to second-guess Satan's decisions.