NHL player has now been affected by Muslim Travel Ban.

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NHL player has now been affected by Muslim Travel Ban.
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An NHL player has now been affected by Donald Trump's executive order barring travelers from seven countries from entering the United States.

New York Rangers' forward Mika Zibanejad, who was born in Sweden and is of Iranian descent, is one of the people the world over feeling the affects of the President's most recent policy.

Zibanejad's father lives in the U.S. with a green card, but the Zibanejad's have family members, including Mika's grandmother and eight cousins, living in Iran. Iran was one of the seven Muslim-majority countries identified in the travel ban signed last week.

He spoke to Justin Tasch of the New York Daily News about the travel ban and how it will affect his family moving forward.

"It hasn't been easy for them to come here, and this certainly doesn't make it easier, or even possible at this point. It's hard to kind of comment on. I don't want to get in too deep, but it seems like it's very straightforward and they have very straight lines of what the deal is, but I find still they're confused about it, still a lot of confusion about what's wrong and what's not. I guess when a change like this comes very, not from nowhere, but when it comes down like it did, I feel like there was maybe not a whole lot of thought about how to work it out. It seems very straightforward but very confusing about how they deal with it."

Although he was allowed to re-enter the country after a vacation on All-Star weekend, he admits he did have concerns about whether he would have issues getting back into the U.S. However, for his family it will remain an impossibility for some time to come.

"Obviously being here now and living here doesn't make it easier. That sucks, but I can't comment more of how things are. Right now it just sucks. The more further this goes and we see what kind of solution we come to, then it's easier to kind of comment on."

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