I saw an interesting article in the Rochester newspaper today -
 Rochester's AHL team has been invited to participate in the 70th
 annual Spengler Cup Holiday Tournament in Davos, Switzerland from
 12/26-12/31. They are the first profession American team to
 participate. One quote from the article was particularly interesting:
 
"No North American professional team has played in the tournament,
 which originated in 1923. The representatives
sent by USA Hockey in recent years haven't been very strong, and the
 Spengler Cup committee wanted to find a more
competitive team."
 
I believe that the USA Hockey representative team in recent years have
 been college teams - I think either Princeton or Dartmouth last
 season? Can anyone confirm this?
 
If that's the case, this is IMHO another example of the disturbing
 trend of USA Hockey dropping college players/teams and replacing them
 with professionals in international competitions.
 
Chris Lerch
US College Hockey Magazine
 
PS One transaction of note...former Cornell coach Bruce (?) McCutcheon
 was named head coach of Columbus of the ECHL. Last year he was
 assistant coach of the LA Ice Dogs of the IHL.
 
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