Lerch,Chris writes:
>
> 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:
> [...]
>
> 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.
 
I don't remember any mention of a US team at all in the Spengler Cup last
year, or in any year for that matter.
 
Even if it is true, I don't see why this is disturbing. The Spengler Cup
is a tournament for pro teams. Canada sends a cobbled-together "national"
team, made up of Canadians playing pro in Europe and one or two college
players. (I believe Martin St-Louis went last year). The other teams are
all European professional clubs.
 
Why shouldn't USA Hockey send a pro team to a pro tournament? Sending
Rochester makes perfect sense to me. Sending a college team is just asking
them to get hammered.
 
See you later,
John
 
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