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Lerch,Chris writes:
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> 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:
> [...]
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> 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?
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> 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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