Scott Young's agent, Randy Vataha (the former Patriot?), has said that Young, who was holding out with Pittsburgh, has signed a contract with an Italian team. He also wants to play in the Olympics, reprising his role from 1988 when he was a key player. (info from Lori on r.s.h) If this happens and Lafontaine's holdout continues so that he joins Team USA, Dave Peterson will be in the enviable position of having to choose from the greatest collection of forwards ever assembled for any non-Soviet Olympic team. As it is now, from the 17 forwards with the team, I could not choose which 12 I'd want to dress. But, one thing I don't want to see is players using the Olympic team as a bargaining tool. For example, Boston's Glen Wesley was about to head to the Canadian team before he signed. If a player like Lafontaine is going to join the team and take away some playing time from a kid who's been there from the start, he had better stay until February or he's going to be on my #$%& list for quite a while. Just my 2 cents. - mike