All of the following is from USA Hockey's American Hockey Magazine, August 1992 edition. Some of it may be incorrect or outdated. - mike ===== ...Forty of the NC$$'s top American players will gather for the 1992 US 20-Over Team selection camp in Cromwell, Conn., Aug. 3-15. That roster will be reduced to a 22-man team that will play in the Tampere and Sauna Cup tournaments in Finland from Aug. 15 to Sept. 3. This program is also part of the preliminary Olympic selection process. ===== US 20-Over Team Competition: Tampere/Sauna Cup, Finland, Aug. 15-Sept. 3. Training Camp: Cromwell, Conn., Aug. 3-15. Head Coach: Steve Cedorchuk (Boston College) Asst. Coaches: John Cunniff (New Jersey Devils) Mike Sertich (Minnesota-Duluth) Jack Blatherwick (1980, 84, 88 US Olympic Team Asst.) ===== 1992 US 20-OVER TRAINING CAMP ROSTER ANNOUNCED Forward Ted Drury (Harvard University/Trumbull, Conn.) and goaltender Mike Dunham (University of Maine/Endwell, NY), members of the 1992 US Olympic Team, headline 40 of the nation's top NC$$ players 20 and over who have been invited to a training camp in Cromwell, Conn., Aug 2-15 to attempt to make the 22-man 1992 US 20-Over Team. That final squad will play in a pair of high-level tournaments in Finland from Aug. 15-Sept. 3, according to USA Hockey. "This is a new program that is truly innovative," said Art Berglund, USA Hockey Director of National Teams. "These players are a big part of the talent pool for the 1994 US Olympic Team, and we're bringing them in for an intensive camp experience where they will train under some top Russian coaches, which is something we've never done for players in this age group. Then we'll take the top 22 to Finland for the Tampere Cup and the Sauna Cup tournament, where they'll face some of Europe's top club and national teams." Some of the other players included on the camp list are 1992 US National Team members Ken Klee (Bowling Green State University/Kansas City, Missouri), Derek Plante (University of Minnesota-Duluth/Cloquet, Minn.), and Barry Richter (University of Wisconsin/Madison, Wis.). In addition, a pair of NHL first-round draft choices - Bryan Smolinski (Michigan State University/Genoa, Ohio) and Doug Zmolek (University of Minnesota/Rochester, Minn.) are invited to attend the camp. "We drew about half of our 1992 Olympic team from the older collegiate group," said 1994 US Olympic coach Tim Taylor, "and my preliminary guess is that the 1994 team will be similarly composed. This program will improve skills and give us a good evaluation of these players and how they perform on the international-sized ice sheet under European conditions." The Russian coaches for the training camp are Juri Karmanov of the Central Red Army Sports Club (CSKA), for many years the principal feeder club to the Soviet/Russian Olympic Team, and Yuri Yerfilov of Dynamo Moscow, another powerhouse club team in the Russian Elite League. Karmanov served the last two years as an assistant coach under 1984 US Olympic Coach Lou Vairo at HC Milan in the Italian Elite League. These coaches will implement high- intensity training and skill development for the US squad. ... [edited out repeat listing of team's US coaches, see above. - mike] Funding for this special program is provided by a grant from the US Olympic Committee's Team '94 Program, which was instituted to provide additional training programs in the short two-year period between the '92 and '94 Winter Games. (end) =====