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. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.