At 12:51 18.07.96 PDT, you wrote: >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 Hi Chris, Your assumption is not true, beceause last year no american team at all was invited. In former years there was a team called "USA Selection" wich mostly consisted of american pro's who played in europe. Hope this clarifies this one a bit. regards, Nick -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Heim E-mail: [log in to unmask] Institut fuer Umformtechnik CServe-ID: 100021,2172 ETH-Technopark PFA F26 Phone: ++41 1 445 13 19 Pfingstweidstr. 30 Fax: ++41 1 445 13 25 8005 Zuerich WWW: http://www.ifu.ethz.ch/~heim/heim.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.