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- From: f31922c@kaira.hut.fi (Asko Tapani Huumonen)
- Subject: Re: Stanley Cup champs. vs. European cup winners?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134715.27800@nntp.hut.fi>
- Summary: I hope it will happen someday
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1993Jan22.100712.17091@abo.fi>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:47:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.100712.17091@abo.fi> MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI (Marcus Lindroos INF) writes:
- >....A Finnish colleague of mine, Asko Huumonen, recently told me that a hockey
- >version of basketball's "McDonald's Open" might be a good idea. What do you
- >think? We could invite the Pittsburgh Penguins to play the top four teams of
- >the European Cup or:
- >
- >-Malmo IF (Sweden - the current European champions)
- >-Dymamo Moscow (Russia)
- >-Jokerit Helsinki (Finland)
- >-Lion Milan (Italy)
- >
- >There are some obvious advantages for the NHL (promoting their league in
- >Europe - especially if we choose a non-hockey city like Paris or London for
- >this, scouting new players...), even more so if the League is serious
- >about European expansion in the future.
-
- Perhaps I should support the idea I brought to Marcus' head. If it is
- profitable to bring two teams to Europe for one pre-season exhibition game
- there should be no financial obstacles for bringing one team to play three or
- four games. If the Stanley Cup champions were not interested any team
- from NHL would be better than nothing.
-
- This kind of tournament could take place at one arena. Surely at least one of
- the European teams taking part would be more than willing to host such games if
- London or Paris don't seem good enough. And then again the North American team
- could take a tour visiting every European team at their home arenas.
-
- There is no doubt at least some interest for this kind of tournament here in
- Europe. Somehow I feel that most North American fans couldn't care less. Please
- tell me how wrong I am.
-
-
- >MARCU$
-
- Asko
-
-
- Asko Huumonen | f31922c@kaira.hut.fi | phone 358-0-4522211
- | | home 358-0-8043563
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