"College Hockey selects" in the Spengler Cup

[jtwcornell91]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

[Trotsky]

Eastern Bias!

[jtwcornell91]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

Apparently they streamed last year's on YouTube for countries without a TV deal:
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/media/livestream (Looks like it was on TSN in Canada, but there was no US partner listed, so I guess the YouTube stream worked.)

[Trotsky]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

It's not DAH-voes?  That's how I have it for 60 years.  I like I can hear the whole thing in Slovak, a series of monosyllables permeated by belches and curses on Ruthenians and Sorbs.   https://folklife.si.edu/images/blog/zapust-procession.jpg

[jtwcornell91]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

It's not DAH-voes?  That's how I have it for 60 years.  I like I can hear the whole thing in Slovak, a series of monosyllables permeated by belches and curses on Ruthenians and Sorbs.   https://folklife.si.edu/images/blog/zapust-procession.jpg

It's Da-VOS, with the emphasis on the second syllable.  That's the pronunciation I learned when HCD came to play in Bern, watching the Spengler Cup on Swiss TV (with Ralph Krueger doing the color commentary), and taking the train there on a Eurail trip after I'd moved to Germany.

[Trotsky]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

It's not DAH-voes?  That's how I have it for 60 years.  I like I can hear the whole thing in Slovak, a series of monosyllables permeated by belches and curses on Ruthenians and Sorbs.   https://folklife.si.edu/images/blog/zapust-procession.jpg

It's Da-VOS, with the emphasis on the second syllable.  That's the pronunciation I learned when HCD came to play in Bern, watching the Spengler Cup on Swiss TV (with Ralph Krueger doing the color commentary), and taking the train there on a Eurail trip after I'd moved to Germany.

So, the cadence of Tattoo saying "Zee Plane!"

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

It's not DAH-voes?  That's how I have it for 60 years.  I like I can hear the whole thing in Slovak, a series of monosyllables permeated by belches and curses on Ruthenians and Sorbs.   https://folklife.si.edu/images/blog/zapust-procession.jpg

It's Da-VOS, with the emphasis on the second syllable.  That's the pronunciation I learned when HCD came to play in Bern, watching the Spengler Cup on Swiss TV (with Ralph Krueger doing the color commentary), and taking the train there on a Eurail trip after I'd moved to Germany.

That's also the pronunciation in Wikipedia.

[ugarte]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

It's not DAH-voes?  That's how I have it for 60 years.  I like I can hear the whole thing in Slovak, a series of monosyllables permeated by belches and curses on Ruthenians and Sorbs.   https://folklife.si.edu/images/blog/zapust-procession.jpg

It's Da-VOS, with the emphasis on the second syllable.  That's the pronunciation I learned when HCD came to play in Bern, watching the Spengler Cup on Swiss TV (with Ralph Krueger doing the color commentary), and taking the train there on a Eurail trip after I'd moved to Germany.

That's also the pronunciation in Wikipedia.

you can pry this billion dollar bill out of my cold, dead hands before i pronounce it with the accent on the second syllable

[jtwcornell91]

The first game for USA Collegiate Selects is against Team Canada (basically a selection of Canadians playing in European pro leagues) at 2:15pm EST, Friday December 26.  The livestream will be at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3p-ATwhmY

There's a tiny preview video (mostly explaining the concept of College Hockey for the Central European audience) at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeE03LxB-g

[jtwcornell91]

https://youtu.be/nCC6WHeCV_w

Skip to about 2:00 for the preview, which is mostly in English with Hochdeutsch subtitles (unless you want to hear what HC Fribourg-Gottèron's equipment manager has to say).

[jtwcornell91]

The first game for USA Collegiate Selects is against Team Canada (basically a selection of Canadians playing in European pro leagues) at 2:15pm EST, Friday December 26.  The
livestream will be at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3p-ATwhmY

There's a tiny preview video (mostly explaining the concept of College Hockey for the Central European audience) at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeE03LxB-g

They were also featured in Spengler Cup Today a couple of weeks before the tourney:

https://youtu.be/3BEsveAKCks

[stereax]

Lines for USCS.

Walsh 3LW, wearing 21. Quinnipiac guy not in the lineup <3

[fastforward]

USC looked great early on but Canada has taken command of the ice
3-0 Canada

[fastforward]

3-1 now

[stereax]

As per McNally, Walsh is on PK1 for USCS.