Word: macdonald
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That style is, of course, one of the main reasons the former Olympian chose Europe over a bigger-bucks offer from the Hartford Whalers. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary once called MacDonald the "best pure skating player" he had ever seen. In Switzerland, MacDonald gets a lot of room to do what he's best at--skate and score...
Cleary is part of the reason why MacDonald, and so many other Harvard hockey players, have chosen to play hockey in Europe. The style of play taught at Harvard is an international one; one much more reflective of Olympic, rather than NHL, hockey...
Janfaza also signed on with a European hockey program after graduation--he played first in an Austrian league and is now six hours south of Lugano and MacDonald, scoring goals on a team in France. Of the six seniors who played regularly for the 1988-89 championship Crimson, five signed with foreign programs last spring...
...Every now and then I think I'd like to play [in the NHL] just for the achievement of playing in the best league in the world," MacDonald said. "The money was better in Hartford, but I wasn't going to do well there unless I was ready for the 80-game grind. That's something that takes a commitment...
...MacDonald has not closed himself off to playing in the NHL--and the Whalers would still like to see him in a blue-and-green uniform next season...