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...caught me on a good day," MacDonald said in a recent interview. "The guys are all here--sometimes it almost feels like home...
...MacDonald is playing hockey for Lugano, one of 10 Swiss teams in a top European hockey league. The team has captured the league championship two of the past three years and, seven weeks into this season, holds second place. MacDonald, who skates on the top line, has seven goals in his first 14 outings...
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...