Curtis Joseph, Team Canada, Spenglercup, Spengler Cup

Team Canada recently announced further details about the squad for the 81^st Spengler Cup. The most prominent name within the 21-man-team is Curtis Joseph.

The 40 years old superstar is one of the best goalkeepers ever. From 1990 until spring 2007 he kept an NHL-goal during 913 qualification-games and 131 playoff-games. Today he is placed fifth in the category "qualification wins" inside the ranking of the best NHL-Goalkeepers ever (446). In 1994 and in 2000 Joseph played the NHL All-Star Game and in 2002 he became Olympic champion with Canada. As „unrestricted free agent", who did not find a new team until today, Curtis Joseph has not yet been put to the test in any important game during the current season.

Squad of Team Canada for the Spengler Cup:

Goalkeepers: Wade Flaherty (Rockford/AHL), Curtis Joseph (no club)

Defenders: André Benoit (Tappara Tampere/FIN), Mark Giordano (Dynamo Moskau/RUS), Shawn Heins (Fribourg/SUI), Curtis Murphy (SCL Tigers/SUI), Mike Siklenka (Lukko Rauma/FIN), Danny Syvret (Springfield/AHL), Yannick Tremblay (Lugano/SUI)

Forwards: Ramzi Abid (Bern/SUI), Serge Aubin (Captain; Genf/SUI), Hnat Domenichelli (Ambri/SUI), Simon Gamache (Toronto/AHL), Travis Green (Zug/SUI), Kirby Law (Genf/SUI), Dale McTavish (Zug/SUI), Marty Murray (Lugano/SUI), Domenic Pittis (Kloten/SUI), Yves Sarault (Basel/SUI), Jeff Toms (Langnau/SUI), Jean-Pierre Vigier (Genf/SUI)

Head Coach: Sean Simpson (Zug/SUI)

Assistants: Doug Gilmour, Jim Koleff