D2uesday: Catching Up With Coach Bombay, Lester Averman, and Luis Mendoza
In 1994, one of the greatest upsets in sporting history occurred on U.S. soil. It was then that a ragtag group of kids from the Minnesota suburbs joined up with a collection of “talent” from around the country to participate in the Junior Goodwill Games. There they somehow managed to defeat a loaded Iceland team that saw seven (!) players make it to the NHL.
That was fifteen years ago. Unbelievable.
The question remains; what have the USA Ducks been up to since then? A lesser blogger might have just done a quick Google search to see what the team had been doing since they left Eden Hall Academy, but not this man. I crisscrossed the country in hopes of interviewing the whole gang.
The first installment catches up with Averman and Luis Mendoza. But first, it locates coach and mentor Gordon Bombay.
