(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) Ernst Höfner has been coaching the German U20 national team for 14 years. Photo: Matthew Manor / HHOF-IIHF Images UFA - The U20 is now old enough and firmly established enough that players who appeared in the tournament's early years have had sons go on to play in the U20. In the case of the 2013 edition of the tournament, there are also three coaches who once skated as under-20 players and now dress in jacket and tie for the event - Ernst Höfner of Germany, Phil Housley of the United States, and Sean Simpson, the Canadian coach of Switzerland. "I was just a young kid playing at the U20 tournament," Höfner, now 55, reminisced. "This is a memory I...
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