Hi Tom,
Mexico sounds interesting place to coach, there should be challenging skaters to teach but I think very rewarding also. I would have like to be there but since I'm working almost full-time and coaching on the side traveling is luxury once in ten years or so. During next Christmas time we will head to Czech for a tournament with one of out two teams but I don't know if I'm able to go along.
I hope some day we'll get a change to go to Canada. This January we went to Ornskoldsvik, Sweden for U13 tournament and boys loved that place and tournament was so well arranged that I can recommended that place for everyone. Maybe you know that place, it's very famous hockey down? We got to visit the locker room also in the Fjallraven arena where MoDo plays and saw Forsberg's gear. Unfortunately Fobba has left the building already ;-).
Russia is close but I don't know why Finnish teams don't visit there more. Maybe the language barrier is quite high since most of us can speak Swedish and English but not so many speak Russia...
Koutsi07,
There are a lot of great tournaments in Canada at various times in the year. In Calgary there are always tournaments at Christmas time when the leagues have a break. The Mac's Midget is a big tournament for U18 players. At the end of March the leagues are finished and a lot of teams want to play in a tournament to finish off the year. So a lot of tournaments happen late in March.
Then spring/summer hockey starts and tournaments happen on weekends. Our schools go until the end of June so at the beginning of July big tournaments for these select teams start. In Calgary they have a huge one called the Stampede Challenge that happens during the Calgary Stampede which is like a wild west Mardi Gras that lasts for 10 days That tournament has teams of all ages from all over the hockey world.
So hockey never ends here and if you want to be in a tournament they would love to have a Finnish team or two.
'Enjoy the Game'