Penticton Vees (senior)

[1][2] The Penticton Vees were named for the victory, valiant, and vidette varieties of peaches grown in the Okanagan Valley.

[citation needed] The Vees were chosen represent Canada at the 1955 Ice Hockey World Championships in West Germany.

Intelligence reported to Penticton included accounts by Canadians who played hockey in Europe and attended the Soviet Union's games.

[7] After a Canadian exhibition game versus the Czechoslovakia national team, George discounted reports dispatched from Prague and printed in the Daily Worker in London as exaggerated, and denied that Penticton's style of play was "thuggery-on-ice".

[8] He also criticized media in Canada for distorting the playing conditions in Europe and felt that players on Penticton had conducted themselves appropriately.