The Irish national ice hockey team (Irish: "Foireann haca oighir náisiúnta na hÉireann" ) is the national ice hockey team of the Republic of Ireland run by the Irish Ice Hockey Association and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) since 26 September 1996.
 Ireland gained promotion to Division II of the IIHF in 2007, but after a poor performance in their Division II debut, the team has been relegated to Division III.
 They have not played in a world championship since placing 4th with 6 points in 2013.
 With the closure of the Dundalk Ice Dome and they no longer meet their minimum participation standards.
 The team had members from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and has a working relationship with the Belfast Giants of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) and new Irish clubs, Flyers Ice Hockey Club and Dundalk Bulls.
The Flyers Cup is an annual high school ice hockey tournament held by the Philadelphia Flyers.
 The invitational tournament is the scholastic hockey championship for eastern Pennsylvania high schools and is conducted through three tiers of play, AAA, AA, and A with AAA representing private schools, AA large public schools and A small public schools based on male student enrollment.
 There are 53 participating teams consisting of 13 AAA, 20 AA, and 20 A chosen from teams participating in the following leagues: the Eastern High School Hockey League, the Inter-County Scholastic Hockey League, the Lehigh Valley Scholastic Hockey League, the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League, the South Jersey High School Ice Hockey League, the Suburban High School Hockey League, and the Central Pennsylvania Ice Hockey League.
 Teams are invited to participate based on their skill level as demonstrated by the strength of their overall schedule and season performance.
 The winner of the Flyers Cup at each tier level plays the respective western champion as determined by the Penguins Cup, held by the Pittsburgh Penguins, for the Pennsylvania State High School Ice Hockey Championship.
Ryne Andrew Sanborn (born February 3, 1989) is an American architect, ice hockey player and former actor.
 He is best known for his role as Jason Cross in the "High School Musical" films.
 In 2008 he retired from acting to focus in architecture.
 He plays ice hockey from Salt Lake's Outliers.
The Australian women's national ice hockey team represents Australia at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships.
 The women's national team is controlled by Ice Hockey Australia.
 As of 2011, Australia has 313 female players.
 Australia is ranked 25th out of 34 countries in the IIHF World Ranking.
 In September 2015, an announcement was made on the Ice Hockey Australia website that Canadian Lindsay McAlpine will be the new head coach of the Australian women's national ice hockey team, replacing Lee Brown due to health and work reasons.
 Lee Brown held the position since 2014.
 Lindsay McAlpine is expected to join the team for their first training camp in December.
The Newcastle Northstars are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL).
 The team plays its home games at the Hunter Ice Skating Stadium (nicknamed 'HISS') in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie located about 15 kilometres south-west of Newcastle, New South Wales.
 The Northstars are six times winners of the AIHL and with it, the historic Goodall Cup in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015, and 2016.
 The team is affiliated with the Newcastle Northstars Ice Hockey Club, Ice Hockey New South Wales and Ice Hockey Australia.
Austria ( ; German: "Österreich" ] ), officially the Republic of Austria (German: "Republik Österreich" ,    ), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe.
 It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
 The territory of Austria covers 83879 km2 .
 The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m , and its highest point is 3798 m .
 The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language.
 Other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.
Angela Frautschi (born 5 June 1987) is a Swiss female ice hockey player.
 She is a member of the Switzerland women's national ice hockey team.
 She played in the 2006 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
 She also competed for ZSC Lions Zurich in the Leistungsklasse A (the top women's ice hockey league in Switzerland).
 In 2014 Frautschi accompanied the Swiss women's Ice Hockey Team to Sochi for the Winter Olympics.
 Largely thought to have an outside chance at best to win a medal, Switzerland shocked Sweden in a remarkable 4-3 come from behind victory in the Bronze Medal Match, giving both Frautschi and her Swiss teammates their first ever Olympic Medal in Women's Ice Hockey History, and the countries first medal in Ice Hockey since the men won Bronze at home way back in 1948 at St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Martin Koukal (] ) (born September 25, 1978 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech cross-country skier and mountaineer who has been competing since 1996.
 He won two medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with gold in 50 km (2003) and a bronze in the team sprint (2005).
 Koukal's best finish at the Winter Olympics was a seventh in the 50 km freestyle mass start in 2006.
 He also won eight other events in his career from 1998 to 2005 in distances up to 15 km.
 He has some mountaineering successes, like his Cho Oyu, Huascarán and Kangchenjunga expeditions.
 His younger brother, Petr, plays ice hockey for HC Pardubice in Czech Extraliga and in 2010 also became world champion of his own.
Simon Gamache (born January 3, 1981) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL).
The Mercyhurst Lakers, representing Mercyhurst University which is located in Erie, Pennsylvania, are composed of 24 teams in intercollegiate athletics, including men's and women's basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, tennis, and water polo.
 Men's sports include baseball, football, and wrestling.
 Women's sports include field hockey, softball, and volleyball.
 The Lakers compete in the NCAA Division II and are members of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) for all sports except ice hockey, which competes in NCAA Division I, and water polo, a sport in which the NCAA holds single all-divisions national championships for men and women.
 The men's ice hockey team is a member of Atlantic Hockey, while the women's ice hockey team is a member of College Hockey America.
 The men's water polo team plays in the Collegiate Water Polo Association, and the women's water polo team plays in the Western Water Polo Association.

Question: What countries are on the northern border the nation for which Simon Gamache plays ice hockey?
Answer: Czech Republic and Germany