Question: What countries are on the northern border the nation for which Simon Gamache plays ice hockey?

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. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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.  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 .  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 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. <SEP> 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).