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Hockeymen PrepareFor-May MeetingMONTREAL (CP — The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association's annual meeting is sebMulcd for St. John's, Nfld, in May and if weekend meetings Iwre are any indication, the -affair will 3iave a full agenda. . Twenty TepreseoUtives from the CAHA^s It branches • includ-ij|g members «t its five reglonsi aooes and chairmen of the Junior, Mxuor and minor hockey coun-lt;nl5-inet Id formulate and study a number of recommendations that require the alUntion of the St. John’s gathering..lt;' Under discussion were a eha^e lit Junior age limits, a ^vised formula to up grad^ Allan Cup competition and an effort by the muior hockey council to arrive at some degree of. cross^Tanada cuitistency to govera administration, playing stiles end touniemeiits by the undcr«junior age groups.Earlier this mouth, the British Columbia and AlberU Junior Hockey Leagues announced that they plan to rauc tha jujtior age limit by cKie year in their leagues next season.FREAK PISHDULUTH - Three humpbacked salmon, natives of iht Pacific coast, turned up in the Lake Superior catches during the early i960 season.Jack Devine of Belle vjlle Ont., a CAHA vice-president and chairman of llie junioi* council, said the current pro-amateur agreoment signed three years ago with the National Hockoy League does not expire until 1972.Uuder the agi-eemont tiic current age limit fbr juniors' is under 20 as nf Dec. 31 of any playing season. The Western proposal wouid extent this limit to under 3i as oC Dec. 31 of the playing year.Gordon Juckes of Winnipeg, executive director of the CAHA, said the pro-am flgreemet is subject to review thu year and lie expects to meet NHL president Clarence Campbell on the subject before Hie nwt amateur' draft in’ Jone. The junior age limit will be one of the subjects discussed.Devine said the junior council also is studying a reclassification oC junior hockey leagues, as there now exists a dilferonce in capability between junior teams in various parts of tlie country.Henri Crochetierc of SherbrookOf Quo., a CAll.A vice-prcsklcnf and clvtlrman of the senior council, said the annual meeting will hear a recommendation that the formula of Allan Cup plnyoff8 be revised.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Feb 09, 1970
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