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Czechs pondering Nedved's futureCALGARY (CP) — It is unlikely the Czechoslovakian Ice Hockey Federation will grant defector Peter Nedved an international release so he can play hockey in Canada, a Czech official said Tuesday.“1 don’t know their decision yet but I expect them to decide to suspend him,” Karel Zoubek, headof the Czechoslovakian embassy, said in a telephone interview from Ottawa. “He breached his obligation towards his team. I would be surprised if they would let him walk away like that.”Nedved, 17, defected in Calgary in January after leading his Litvinov team to the championship of the Mac’s major midget tour-nment. He failed to show up at Calgary International Airport for a flight home.The Czech hockey federation met Sunday to decide if they would give Nedved his international release.Zoubek said he expects to learn of the federation’s decision thisweek.Gord Renwick, vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, said the release is mandatory for all players who wish to play outside their homeland.“For the (Canadian Amateur Hockey Association) to remain good members of the IHF it wouldhave to honor that suspension or refusal of transfer,” Renwick said from his office in Cambridge, Ont. “But if the team could build a case and get an injunction from a judge, the association couldn’t go against the laws of the land.”Renwick doubted there would be any retaliations internationally if a judge ordered Nedved could play hockey in Canada.“The IHF is aware you can’t go against the laws of the land,” he saidIf Nedved is granted political asylum he could stay in Canada but could not play hockey under an IHF rule that requires a player to sit out for 18 months before he is allowed to get an international transfer.Hal Lewis, executive director of the CAHA in Ottawa, said the association would not fight the case if Nedved went to court and sought a restraining order against the IHF rule.“We’ve told the AAHA if there is an application for a restraining order or an injunction don’t fight it,” Lewis said. “Let it be a default judgment.“Don’t spend $2,000 defending the action because the courts are just going to look at it and decide who’s going to suffer the most here, the kid or this big, big, big association. They’ll find in favor of the kid, and so be it. ”
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Brandon Sun
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Wed, Feb 15, 1989
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