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Canada's hockey team will still be also-ransBy MELSl’FRIN CP Sports EditorTORONTO (CP) — Canada is almost certain to send ateam to the world hockey*championship in Prague in April, but it probably won’t be any better than the team (hal finished fourth in Vienna Iasi year.What's more, there is no prospect of any change in the scheduling of the world championship that would permit Canada to be represented by anything but a team of also-rans.A decision to send a team to Prague, provided sponsorship money can be raised, was made at a meeting of Hockey Canada’s board of directors Thursday.It marked the return to the role of chief negotiator for Alan Eagleson. who resigned last month as chairman of Hockey Canada’s international committee because of what he said was undue interference from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. That committee was abolished Thursday.Gordon Renwick, (’AHA president, said in a prepared release he could not find a “single instance of (’AHA meddling in Hockey Canada’s affairs.Eagleson, a Toronto lawyer who is also executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, agreed to accept the job after getting Hockey Canada and the CAHA to agree that he would also be represented on the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) that handles discipline and other arrangements for the world hockey championship.“If the world championships are going to be held in April, we won’t have our best players there, Eagleson said. “And I don’t think they’ll ever change the world championship concept He added that his first job will be to try to rearrange television schedules so that such sponsors as General Motors and Carling-O’Keefe will agree to come up with the $300,000 to $400,000 needed to send a team to Prague.Then he will get the NHL, the World Hockey Association and their players’ associations to agree to send players from teams that either miss the playoffs or are eliminated in theNHL’s first round.Within 30 days. Hockey Canada would come up with a set of proposals for the IIHF and they would be taken to Europe by Eagleson, Hockey Canada chairman Douglas Fisher and Renwick.The decision on whether to send a team to the 1979 world championship in Moscow would depend on acceptance of those proposals.Iona Campagnolo, minister of state, fitness and amateur sport, presented a report suggesting that the world championship be downgraded to a European championship and that the NHL and WHA suspend play in mid-January to permit Canada and the United States to send their top pros to a world championship against the firstand second-place finisher in the previous year’s European tournament.Campagnolo further proposed that no decision be made to send a team to Prague until her ideas were accepted in principle and that no commitment be made on Moscow until the package was agreed to by all parties.SKATESHARPENINGFINNIC TIRE CENTRE514 S. Railway St., S.E.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Fri, Feb 17, 1978
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