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Hockey Canada SetsVictory Date At 1970By ALEXANDER FARRELLOTTAWA (CP) — Hockey Canada, a non-profit corporation, was formally established here Thursday night for the purpose of developing a national team to beat the Russians and bring the world hockey title back to this country.Health Minister John Munro, announcing the decision after a meeting with prominent business and sport executives, said the corporation will come into operation as of today.Mr. Munro and Max Bell, wealthy Calgary industrialist who was chosen president of Hockey Canada, indicated the corporation will seek the best Canadian players it can get for their team—regardless of how other authorities define their professional or amateur status.Ian Sinclair, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, agreed to head a financial committee and organize a fund-rais-ing drive this fall.Hockey Canada's target date for victory is next year, when tile world championship tournament will be held in this country and the national team will have, it is hoped, more players of professional calibre.Canada’s chances in the 1969 world tournament next month in Sweden, not rated highly, rest with the purely amateur national team run by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.“Our rules about amateurs and professionals are our own,” Mr. Bell said. He didn’t think the International Ice Hockey Federation would care, what Canadians play lor the- Canadian team in international competition.i **Why should they care?” he asked. He didn’t think IIHF leader J. F. (Bunny) Ahearne “has taken a very hard line with the Russian quasi-profcs-sionals.”“It rests with us finally, not with him.”Mr. Munro said be will recommend to the cabinet that financial contributions to Hockey Canada be made deductible from income tax.NHL clubs based in tile United |States, whose players are! mostly Canadian citizens, Mr. :Bell said: “I doubt it some-.how.” .I The talent question will come 'up at Hockey Canada’s next | meeting, scheduled for March 7 !in Toronto.David Molson and Stafford Smythe, presidents of the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs respectively, have both agreed to serve on the board of Hockey Canada.Mr. Munro told reporters no conclusions were reached as to where Hockey Canada will find better players for the national team. The big unsetLled question is what specific help the Montreal and Toronto NHL organizations will provide. .Mr. Bell said Mr. Smythe’s presence at the meeting indicated, however, that he and hisMontreal colleague are “ready to co-operate.”Asked whether Mr. Smythe was also .speaking for the 10Also to be settled is the total number of members on the corporation's board, most of whom will be nominated by the health minister.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, which will continue to hold Canada’s affili-ation with the international federation, will appoint two members.Others already appointed to Hie Hockey Canada board include Jack Hopwood, manager of tile Winnipeg-based national Learn; Rev. David Bauer, founder of the national team; Lou Lefaive of the national health department’s physical fitness branch, Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson, counsel for the NHL Players Association; John Win-termeyer, former Ontario Liberal leader, and Maurice Regim-bal of the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Federation.RUSSELL'SIMMEDIATE DELIVERYof the FabulousPLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Feb 21, 1969
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