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Best pros may playOTTAWA (CP) - Canada’s best professional hockey players may be playing in major international tournaments by 1980, Douglas Fisher, chairman of Hockey Canada, said Tuesday.Fisher said the International Ice Hockey Federation is willing to compromise on a schedule of events “that will make some sense of competition at the top level.”But Fisher warned that unless a compromise is reached this year Canada will not compete in the 1979 world championship in Moscow.Fisher, Alan Eagleson, Hockey Canada’s chief negotiator, and Gordon Renwick, executive-director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association,' met IIHF officials in Amsterdam during the weekend.Fisher said the IIHF is prepared to hold the world championship every second year instead of annually and to recognize the Canada Cup.“That would mean having the world tournament every second year and the Canada Cup every third or fourth year.”The Canada Cup would be sanctioned by the IIHF but the federation wouldn’t run it, Fisher said.“The IIHF gave us every assurance they would achieve a cycle we could live with,” Fisher said.For the world championship in Vienna last year and for this year’s competition in Prague, Canada has been restricted to sending players whose teams failed to make the playoffs.“We’ve got to have the compromise until the timing problems can be cleared away,” Fisher said.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Wed, Mar 01, 1978
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