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CAHA’s president blasts Eagle, FisherREGINA (CP) — Gordon Renwick of Cambridge, Ont., president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, saichMonday the most unpleasant part of his job is dealing with Hockey-Canada.In his opening remarks to the first plenary session of the CAHA annual meeting. Renwick said he is unhappy with the way Hockey Canada functions and even more unhappy with the way the organization has been managed.“Bluntly, I haven't enjoyed any part of my Hockey Canada involvement, said Renwick, about to enter his second lerm as CAHA president. He expressed the hope the CAHA directorate to be elected here this week can help Improve conditions.The CAHA has declared Toronto lawyer and agent Al Eagleson, president of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, “a dictator, and has asked several times for the resignation of Douglas Fisher as Hockey Canada chairman.Gordon Juckes, retiring execulivc-director of the CAHA, said his organization considers . Fisher to be biased in favor of professional hockey interests at the expense of other segments of the sport.“Our suggestions that Fisher be removed have not been acted on, said Juckes. “There’s no reason to expect the government to listen to us.Eagleson said last year he would quit his position as a Hockey Canada official if notnamed sole negotiator for international hockey. Shortly afterwards, the organization's international committee was disbanded and Eagleson given total control.“1 told (Senator) Sidney Buckwold’s committee on hockey that Hockey Canada should be called Hockey Eagleson, said Juckes. “He gets his own way in everything. It’s a harmful situation.”Juckes said Hockey Canada has created a vacuum in dealing with professional hockey because the National Hockey League attends meetings only as an observer and refuses to get involved while the World Hockey Association refuses to attend meetings.WIIA officials insist Eagleson refuses to give the league a fair share of lucrative international games, leaving the WHA to negotiate its own agreements without Hockey Canada approval.“I think it's dangerous to get governments involved in a sport to the extent that a governing body cannot operate, said Juckes. “It has happened to the CAHA in many ways.”For example “anytime we state a position on a matter, we’re instantly faced with a union of Eagleson's pros and the federal government’s representatives.“If we can't get something reasonable settled in hockey to resolve this situation, I‘m sure every other sport, professional and amateur, can wind up with the same or similar problems.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, May 23, 1978
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