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Fisher, Eagleson get supportREGINA (CP) — The strong positions of chairman Doug Fisher of Hockey Canada and Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson as a negotiator for international hockey were reaffirmed Tuesday night by Iona Campagnolo, minister of state for fitness and amateur sport.She told the annual awards banquet of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association that Hockey Canada will receive almost $500,000 this year and next year to take control of development of a Canadian Olympic team and another $42,000 to send a team to the world junior championship next season in Sweden.Her speech was greeted with discontent by many of the 300 delegates at tiie CAHA annual meeting but president Gordon Renwick of Cambridge, Ont., who strongly recommends that Hockey Canada concentrate exclusively on professional hockey, refused to comment, saying “I have to look at the speech in detail.”A few hours earlier, Renwick repeated his long-.standing suggestion that the federal government remove Fisher as chairman and that Eagleson be given as much control as he wants over professional hockey with the CAHA left alone to run the sport from the junior level down to minor.Renwick said Eagleson has no interest in 95 per cent of the issues at most international hockey meetings. Eagleson, an agent for many players, ispresident of the National Hockey League Players’ Association.Renwick said Eagleson sat for about three hours during recent Prague meetings that lasted four days and admitted he was not interested in a lot of it.“That’s because the pros were not involved in the discussions,” said Renwick. “If Hockey Canada can get along with the pro leagues,fine—what else do they want?”He blamed Hockey Canada for a loss of at least $100,000 in the world junior tournament in Canada last Christmas and said it proved Eagleson—identified by Campagnolo as Canada’s sole negotiator for international hockey—has no interest in the amateur game.The Campagnolo speech was the final touch in a long day of meetings, plenary sessions and awards, highlighted by an announcement that Czechoslovakian hockey officials were interested in sending a midget team to tour Canada next season for the first time.CAHA executive-director David Branch said Soviet Union and Czechoslovak federations were also planning to send select or club teams to Canada next year.Austria, Poland and Japan have inquired about sending teams to Canada in 1978-79, while Poland, Japan, West Germany and Yugoslavia are interested in having Canadian teams tour those countries.Play Better Golf with JACK NICKLAUS©19/ti Jack Ntcktaui and Ken Bowden,,5aR-r ewcvlt;M -TV-AE‘mMANY GOOD
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Wed, May 24, 1978
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