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New CAHA presidentlooks to juniorCHARLOTTETOWN (CP) — “Internationally, I think our future lies in junior hockey,” said Jack Devine, after he was elected Thursday to succeed Joe Kryczka of Calgary as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA).Devine, a veteran Belleville, Ont., radio sportscaster, said “there are so many professional teams now it is tough for us to compete, but I am confident our junior teams can do so on an equitable basis.“I am not going to get in a name-calling contest with anybody,” Devine said, “but the CAHA is prepared to cooperate with any hockey group if it is also prepared to accept the fact that cooperation is a two-way street,” he said.Other officers elected: Don S. Johnson of St. John’s, Nfld., first vice-president; Gordon Renwick of Cambridge, Ont., vice-president of senior and intermediate series; Roland Mercier of Quebec City, vice-president of junior hockey; T. B. McCormack of Thunder Bay, Ont., vice-president of minor hockey; and Walter Clark of Grand Falls, Nfld., senior director.Delegates attending Thursday’s plenary session were told by executive director Gordon Juckes of Ottawa that the association is being deluged with invitations to Canadian teams to participate in tournaments abroad.Juckes said invitations and requests to play in Canada had been received from Sweden, Poland, Finland, France and Yugoslavia in addition to several from Russia.Kryczka, commenting on a bid from Russia to have a Canadian team compete in itsGolden Puck tournament in March, said “this is a significant breakthrough in international relations.”Juckes said the French Ice Hockey Federation hopes to arrange a six-game series with teams of intermediate calibre in the Montreal area in February.He suggested if Polish and Yugoslavian teams come to Canada, one should play in the East and the other in the West.The CAHA’s national office is also discussing an exchange of midget teams with Russia in February, McCormack said.In other business Thursday, a request from the Quebec delegation to have the national body cede Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., districts to the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association was deferred.QAHA President Roger Plouffe of Trois-Rivieres said, “our branch has tried to reach an agreement but it was not satisfactory, so we agreed to defer the issue until June.”Also deferred to the June meeting of the board of directors was a proposal by the QAHA calling for a halt to all players transfers from Quebec to Ontario.“We feel the transfer regulations are being abused,” Plouffe said.The CAHA approves transfer of a junior player from Quebec to Ontario only if he moves with his parents.But there have been cases where the parents moved to an Ontario city for a few weeks, then returned to Quebec soon after a transfer had been obtained.Plouffe said he hopes Quebec can gain jurisdiction over the Ottawa and Gatineau districts to offset complaints from his province’s officialshockeyand members of the public that some Quebec hockey players are not playing under QAHA jurisdiction.Kryczka announced he will lift the indefinite suspension of Bill Reddick of Rosetown Red Wings of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association.Kryczka, who took disciplinary action after a stick-swinging incident during the national intermediate A finals, said Reddick had been incorrectly identified in the referee’s report.Humboldt Broncos from the Saskatchewan branch—was suspended indefinitely for defaulting its Centennial Cup playoff series to Portage la Prairie Terriers, who eventually won the championship.Humboldt officials had accused Portage players of “rough and vicious tactics and deliberate attempt to injure” and refused to continue the series.Judge Hanson T. Dowell of Middleton, N.S., Lionel Fleury of Quebec City, Fred Page of Vancouver, and Earl Dawson of Winnipeg, all past presidents, were appointed life members.The association approved a recommendation from its ref-eree-in-chief, Hugh McLean of London, that all referees and linesmen wear helmets. However, it is not mandatory.McLean said officials are more vulnerable to injury than players, “especially in this age of the wild slapshot.” The association, at the behest of the rules committee, outlawed aluminum hockey sticks that have recently come on the market.The plenary session accepted an invitation from the Quebec branch to be host for the 1975 annual meeting in Montreal.
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Fri, May 25, 1973
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