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WINNIPEG FREE PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 28, IMS*Ai3rNHLVICTOHTA (CP) — National Hockey Luruo teams arc creating “depressed areas (or hockey in Canada. The president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association dcclnrcd Thursday night.Lionel Ficury of Quebec said In an Interview following the CAHA's annual meeting here that NHL teams are interested only Jit developing the top players.••We’re Interested in developing 200,000 players.NHL clubs through sponsor-shlp of amateur teams were funnelling the best players Into n few powerful Junior A clubs, meanwhile reducing fan Interest in towns deprived of their local stars.•They love their number one attraction. Floury said. How do you think Montreal would feel if they sold their Bclliveausand Henri Richards?”The executive of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association was re-elected unanimously at the final day of the association’s annual meeting.Second terms in office were given president Lionel Fleury, Quebec; first vice-presidentCreatingFred Page, Pori Arthur, and second vice-president Lloyd Pollock of Windsor* Ont.Gordon Juckcs of Melville, Sask., was reappointed sccre-tory-managcr and Art Potter of Edmonton remains pest president.Executives said that no names have been discussed as a possible coach-manoger for Canada's national hockey team.They denied reports that Larry Regan, a former National Hockey League player wlm has coached hockey teams in Austria in recent years, would be named to the job.There have been no names brought up at all, said Gordon Juckcs. We only got permis-Depressed Areas%slon in hire a coach yesterday.Meantime the association imposed a $4,400 penalty on the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League for its delay in starting a Memorial cup playoff this spring.New Westminster It o y a 1 s were kept wailing eight days while the SJHL finished a six-team league playoff.Itegina Pals won the SJHL and went on to defeat New Westminster,C A H A a ccrctary-managcr Gordon Juckcs said the $4,400 assessed against Saskatchewan will bc^ paid to the B..C. Amateur Hockey Association to compensate for the cost of delaying the scries.The CAHA -Students Association has approved affiliation with Ihe Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union, representinguniversity hockey players across Canada,It would require similar approval from the CIAU before going into cffecL A committee was established to negotiate a new player transfer agreement with the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States.The CAHA voted to end the present agreement last January because the pact allowed the AHAUS to sign players from CAHA leagues without paying transfer fees or getting league permission.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, May 28, 1965
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