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Hockey Canada threatening to cancel outOTTAWA (CP) - Hockey Canada, ‘ in a running takUe with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association' over International negotiation rights,v has threatened to cancel agreements Involving neat year's Canada Cup and Moscow’s Iivestia tournament! -Hockey Canada wants the’ right to negotiate all international games by Canadian teams involving professionals and the CAHA wants sanction rights to games involving club teams. Torrance Wylie, Hockey Canada chairman, saidWednesday he will deal directly with the International Ice Hockey Feder-aiion (IMF), the world governing body, to renegotiate arrangements If the dispute is not resolvedduring meetings Saturday inToronto.• TTi? CAHA just completed a long battle with the World Hockey Association over development fees for underage junior signings.; The CAHA tad threatened to have. the UHF cancel a series of games between WHA and European teams.• Wylie said the 1979 commitments will be affected Immediately unless the CAHA honors an agreement signed June 27 stating that Hockey. Canada will sanction all international and professional: team invoWmenls.”'No one is disputing that the language June 71 accurately reflected agreement at that time, Wylie said.: The CAHA is.Gordon Renwick, CAHA . president, said that was a tentative agreement needing approval of the CAHA’s board of governors.Henwick said the board rejected the terms and they have to be renegotiated.' A. recent truce'enabled Hockey Canada to use one of the CAHA’s two seats on the UHF’s congress to ‘negotiate international games involving national teams. A new international four-year cycle was negotiated this fall in.Italy, guaranteeing Canada Cups in 1979 and 1962. '! The CAHA traditionally, negotiated international ' events until Hockey Canada was formed by the federal • government; several years ago. • „The CAHA, the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association and their player associations, and theCanadian Interuniversity Athletic Union are members of the umbrella organization but the CAHA has fought to retain some sanctioning rights. wWylie said Hockey Canada’s negotiating position on a na- ,n tioual team is undermined if the CAHA can lure away one * of the international par- Vticipanls for matches against u club teams. :“That’s pretty thir,” Reawick said. “Why don’t they try to get an agreement with the players’ associations?
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Thu, Nov 30, 1978
Page 27
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