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REGINA (CP) — The Canadian Major JuniorHockey League will operate as an independent organization for the 1966-67 season in defiance of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association’s refusal last Sunday to recognize the league, it was announced today.Frank Boucher, CMJHL commissioner, in a prepared statement issued after a day-long meeting lere Wednesday between executives of the seven junior clubs in the new league, confirmed the league will open its schedule Friday night.Because of the CAHA decision the CMJHL wasnot acceptable, “the league is compelled to operate and will operate as an independent group.’’ Boucher said.“Each club in the CMJHL—Weyburn. Estevan. Moose Jaw, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calgary—properly applied to their respective provincial branches for permission to particiate in the CMJHL. The two provincial branches involved, the Saskatchewan and Alberta amateur hockey associations, correctly approved the organisation of the league under CAHA regulation section three G9.“The clubs had been previously advised by Fred Page of North Vancouver, CAHA president, Lloyd Pollock of Windsor. CAHA first vice-president, and Gordon Juckes of Melville, CAHA secretary-man-ager, that the branches had sole right to approvethe formation of the CMJHL under the regulations.Boucher said when the branch approvals were received the league then was properly constituted but the CAHA executive committee, in reversing the decision of the two branches, “ignored the regulations of the CAHA.“The CAHA decision discriminatf s against clubs in Alberta and Saskatchewan by refusing them the right to form an inter-branch league while at the same time permitting other junior and senior clubs in other branches to participate in inter - branch leagues.The statement referred to the operation, with CAHA sanction, of the Ontario Junior Hockey League which embraces teams from Ontario and Quebec, the Maritimes Junior Hockey League with teams from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the Western Canada Senior League with Alberta and Saskatchewan teams and the Western International League which has teams from British Columbia and Washington.“The CMJHL member clubs make it. clear that while they will operate independently they willcontinue to honor all obligations to the two provincial branches concerned,” Boucher said in the statement.The hassle between the CAHA and the CMJHL developed when the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, with teams from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, dissolved in June and five SJHL clubs enteredthe CMJHL.The CAHA executive committee Sunday directed the SAHA to continue to operate the SJHL with the same members as last season and ruled that during the 1966-67 season no league would be formed that would include teams from both Alberta and Saskatchewan.The CMJHL schedule opens Friday with three games. Plans call for a 56-game schedule for each of the seven teams.
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Oct 06, 1966
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