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Olive Branch Extended To NHL By KHL & IIHF
by Paul on 09/06/08 at 02:31 PM ET
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from Ken Campbell of the Hockey News,
In a stunning turn of events, the Kontinental Hockey League and International Ice Hockey Federation appear to have extended an olive branch to the NHL, which may ultimately lead to a thaw in the frigid relations between the KHL and the NHL.
“We have gone with an open hand to the NHL,” KHL president Alexander Medvedev told thn.com in a telephone interview Saturday. “We are hoping to get a positive reaction from the NHL.”
added 5:35pm, Ken Campbell has adjusted the story from above, adding a comment from Bill Daly.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in the Radulov case, the IIHF, “lacked the courage and conviction to do what’s right,” by not ordering Radulov to fulfill the final year of his contract with the Nashville Predators. Despite still being under contract to the Predators, Radulov signed a three-year deal worth $13 million with Salavat Ufa of the KHL and has already appeared in several games.
“The facts couldn’t be more clear,” Daly said in an email to thn.com. “But instead of revealing what (the IIHF’s) investigation actually found – which is that Radulov is under contract to Nashville and should be playing there this season - they pulled the chute and took the easy way out. Very, very disappointing. Its seems that the KHL is making decisions for the IIHF these days.”
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I’m shocked… shocked, I say… that an international federation would elect to side with a non-US affiliate over a US affiliate.
Look, if that’s the way the KHF wants it, hooray for them. The NHL should just refuse to recognize KHF contracts as viable in retaliation, at least until the KHF gets it.
If the IIHF doesn’t like it, screw them also. The NHL should refuse to allow it’s players to participate in the Olympics on general principle anyway, but if it pokes the IIHF in the eye, all’s the better.
Seriously, does the IIHF even matter? At all? If the NHL came out tomorrow and said ‘You know what? Screw everybody. We don’t recognize any deals but the ones on our letterhead. Put that in your pipes and smoke it, world.’ Would the IIHF have any legitimate recourse outside of US courts?
They don’t have a standing army or anything, right?
Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/06/08 at 07:49 PM ET