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by Paul on 08/15/08 at 07:45 AM ET
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from Evan Weiner at the NY Sun,
There is a scheduled meeting on September 4 in New York where representatives from the NHL, the KHL, and other ice hockey federations that is supposed to tackle issues such as the transfer agreements and the logistics of holding a hockey World Cup in 2012, but NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly isn’t so sure the league should be at the meeting.
“We are not certain we are going to go forward with the meeting at this point. Our position with the IIHF has been very clear. If the KHL doesn’t disqualify Alexander Radulov from playing in their league so he can abide to his contractual obligations to Nashville, we have no interest in meeting with them and or engaging in discussions over any broader cooperative relationship with them,” Daly told The New York Sun.
from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,
A previously secret meeting in Italy on Wednesday between Gary Bettman and KHL president Alexander Medvedev not only failed to broker a resolution on Alexander Radulov’s contractual situation, but rather ended with the parties an ocean apart on a working agreement, The Post has learned….
When Bettman threatened legal action, Medvedev essentially invited the commissioner to present his case in Russian court, reminding the commissioner that the NHL success rate in the Russian legal system is equal to the zero-percent success rate of Russian hockey interests in the US court system.
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A very simple and quite powerful solution to this would be for the NHL to enact a strict policy that:
1. If a player violates their contract to play in a foreign hockey league, they are banned from returning to the NHL for the remainder of their careers, or possibly something like 10 years. That would make young players think twice about jumping ship for quick foreign money.
2. Those players should be sent a bill and pursued in some loose formal manner to pay up for violating their contract; especially if they return to our country.
Two things that are easy to implement, and better than nothing…
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 08/15/08 at 10:54 AM ET