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Monday, September 19, 1994
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Hockey agreement may be reached
NHL players could play in 1998 Olympics games international competition
By The Associated Press
TORONTO—NHLplayers might be skating in the 1998 Olympics and participating in international tournaments under a new agreement between the league and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
That's part of a three-year deal between the NHL and IIHF spelled out Friday that covers everything from Olympic participation to expanded international competitions to the joint formation of a European Super League and the orderly transfer of players across the Atlantic.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said hockey fans would benefit most from the deal.
"This is great news for all who care about hockey," Bettman said Friday in a news release from New York. "Working with the IIHF means stronger international events and support for hockey all over the world."
The Olympic plan still requires ratification by the NHL Players Associa
tion and gaining such approval will be part of the labor negotiations between the NHL and its players' union. The NHL and NHLPA met in New York on Friday and said negotiations would continue next week.
The Olympic plan is to have an eight-country pre-Olympic tournament in Canada in September 1997, with six teams qualifying for the Olympics.
In Nagano, Japan, there would be a two-tiered tournament. The first week would feature eight countries competing for two spots in a second round where they would join the six teams that qualified in September. Those eight would then form two four-team divisions, with the top two finishers from each advancing to the medal round.
The agreement between the NHL and IIHF was signed last week in Helsinki, Finland. Friday, the groups issued a joint news release detailing the various points of the wide-ranging pact.
IHF president Rene Fasel feels the highlight of the pact is the commitment to have NHL players at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
"This is an historic agreement and a very proud day for the IHF," Pasel
said from Switzerland. "We are going to work with the NHL for the benefit of hockey on a world level."
The agreement stated: "The NHL and IIHF will take all such steps as are necessary to cause the International Olympic Committee and the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee to schedule the Olympic hockey tournament in a way to ensure the participation of NHL players. The NHL and IIHF agree that in order to ensure the participation of NHL players, that portion of the Olympic tournament involving NHL players may not exceed eight days."
The IIHF-NHL pact also comms NHL teams to release players for the world championship unless there is a conflict with Stanley Cup playoffs, which traditionally has been the case. However, both sides say they are resolved to work together to avoid scheduling the world tournament at the same time as the NHL playoffs.
Sources say consideration is being given to moving the world championships into the Christmas-New Year's period, a slot currently occupied by the world junior championships. Another possibility is making it a September tournament.
Jimmy Fishbein / KANSAN
Kicking it up
Maintaining control of the ball, Kansas junior Fredlin Joseph, right, moves away from a Wichita State opponent. The KU varsity soccer club defeated the Shockers 3 to 1 yesterday at the YSI soccer complex.
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