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Hockey players t talk business

So you thought that Monday night win by the —
Canadiens, their fourth straight Stanley Cup, was
the end of the hockey season? You're wrong. : It
resumes in less than two weeks.

The NHL Players’

Association kicks off the-

next-phase June 4 and 5 with
its annual. meeting in the
‘Bahamas. One week after

that the league has its annual -

meeting in ~ Montreal.
Featured will be the ex-
pansion draft, the means by
which new rosters will be
supplied Winnipeg, Ed-
monton, Quebec City- and
New England Whalers.

‘However;
draft, usually conducted at
the same time, likely. will be
pushed back to August.

_ Then, in mid-September,

training camps for the new
season will open.

“So, if you wish to be quite ©

technical about the never-
ending presence of the old
winter pastime, July will be
the only month of the
current year
hockey or hocky business is
not being conducted.

In case you're interested,
the just concluded season --
from opening game until
final playoff ‘game ~— lasted
not quite 32 weeks. It fell
two days short. Include
training camp and exhibition
games and it was a 35-week
season.

Little wonder the players’
asséciation wishes to cut
eight games out of the 80-
game schedule and is willing
to take a 10 per cent pay cut
to match.

. This will be a major topic
when the club represen-
tatives get together in
Nassau a few days from now.
_But THE major topic will be
the collective agreement
with the NHL and the
possibility of a player strike
next fall.

In a pastime where the
average -ay packet’ is
$96,000 a year, it’s difficult
to think of players as trade
unionists, fighting for a
better deal from the kindly

VIKING

the amateur

in which.

head off to the Bahamas to
hold a union meeting.

- But now that the players
are in the chips; thanks to
the Seven Years’ War, they
can afford exotic meeting
places. They haye passed
motions next door to
championship-golf courses in
Spain. They have pounded
out policy on cruise © ships i in
mid-Atlantic.

the Seven
ended.
the time it

However,
Years’ War
weekend. In
lasted, the

World Association jumped

the average pay packet from ~

$30,000 to that previously
mentioned $96,000.

_ So, Operation Bahamas
will concern . itself with
devising strategy and tactics

to keep the wage level intact. .

in the new monopoly >
situation.
Failing that, the player

reps will be looking for a~-
new collective agreement

which will facilitate freer
movement of players from
one club to another. Arfree
agent situation, as in
baseball, would set up
bidding for payers’ services
within the league as a
substitute for the bidding
between the two leagues.

The first problem will be
to terminate the present
collective agreement, which
has two years to run, and
substitute a new one,

The current agreement
includes a clause which says.
it will be voided in the event
of merger between the NHL
and the WHA. Players’
Association boss Alan
Eagleson claims the ac-
commodation between the
two leagues is a clear case of
merger. A new agreement
must be drawn up.

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Not so, according to NHL
president John Ziegler. The

addition. of four teams from
- WHA cities is an:expansion, .
_ ‘not a merger. The WHA:
". agreed té go out of business.

boss. Especially when they

The NHL voted ‘for another
expansion to. bring ‘in the
four new cities.. Therefore

the. collective agreement is
not affected. It must run its
‘course, ,

What’ s going on right now,.~

then, is a battle of semantics.
But if the league hangs tough -
and refuses to renegotiate
the collective agreement,

_ words could escalate into a

player strike. If so, it will be

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the first in more than 50

years,

The -only other. ‘one took
place in 1925 and it finished
majer league. hockey in

- Hamilton. A team:called the

Tigers -: ‘represented the
Ontario steel city and
“finished i in first place that
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Led by a forward named

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' their contracts specified that
they were being paid for a
30-game

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“Therefore, they demanded
‘ another $200 a man for the

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League president. Frank
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Not only did the league
governors “kill the strike.

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They killed off Hamilton as.

an NHL city by shifting the
franchise to New York. The
team was purchased for
'$75,000 by a bigtime
“Prohibition _ bootlegger
named Bill Dwyer, and
renamed the Americans. .

. Green moved to New
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more strikes. The Americans
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maker: collegiate basketball. ~~

- However, your. agent
digresses. There was no well-
heeled players’ union in
those days. Today. there is
and every performer in the
league is a member. A full
‘union shop, so to speak. So,
in the crunch, if there is a
crunch, it will have much
“more clout than Green ‘and
, company.

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- Eagleson is tough and
shrewd: and _ used to getting

his way. Inasmuch as most of

the NHL is located in the .
United. States, he -won't

hesitate to invoke U.S. anti-

trust legislation on behalf of

his Gucci-shod hockey

~~ workers. ;

“Having had enough of
lawyers and mountainous .
legal costs in its seven-year
fight with the WHA, the .
NHL isn’t likely to embark -
on a new war against the
players’ union.

Look for a_ revised
agreement. in which com-
pensation for frée agent
Signings will be cash. and/or
draft choices instead of
players. For clubs willing to
lay out money to obtain
established players on the
move, it could be a big leap
towards competitive parity;
towards giving the
Canadiens a better run for
the Stanley Cup than the
Rangers managed during the
past two weeks.

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