The IIHFcontinues to condone the poaching of NHLers by the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia.
Jiri Hudler Remains In Limbo
Rene Fasel, the pliant head of the International Ice Hockey Federation, has indicated that the IIHF will give Jiri Hudler his transfer card regardless of the feelings of USA Hockey so that he can begin playing for Dynamo Moscow of the KHL:
“We’ll give the American side some space, so they can explain their reasons for their unwillingness to confirm the transfer card,” the Russian RIA Novosti news agency quotes Fasel as saying. “If we see the reasons are not that important, we’ll give him the card ourselves.”This despite Hudler having filed for arbitration as a restricted free agent, which would require him to play at least one more year for the Detroit Red Wings. Fasel himself recognizes that his organization is to blame as the precedent was set with the poaching of Alexander Radulov despite a contract with the Nashville Predators:
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