President of the Russian Hockey Federation (RFH) Vladislav Tretiak told that if a league leaves the auspices of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF), the hockey players playing there will not have the right to play at the World Championships and Olympics.
Earlier, reported that in the fall of 2023, the KHL developed draft amendments to the Federal Law on Sports of the Russian Federation and a number of other regulatory legal acts in order to withdraw from the auspices of the FHR and, consequently, the IIHF, but at the moment the initiative has not been approved.
— Is there a movement to give the KHL the status of an independent league?
— There have been some conversations, but I can’t say anything concrete on this issue. We have good relations with the KHL, we are members of the IIHF. But the IIHF is always adamant about such initiatives. They only recognize the NHL, and the NHL was born at the same time as the international federation. This is therefore a separate case.
At one point we tried to leave (under the auspices of the IIHF), but René Fasel stopped all that. Because Russia will come out today, Finland and Sweden tomorrow. What will the international federation be responsible for? This is membership in the federation which organizes the world championships. If the league withdraws, hockey players will not have the right to participate in the World Championships or the Olympics, because they are not under the auspices of the international federation. There are international rules that must be respected.
To this day, I can’t say anything. Yes, such thoughts and documents exist, but there is nothing concrete.
— If the KHL obtained such a status, what advantages could there be?
“If it happens, we will talk about it,” Tretyak told .
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