NHL, IIHF extend transfer agreements
The NHL has prolonged its player-movement pacts with many of the governing hockey bodies in Europe and North America.
The moves include a one-year extension of the existing transfer agreements with all IIHF member federations and leagues in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
As a result, NHL clubs can now ink European players in accordance with the relevant transfer rules.
Additionally, the league hammered out a new one-year transfer agreement with the Swiss Ice Hockey Association and the Swiss League, and a one-year extension of its existing deal with the Canadian Hockey League and its constituent organizations, the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL.
Several signings had been on hold pending the finalization of these terms.
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