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PublishedThe Greater Toronto Hockey League has opened multiple investigations into allegations that some teams and the non-profit companies that run them have been inappropriately bought and sold, executive director Scott Oakman said.
"Due to the nature of these particular allegations and potential legal implications, and to avoid jeopardizing the investigative process, the GTHL will not be disclosing any further details at this time," Oakman wrote. Don Mills Flyers president Peter MacInnis, one of the few team officials who was willing to speak on the record, said in an interview that he believes the GTHL is facing a crisis.
A source told TSN that Ontario government staffers are informally reviewing the GTHL’s business and determining whether Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Neil Lumsden has jurisdiction to scrutinize the league’s teams. Lumsden declined to comment. “Each year, when a club or division applies for membership in the GTHL, it must submit to the GTHL its annual return filed with the [Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery], a current list of its members, directors and officers, its annual financial statements, a declaration that it operates as a non-profit organization and certain other documentation in accordance with the GTHL’s published regulations,” Oakman wrote.
“We went for coffee. They showed me what the new lineup was going to be, with a few kids literally benched for two of three periods, and they told me to take it up with our owner if I had an issue, which I did,” the coach said. “I asked my owner how he was going to explain this to the GTHL and he told me he wouldn’t have to because it was an all-cash deal, all off the books.”
Florida Panthers forward Anthony Duclair, who is also a member of the HDA, also called for financial transparency from GTHL organizations. MacInnis said some of the GTHL’s AAA organizations generate significant revenue. The Toronto Marlboros, for instance, in most years host two major tournaments – a pre-season Friendship Tournament in October and a Holiday Classic Tournament over the Christmas break. The Marlboros said on their website that 88 teams played in the Holiday Classic event this year and paid entry fees of as much as $2,400 per team.
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