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Reports: Fehr agrees to helm NHLPA Print
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 15:29
Donald Fehr has agreed to become the next executive director of the NHL Players' Association, according to multiple reports Wednesday.

The former head of the Major League Baseball Players' Association has served as an advisor to the NHLPA since he stepped down as the MLBPA's executive director in 2009. Liz Mullen of the SportsBusiness Journal was the first to report that Fehr had agreed to take the job.

During his 24-year tenure as the head of the MLBPA, Fehr saw the players through a strike that cancelled the 1994 World Series, and interrupted the beginning of the following season. He also received criticism – famously, before the United States Congress – for voicing the union's opposition to random testing for performance-enhancing drugs during what is now known as baseball's "Steroid Era." Fehr emerged from these battles with a reputation for taking a hard-line stance in favor of the players' various causes.

The NHLPA has been without an executive director since Paul Kelly was dismissed in August 2009.

Fehr would have to be approved by NHLPA members before he can officially take the job.

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