An overture for an NHL expansion franchise, supposedly made on behalf of the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation, has been rejected by the league as unworkable.

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Ramon Dacyshyn, executive vice president of Intercan Sports Inc., made the proposal to league president John Ziegler and NHL Players Association executive director Alan Eagleson last month.Under the plan, a team stocked exclusively with Soviet players would compete in the NHL as a 22nd franchise. He said it would divide its home games between Moscow and a North American city - either Seattle or Hamilton, Ontario - and playing the standard 40 away games.

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