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# And it is further mutually agreed that any disputes arising as to the interpretation of this Agreement or the facts upon which such interpretation is made, shall be settled by an Arbitration Board of three, one member to be appointed by each of the parties, and the third to be selected by the two appointees. The decision of the Arbitration Board shall be final.{{sfn|Podnieks|2004|p=5}}

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Nevertheless, the NHL came under pressure to allow its champion to play the WHA champion. Eventually, following the establishment of the [[Canada Cup]] as the first ''best-on-best'' international hockey tournament, NHL President Clarence Campbell (who was a vocal opponent of the tournament) made public overtures to establish a true world professional championship in ice hockey, "just like the [[World Series]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Morrissey |first=Bob |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ceIxAAAAIBAJ&pg=4421,3065560 |title=Canada Cup 'wasteful' says Clarence Campbell |work=The Gazette|location=Montreal |date=October 27, 1976 |access-date=July 16, 2010 |page=35}}</ref> Under Campbell's proposal, the NHL champion would have played the WHA champion for the right to face the European champion. In the end, Campbell's proposal went nowhere – eventually, the NHL resolved the WHA challenge by agreeing to [[NHL-WHA merger|merge with its rival]], by which time the older league had quietly withdrawn its support for the idea. Neither the NHL nor any other professional hockey league makes a claim to its champions being the ''world champions.''

The Cup was awarded every year until 2005, [[2004–05 NHL lockout|when a labour dispute]] between the NHL's owners and the [[NHL Players Association]] (the [[Trade union|union]] that represents the players) led to the cancellation of the [[2004–05 NHL season|2004–05 season]]. As a result, no Cup champion was crowned for the first time since the flu pandemic in 1919. The lockout was controversial among many fans, who questioned whether the NHL had exclusive control over the Cup. A website known as freestanley.com (since closed) was launched, asking fans to write to the Cup trustees and urge them to return to the original Challenge Cup format.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=115156&hubname= | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929162525/http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=115156&hubname= | archive-date=September 29, 2007 | title=Lockout Reminds Lowe of Gretzky Deal | publisher=[[The Sports Network|TSN]] | date=February 16, 2005 | access-date=July 15, 2006}}</ref> [[Adrienne Clarkson]], then Governor General of Canada, alternately proposed that the Cup be presented to the top women's hockey team in lieu of the NHL season. This idea was so unpopular that the [[Clarkson Cup]] was created instead. Meanwhile, a group in Ontario, also known as the "Wednesday Nighters", filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court, claiming that the Cup trustees had overstepped their bounds in signing the 1947 agreement with the NHL, and therefore must award the trophy regardless of the lockout.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2036537|title=Amateurs taking NHL to court to play for Cup|publisher=[[ESPN]]|access-date=October 13, 2007|date=April 13, 2005}}</ref>

 

 

In 2007, the [[International Ice Hockey Federation]] (IIHF) formalized the "[[Triple Gold Club]]", the group of players and coaches who have won an [[Ice hockey at the Olympic Games|Olympic Games]] gold medal, a [[Ice Hockey World Championship|World Championship]] gold medal, and the Stanley Cup.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winner of three-team tourney to get Victoria Cup|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2863711|date=May 8, 2007|access-date=February 9, 2009|publisher=[[ESPN]]|agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name="expands">{{cite web|title=Triple Gold Club expands to 22 |url=http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/triple-gold-club-expands-to-22/ |website=International Ice Hockey Federation |date=June 5, 2008 |access-date=February 8, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218074948/http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/triple-gold-club-expands-to-22/ |archive-date=February 18, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=PR & Media Activities|url=http://www.iihf.com/100-years/100-years-of-ice-hockey/pr-media-activities.html|website=International Ice Hockey Federation|access-date=February 8, 2009}}</ref> The term had first entered popular use following the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], which saw the addition of the first Canadian members.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Welcome to the Triple Gold Club: Blake, Sakic, Shanahan: New members to elite club: Olympics, worlds, Stanley Cup|work=[[National Post]]|author=Barnes, Don|date=February 25, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Triple Gold Club awaits Canadian trio|author=Scanlan, Wayne|work=[[Edmonton Journal]]|date=February 24, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Skating a fine line|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/2002GamesColumnistsPreGames/buffery_dec26-sun.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718071422/http://slam.canoe.ca/2002GamesColumnistsPreGames/buffery_dec26-sun.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 18, 2012|last=Buffery|first=Steve|newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]]|date=December 26, 2001|access-date=February 9, 2009}}</ref>

==Trustees==

 

 

 

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