Flyers, Jets Fined $10,000 Apiece for Lending Each Other Players

NHL President John Ziegler fined the Philadelphia Flyers and Winnipeg Jets $10,000 each Friday for violating the league by-law that prohibits teams from lending players to each other.

The Flyers traded goalie Pete Peeters and forward Keith Acton to the Jets on Sept. 28 in exchange for future considerations. Five days later, Winnipeg returned Peeters and Acton to Philadelphia in exchange for the Toronto Maple Leafs’ sixth-round selection in the 1991 NHL entry draft, which the Flyers held from an earlier transaction.

Ziegler said while there was no evidence of an agreement to re-trade the players, “the absence of a legally binding agreement to re-trade does not mean there was no loan of the players. . . . The bottom line is that immediately before the waiver draft, the players belonged to Philadelphia and immediately after the draft, they belonged to Philadelphia. In the interim, they were protected from the draft. It is clear to me this was a loan of players.”

Both clubs have the right to appeal the fines to the NHL Board of Governors.