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	Alan Eagleson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eagleson, then a lawyer in Toronto, first came to prominence in when Carl Brewer of the Toronto Maple Leafs hired him as his agent.
		Notably, Eagleson was responsible for the decision to exlude many WHA stars from the Summit Series, including Bobby Hull, Gerry Cheevers and Derek Sanderson.
		During one of the Summit Series games in Moscow, Eagleson garnered international attention by attempting to assault one of the referees after the latter failed to light the goal lamp when a Canadian player scored, at which point he was seized by soldiers of the Soviet army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Eagleson (1041 words)

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		Eagleson, 19 F. Supp.2d 352, 359-60 (E.D. Pa. 1998) (footnotes and citations omitted except that footnote 10 is in the quoted text).
		Eagleson and the NHL defendants moved to dismiss, or, in the alternative, for a summary judgment on the ground that the four-year 8 statute of limitations applicable to civil RICO claims barred Count I of the fourth amended complaint.
		Eagleson's control over international hocke y and its finances was not possible without the assent of the NHL defendants, who agreed to permit their players to play in the tournaments and agreed to Eagleson's leadership of the NHL-NHLPA partnership.
	vls.law.vill.edu /locator/3d/Oct2000/991803.txt (6437 words)

	Eagleson, Robert Alan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Eagleson, Robert Alan, lawyer (b at St Catharines, Ont 24 Apr 1933).
		He was one of the most important figures in the organization of hockey matches between European teams and the NHL, organizing all of the CANADA CUP tournaments, and he was the chief negotiator for Hockey Canada.
		In 1993 a grand jury in Boston held hearings into Eagleson's affairs and indicted him in 1994 on charges of racketeering, fraud and embezzlement.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0002483 (257 words)

	Amazon.ca: Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey: Books: Russ Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Eagleson’s use of National Hockey League Players’ Association money for questionable and unauthorized loans to friends and associates, one of whom was also his partner in business ventures.
		Eagleson’s exploitation of his position as head of the NHLPA and driving force behind the Canada Cup to obtain everything from free clothing to free air travel to France.
		Eagleson will be back in the courts again before long, no doubt willing to lie about the charges being brought forward by a number of retired hockey players.
	www.amazon.ca /Game-Misconduct-Eagleson-Corruption-Hockey/dp/1551990180 (1240 words)

	The Globe and Mail: The Summit Series, 1972-2002
		Eagleson aired, he was at the 40th-wedding anniversary party of his late friend John Sopinka, a Supreme Court of Canada judge, and the criminal remembers the judge telling him, "Eagle, I thought that was terrific.
		Eagleson has much to be ashamed of, that he should hide in his thick shell along Lake Huron or the Thames until the end of his days.
		Eagleson was found guilty of three counts of fraud involving players' insurance premiums in the United States, for which he gave up properties in Florida, New York City and London to pay off the $1-million fine.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /series/72summit/20020914eagleson.html (2761 words)

	CBA: The Eagleson scandal
		Eagleson billed hundreds of thousands of dollars in sometimes questionable expenses to the players' union, plus union funds were put into high-risk real estate investments involving Mr.
		Eagleson told Gillis that it would be a tough case, but if the injured Bruin would give him a 15 percent cut, Eagleson said he would see what he could do.
		Eagleson urged NHLPA players to participate in these tournaments by assuring them that certain of the proceeds from the tournaments would be used to enhance their pensions and that neither he nor his family members received any monetary benefit from the tournaments.
	www.andrewsstarspage.com /11-16cba.htm (2418 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Eagleson told the Barons that if they played tonight and again Sunday in Pittsburgh, the players’ plight would be resolved one way or another by Tuesday noon.
		Eagleson informed Bob Stewart, the Barons’ player representative, that every man on the team would be declared a free agent on Tuesday if they haven’t been paid in full or the team sold by the deadline.
		Eagleson today told Stewart those three men would be reimbursed for their expenses from the association’s emergency fund and that they will be backed in any legal action they may take.
	members.aol.com /gowhalers8/disband.html (459 words)

	Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: Eagleson to plead guilty to defrauding players 1/5/98
		Eagleson, who had been indicted on 34 charges that included racketeering, embezzlement, fraud and obstruction of justice, has also agreed to a U.S. fine of about $700,000.
		Eagleson has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud in connection with his personal use of airline travel passes and other advertising profits from the Canada Cup.
		Eagleson also faces a federal civil racketeering lawsuit in Boston brought by former Bruin Andre Savard, who claims the ex-union leader and others cheated him out of $100,000 in disability insurance.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/010698/spo_hockey.shtml (729 words)

	Hockey union czar Eagleson is going to jail: 1/7/98
		Eagleson was fined $697,810, or $1 million Canadian, for skimming the pensions and disability insurance of players he once represented.
		Eagleson, who had been a fugitive from U.S. justice since 1994, had been indicted on 34 charges that included racketeering, embezzlement, fraud and obstruction of justice.
		Eagleson's schemes were first identified in an investigative series by reporter Russ Conway of The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, which reported that profits from the tournaments were not dedicated to players' pensions, as promised.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/01-98/01-07-98/d05sp199.htm (803 words)

	The Summit in 1972: Alan Eagleson
		Eagleson's story is a story of a man who went from being the most powerful tycoon in the NHL and Canada to an oblivious life of a self-confessed corrupted criminal.
		Sometimes, I think that it was Eagleson's lack of personal and business principles that actually helped to break the hostile hockey environment in the middle of the Cold War.
		Regardless of his motivation, Eagleson was one of the key organizers of the Series and deserves, at least, some credit in the historical record of the 1972 Summit Series.
	www.chidlovski.com /personal/1972/story/eagleson.htm (672 words)

	The World Cup of Hockey - The History of the Canada Cup and World Cup of Hockey
		Eagleson helped get the Canadian national team back in IIHF events such as the world championships, as well as helping to create the world junior championships.
		Eagleson, at age 64, was finally caught, after caught after several years of complicated investigations.
		Eagleson, who headed the organization called Hockey Canada which negotiated these international hockey dealings, was using this hockey cash cow to pay for many of his own expenses.
	www3.telus.net /worldcuphockey/alaneagleson.html (903 words)

	Order of Canada: losing credibility
		Alan Eagleson, a former hockey agent and executive director of the NHL Players Association was invested into the Order as a Member in 1989, mainly for his work in bringing the 1972 hockey series between Canada and the Soviet Union into fruition.
		Eagleson was stripped of his membership in February 1998, one month after he was sentenced to 18 months in jail after having been found guilty of fraud.
		Eagleson’s situation seems to have set the standard that once a person is invested into the Order, they cannot be stripped of the honour unless they are convicted of a criminal offence.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/weinreb061705.htm (796 words)

	Universities grapple with Eagleson connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The R. Alan Eagleson Scholarship, set up in 1977 for University of Toronto faculty of law students, is now in the line of fire.
		One of this year's Eagleson scholars, who was offered the award when the hockey czar was still under investigation, says he considered refusing it even before the conviction.
		Eagleson is now serving an 18-month prison sentence in a Toronto jail for his crimes.
	aix2.uottawa.ca /~fulcrum/58-20/news/UgwEc.html (688 words)

	Alan Eagleson in the world of politics - The Rise and Fall of Alan Eagleson - CBC Archives
		Alan Eagleson is one of Canada's movers and shakers.
		Eagleson, backed by Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, lost the York West riding to another hockey icon, former NHL great Leonard "Red" Kelly, a Liberal.
		In 1968 Eagleson was defeated by New Democrat Pat Lawlor.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-74-1493-10043/people/alan_eagleson/clip1 (551 words)

	Eagleson asks forgiveness, heads to jail: 1/8/98
		TORONTO -- Alan Eagleson turned to some of the hockey stars he bilked and asked for their forgiveness before heading off to jail yesterday.
		Eagleson was also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and was named to the Order of Canada, which he wore his on his suit lapel during his court appearances in Toronto on Wednesday and in Boston on Tuesday.
		Eagleson, a fugitive from American justice since 1994, had been indicted on 34 charges that included racketeering, embezzlement, fraud and obstruction of justice.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/01-98/01-08-98/d06sp182.htm (822 words)

	Carl Brewer's battle with hockey's power brokers detailed in book by partner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Brewer was obsessed with getting what he felt he deserved from the Toronto Maple Leafs and the pension plan for NHL players, and with exposing Alan Eagleson, and Foster was an integral part of the attack on all fronts.
		He brought Eagleson into his contract talks with the Leafs, much to the dismay of coach Punch Imlach, he cut the palms out of his gloves so he could hold his stick shaft with his bare hands, and he walked away from the NHL in 1965 after playing for only seven years.
		He sought and was eventually granted reinstatement as an amateur so he could play for Canada at the 1967 world championship, he went to Finland to play temporarily, and returned to the NHL to play a full season with the Detroit Red Wings in 1969-70.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/sports/061016/s101634.html (868 words)

	SportingNews.com Blogs
		Alan Eagleson was instrumental in Brewer's reinstatement as an amateur at this time.
		Alan Eagleson got his start as an agent in 1965 when Maple Leafs defenseman Carl Brewer was fed up with poor player salaries and rich owners.
		Eagleson was involved in the organization of the infamous 1972 Summit Series between Canada and Russia.
	www.sportingnews.com /blog/Chevans/tag/NHL (3426 words)

	September 2002 Archives
		Eagleson claimed if he had millions of dollars, he'd still be fighting the charges, until he was dead and broke.
		Eagleson was a glad-handing, back-slapping politico who happily got in bed with the league board of governors to both his, and their, profit at the expense of the very players Eagleson claimed to represent.
		Eagleson tells anyone who'll listen (and for a long time, many believed him) that he was the mastermind behind the famous series, which changed the face of professional hockey forever.
	spectorshockey.tripod.com /September_2002_soapbox_archives.html (6320 words)

	World Wide Hall of Fame
		This became poignant when considering Alan Eagleson's contributions to the game.
		Eagleson had a large group of balloters who wanted to enshrine him for his contributions to player agents, his organizational abilities for the Summit Series and the Canada Cup, and then eventually remove him for exposing his crimes for which he was convicted in two countries.
		"I voted for Eagleson for a while, and then stopped as his support never mounted and the years got later, it is obvious that other committee members had a hard time voting for him because of what we know now," Kasiorek said.
	www.chidlovski.com /wwhhof/eagleson.htm (572 words)

	Eagleson and the Summit Series - The Rise and Fall of Alan Eagleson - CBC Archives
		The hockey series of the century is underway, and it's the brainchild of Alan Eagleson.
		Eagleson took charge of the program, negotiating with the Russians and promoting the series.
		To the boos of the crowd, the defiant Eagleson finished his performance by giving the Russian police the finger as he left the ice.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-1493-10045/sports/alan_eagleson/clip2 (716 words)

	Feb 98 - NDP should tap into anti-elite anger revealed by Eagelson affair
		Alan Eagleson- an icon of the establishment, a friend to prime ministers and chief justices, Liberals and Conservatives, a former MPP and Conservative Party President - was a greedy thief who couldn't get enough.
		He did it all at the expense of the muckers, the fighters, the guys who sacrificed their bodies and their futures for the good of the team, their families, and ultimately their country.
		In 1987, Eagleson asked provincial Liberal cabinet minister Murray Elston to give a special exemption to the NHL pension society so that it didn't have to have Joint Trusteeship of the pension - thus allowing the owners to control it.
	www.web.net /~ondp/nod/feb98/eagelson.htm (694 words)

	Eye Weekly - On ice - 01.15.98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ice, that most Canadian of elements, was the theme of the prominent stories of the past week, chief among them an ice storm that destroyed the infrastructure of swaths of Ontario, Quebec and parts of the Maritimes.
		Last week also brought the denouement of another ice capade, with the sentencing of a penitent Alan Eagleson, once the dark lord of professional ice hockey, for frauds and embezzlements too numerous and boring to list here.
		A notoriously foul-mouthed bully, a chiselling liar with a legal degree and an attenuated conscience, Eagleson preyed on the naivete of professional hockey players and, ultimately, the country.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.15.98/news_views/media.html (668 words)

	The media myths and Alan Eagleson
		Never let it be said that we in the media are not observers of the painfully obvious.
		First, nailing Eagleson was a tough job, made more difficult by Canada's stricter libel laws, compared to the U.S. Second, U.S. authorities seemed far more enthusiastic about pursuing the case than Canadians, a boon to reporters there.
		The fact the person they're probing may be a friend of their boss would weigh on the mind of any journalist to some extent.
	www.canoe.ca /HockeyEagleson/jan11_goldstein.html (770 words)

	1972 Summit Series.com: Remembering the 1979 Challenge Cup
		Alan Eagleson was a member of the Conservative Party who had been a politician and was still politically involved.
		Trudeau drove up to the back of the plane, and we were supposed to walk down the ramp in the back to greet him, but Eagleson decided to snub him, and for fifteen minutes there was an argument about which end of the plane the players should exit from.
		Eagleson wanted us to go to a party, but I went back to the hotel.
	www.1972summitseries.com /espomemoirs.html (625 words)

	jad Jan 2005
		Alan Eagleson has been charged in Canada with more than 44 counts of fraud committed since 1994, when he was head of the National Hockey League Players Association.
		Alan Eagleson was the executive director of the NHLPA pension plan has 40 million of surpluses.
		This is where Allan Eagleson has made his money and he and his family, associates and his companies apparently made millions in contracts associated with the tournaments (World Cup), Eagleson made hundred of thousand of dollars in proceeds from which he apparently salted away in Swiss Bank accounts.
	canadianhockeyparents.com /jad_jan_2005.htm (3127 words)

	Flyers History - Historic Moments
		National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell, NHL Players' Association executive director Alan Eagleson and finally Vlacheslav Koloskov, head of the Russian delegation, calmed the emotional coach.
		Kolosov was described by both Eagleson and NHL president Clarence Campbell as level headed and cool.
		Koloskov's reaction was in contrast to someone Eagleson described as "on the periphery" {Ed's note - this was probably Ed Snider} of the NHL delegation who warned the Russians they would forfeot the $200,000 they are ready to receive for the eight game exhibition.
	www.flyershistory.com /cgi-bin/hm.cgi?006hm (2667 words)

	CBC Sports Online - Top 10 - Falling Down
		Eagleson was one of the most prominent figures in hockey for decades.
		But the legacy Eagleson built over the years came crashing down in the 1990s when he was charged with racketeering and defrauding the NHLPA.
		Eagleson served six months in prison upon pleading guilty.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/columns/top10/fallingdown.html (1823 words)

	04_13.htm
		The U.S. Supreme Court refused June 25 to revive claims by former NHL players that they were victims of a conspiracy waged by NHL teams and the ex-head of NHL Players' Ass'n, Alan Eagleson, to keep salaries low.
		In 1991, Eagleson's activities were detailed in a series of newspaper articles and allegations against him were widely read in NHL circles.
		The players, however, argued that because Eagleson was not actually indicted on criminal charges until 1994, the statute of limitations should be measured from then.
	www.nlpc.org /olap/UCU2/04_13_09.htm (591 words)

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