Alan Eagleson

And it was in, uh, Sweden that the team really came together.

Uh, we were, the day before we were to go to Moscow from Sweden, the, uh, we were told by, uh, Harry Sinden and Alan Eagleson that the Soviets had changed the deal, that, uh, our wives were gonna have to stay in a different hotel and not with us.

And they left it up to us.

And, uh, Espo, you know, being one of the older guys, he assumed, he said, "Well, boys, we have to vote.

Ty, I did it again, Ty.

Why? Alan Eagleson is very much still with us.

Oh,

is he? How old is he? He's 93 years old.

At least now, these owners share it with the players.

And it was hard-earned, and it didn't happen because of Alan Eagleson.

It happened in spite of Alan Eagleson.

Read about it.

It all happened.

Royals 2, California 2.

The report says Alan Eagleson has decided to refuse a request from the association to concentrate solely on the association matters.

2-2 tie at Royal Stadium.

We go to the bottom of the fifth inning, and here is Al Collins facing Jim Barr.

Players Association Chief Larry Fleischer says the ruling in the Webster case makes it clear to him that the compensation in the Walton case is also excessive.

A Boston report on the Grove says the controversial executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association has agreed to step down from his job in 1982.

The report says Alan Eagleson has decided to refuse a request from the association to concentrate solely on the association matters.

They go to the ninth inning, 8-6 in favor of California.

... broke their noses.

God dang it, just brawling through life to a point in their 60s and 70s that, man, because of them and a strong NHLPA in getting rid of these crooks like Alan Eagleson and all these old guys that were just for themselves, it was a heck of a brawl to get the PA to where it is now, where the players-

Yep

... are, are getting their fair due because-

I tried to pitch a bio of him a bunch of times, but getting bio hockey... you know, hockey vitals done.

It's almost impossible in Canada, but the way he, you know, cause he, he got Alan Eagleson into the league because the, the, the players went on strike against them because of not proper medical, um, just some of the other stuff that we couldn't have shown on, on, on, on our story about shore.

And even Steven McCaddy, he pulled me aside and said, Tim, this is, um, you know, I just got to ask you, he says, uh, you're not making Eddie Shore look very good here.

Is there any good traits we could talk about him? And I said, no.

It reminds me of when Bobby Orr later discovered, I could own 10% of the Boston Bruins.

What the hell, Alan Eagleson? And it's the same thing here.

Why are you benefiting? Who's benefiting by not giving us all the facts? But here's the bottom line.

America is our neighbor and ally, which makes sense.

And then obviously Elway's little not Elway.

shoot I can't remember his name Peyton Manning's Eli Manning right didn't didn't the Manning family try and arrange for him to not wind up somewhere so I mean it happens but yes the Colts thank you for Craig Redmond to tell Toronto that if they draft him he simply will not play for them and then I you might see some of the quotes in the article here let me make my face go away um his agent was Alan Eagleson, which is a whole other layer to this.

Cause Alan Eagleson, for those of you who don't know, was a convicted of fraud and was probably stealing from a lot of his clients and may have had backdoor deals and back, you know, backroom deals to make things happen.

That was all very illegal and shady and gross.

So it's unclear how much of that was Alan Eagleson's involvement.

Um, but either way, um, The story gets, I don't know about weirder, but so the draft comes.

Redmond tells Toronto, don't draft me.

Well, Emil had told me before the game that Ed was being recalled.

The Twix didn't go out until the next morning, but it created what I want to call probably a lot of controversy because Alan Eagleson, as head of the Players Association, said that Ed was not entitled to disability compensation as an NHL player because the accident happened in the minors.

Well...

This was a serious head injury, and I know Emil Francis went to Arhaldeen, got Ralston Perina's corporate plane, got the medical team from St. Louis to fly to Salt Lake City and bring Ed back to St. Louis and put him in the hospital here.

And I've said many, many times before, the history of the league is just a league run by the most chaotic people you've ever met.

Like, go look up Alan Eagleson if you want.

And some of the owners were just crazy guys.

Nutty, kooky people.