NHL: We've heard this song before
Does this story [ David Shoalts , The Globe and Mail ] about hockey players getting screwed out of their pension money seem familiar to anyone? It darn well should. The last man to mess with the players' pensions was former NHLPA czar Alan Eagleson and we all know how that worked out ["Eagleson Pleads Guilty", Maclean's via The Canadian Encyclopedia ]. Casual students of the game would do well to remember that Eagleson's previous follies weren't exposed until Carl Brewer and Susan Foster courageously ran up massive legal bills trying to expose his shenanigans and Lawrence Eagle-Tribune sports editor Russ Conway spent over a year on Eagleson's trail. As written on Andrew's Stars Page , "Brewer, former player, and Conway, a newspaper writer, were instrumental in exposing the fraud and corruption during Alan Eagleson's reign as head of the NHLPA and his time as the most powerful man in hockey. It helped bring justice to hundreds of retir...