Alan Eagleson | 85
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For over 25 years Alan Eagleson ruled the professional hockey world by convincing the players he represented through his roles as agent and union boss that he was a benevolent leader with their best interests in mind.
When cracks started to appear in the façade he had created it would take the efforts of dozens of players like Carl Brewer along with other hockey agents and dedicated journalists to finally knock Eagleson off his perch.
On this episode of History of the 90s host Kathy Kenzora looks at the rise and fall of Alan Eagleson.
Guest Info:
David Shoalts, retired sportswriter for The Globe and Mail and author of multiple books including Greed and Glory: The Fall of Hockey Czar Alan Eagleson which he co-wrote with William Houston.
Twitter: @dshoalts
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Instagram: @that90spodcast
Email: 90s@curiouscast.ca
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| 0:41.1 | In March 1994, tears streamed down the face of former NHL tough guy Carl Brewer, |
| 0:47.6 | as he stood listening to an official read a 62-page indictment inside a Boston courthouse. |
| 0:53.9 | As a defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1960s, Brewer was known as a strong and quick skater with silky mitts. He was also a tough-as-nail scrapper who led the NHL in penalty minutes for two seasons. But his biggest fight came later in life. |
| 1:11.5 | Against a man whose overlapping roles as an agent, union leader, and tournament organizer |
| 1:16.9 | made him the most powerful man in hockey for more than two decades. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm Kathy Kanzora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed |
| 1:27.3 | the world. On this episode, about a decade that changed the world. |
| 1:29.0 | On this episode, we're looking back at the rise and fall |
| 1:32.3 | of the man once known as the Hockey's Tsar. |
| 1:35.4 | This is the story of Alan Eagelson. |
| 1:42.6 | Hockey in Canada is a religion. So the person who sits atop the sport is like a god. |
| 1:49.2 | For over 25 years, Alan Eagelson, also known as the Eagle, ruled the hockey world by convincing |
| 1:55.5 | the players he represented through his roles as agent and union boss that he was a benevolent leader with their best interests in mind. |
| 2:04.1 | When Crack started to appear in the facade he created, it would take the efforts of dozens of players like Carl Brewer, |
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