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was also cheated out of $ 100,000 in disability payments and an additional $ 8,500 in legal fees from one of
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Cracking the Ice: Intrigue and Conflict in the World of Big-time Hockey
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Game misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey
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408:New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame
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161:and the mismanagement of funds, and
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927:Eagleson: The Fall of a Hockey Czar
744:Houston & Shoalts (1993), p. 20
980:American investigative journalists
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281:(NHL). He later collaborated with
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691:"Bringing down the 'Hockey Czar'"
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856:"mr. unpopularity"
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