According to a report in the Calgary Herald, disgraced hockey agent and promoter Alan Eagleson was pardoned in 2005 by the Canadian government on his 1998 conviction and imprisonment on three counts of fraud and embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars of Canada Cup earnings.
...Eagleson avoided a five-year prison sentence in the U.S. in a 1998 plea bargain that allowed him to serve just four months of an 18-month prison sentence in Canada...
"I am very surprised," Hockey Hall of Famer Brad Park told the Herald. "I can't believe that this was never made public knowledge. Down here (in the United States) pardons like this are public and done by the President. I think that's a better system. I guess the message to the hockey players he cheated all those years is 'roll us over and do it again.'”
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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