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Flashback with Glen Sharpley
by Alanah McGinley on 02/11/09 at 01:51 PM ET
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From Kevin Glew at The Hockey News,
If anyone has a right to be bitter about the way their NHL career concluded, it’s Glen Sharpley.
The former Minnesota North Star and Chicago Blackhawk had his six-year NHL tenure all but end after a stick slammed into his left eye during a game against the Washington Capitals on Dec. 19, 1981.
“It was basically a dead pupil,” said Sharpley, who was just 25 years old at the time of the injury. “It stopped working and I couldn’t see.”
And if that wasn’t devastating enough, Sharpley’s agent, Alan Eagleson, embezzled a reported $15,000 of the resulting disability insurance benefit. Eagleson’s actions would prompt Sharpley to testify against his former rep in front of a grand jury in Boston in 1992.
continued with an interview with Sharpley on his career and life after hockey
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