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Carl Brewer was one of the best hockey defencemen of his time. In most other players, skills such as his would have formed the foundation of a long career and, eventually, led to a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Brewer, however, let his principles get in the way. In the early 1990s, Brewer led a group of players in a lawsuit against the National Hockey League Players Association, which resulted in a landmark settlement in favour of the players' pension rights. As part of the ruling, Alan Eagleson, the powerful head of the NHLPA, was sent to prison. Brewer's story is one of the most important Canadian sports stories of the last half-century, its legacy benefiting the game's stars to this day.
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