A PR representative of Nova Oculus, Roger Gillott, replied to requests for comment witha written statement from Pocklington that has also been posted online. All information about Peter Pocklington can be found here including videos, news updates, interviews, reviews, and . The Cup has come a long way since then. "It literally stated, 'You become what you think about,' " Pocklington told his biographers. We will fight to bring the Nova Oculus medical device to market. They won it five years in a row between 1956 and 1960. The SEC alleges The Eye Machine used Eldred, a local attorney, as a front man to hide Pocklington's role in the business. In June 1988, Gretzky heard that Pocklington and Puck's old buisness parner Nelson Skalbania were trying to work a deal to move Gretzky to Vancouver, news which steamed Gretzky. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. 4 x #StanleyCup Champion @nhl@DetroitRedWings @HockeyHallFame pic.twitter.com/KfOKh2cwIT. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Skalbania bought the Indianapolis Racers in 1978, and signed 17 year old Sault Ste. When Lord Stanley donated the Cup he made sure to mandate that two trustees would always ensure that the Cup remained safe. Alberta man builds ode to former Oilers owner Peter Pocklington with Lego | CBC News Loaded. But the probation was extended after evidence surfaced that he had been involved in a gold-mining, stock-promotion scheme in Arizona. At least swimming with Haek was better than spending an entire night in the Ottawa canal. Before a game he asked Wayne if he was feeling good tonight, & 99 responded that he did. They managed to rack up a$156,679.74 tab at the bar that was partially helped by a $100,000 bottle of champagne. Bob Gaineys name was immortalized as Gainy. Peter Hugh Pocklington (born November 18, 1941) is a Canadian entrepreneur and vocal advocate of free-market capitalism. Buckle up, the story of Peter Pocklingtons rise from ambitious young man to a business leader and will drop this Monday March 16th, one a day for following 100 days. He ran for political office. He was held ransom in his home, ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the federal conservative party and has had numerous brushes with the law. Having made a fortune in auto dealerships and real estate, high school dropout Peter Pocklington (Peter Hugh Pocklington) was one of the richest men in Canada when he and Nelson K. Skalbania cut a deal in October 1976 at a steak house before a group of reporters. [15], On October 8, 2014, Pocklington was the focus of a media opportunity organized by the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club to promote the 30-year reunion of the 1984 Stanley Cup championship team. Itincluded paintings by Andy Warhol, three hockey sticks signed by Wayne Gretzky and pieces of the Berlin Wall. We will update Peter Pocklington's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Peter Puck as he was called in his heyday is a larger-than-life story as he made deals you just cant do that anymore, so it makes for great theater in his Lego-based biopic. The Ageless Foundation and its founder, Naomi Balcombe,won a court order in July 2008 toraid Pocklington'sIndian Wells home and strip him of56 pieces of artwork located there. It is used as a stand-in at the Hall of Fame when the Presentation Cup is not available. "At present, the vision in my right eye continues to deteriorate," he wrote. Marie Greyhounds center Wayne Gretzky to a personal services contract. [3] He remains active in business and philanthropic pursuits there, and was for a long time member of the board of directors at the Betty Ford Center. In an emailed response to questions The Desert Sun sent toNova Oculus representative Roger Gillott, Pocklington confirmed that he is a donor and former board member of the Betty Ford Center and againdenied the SEC's allegations. All information about Peter Pocklington can be found here including videos, news updates, interviews, reviews, and . "The SECs announcement was a laundry list of misguided accusations based on unrelated items of dubious interest," Pocklington wrote. Supported by future Hall of Famers Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey, and Grant Fuhr, Gretzky spearheaded the Oilers to 4 Stanley Cups in 5 years. Ford accepted, and it became a tradition for Pocklington to bring his hockey team to visit Ford in Rancho Mirage, where Pocklington remembers the team rented out Wallys Desert Turtle restaurant in Rancho Mirage and attended a cocktail party at Fords home. In another development Friday, the judge said she will entertain a motion from Pocklington's many creditors to unseal financial records related to his offshore trust accounts. When search suggestions are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Stanley has been all over the world even to Afghanistan all accompanied by its keeper, of course. Bush. "I thought I was bullet-proofuntil I was shot," Pocklington told his biographers. He narrowly avoided being jailed in October 2010 after he pleaded guilty to lying to the court about his assets and income. So, how much is Peter Pocklington worth at the age of 81 years old? Gretzky was with the Racers for only 8 games when, on the advice of Glen Sather, Pocklington bought him and two other players for $700,000. On October 8, 2014, Pocklington was invited back to Edmonton when the Oilers organized a 30-year reunion of their first Stanley Cup championship team. 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Comments are welcome while open. Peter Pocklington was known among North American hockey fans as "Peter Puck", the maverick entrepreneur from oil-rich Alberta who was also the owner of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Edmonton Oilers. Around 1979, the hockey team owner invited President Ford to give a speech at a Junior Achievement fundraiser in Canada, according to an oral history interviewPocklingtongave to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. According to a sentencing submission filed with the court, and obtained by CBC News, Eva Pocklington underwent surgery earlier this month to have a pacemaker installed. Since then, Pocklington has had new business ventures. Thirty years. When the Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Qubec Nordiques, and Winnipeg Jets were admitted into the NHL for the 1979-1980 season, each team was allowed to keep 2 goalies and 2 skill players. Obviously, this is not a development I welcome, but I accept full responsibility for my actions and I will willingly comply with each and every condition of my supervised release. Los Angeles lawyer David Casselman acts for the creditors, including the Alberta government. "Peter not only donated over one million dollars and named one of the patient halls in honor of his wife Eva, but he freely gave of his time and business advice," Schwarzlose wrote. He was 46 years, 6 months when he won the cup with Detroit in 2008.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'thehockeywriters_com-leader-3','ezslot_19',832,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-thehockeywriters_com-leader-3-0');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'thehockeywriters_com-leader-3','ezslot_20',832,'0','1'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-thehockeywriters_com-leader-3-0_1');.leader-3-multi-832{border:none!important;display:block!important;float:none!important;line-height:0;margin-bottom:7px!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;margin-top:7px!important;max-width:100%!important;min-height:250px;padding:0;text-align:center!important}. Butfinancial problems followed him into the ritzy country club. It was when Dominic Haek won the Cup in 2002 that Phil Pritchard finally had enough of swimming with Stanley. Unlike other teams, a new trophy is not made every year. But what about little-known facts. The first was Sylvain Lefebvres daughter,who was baptisedafter the Colorado Avalanche won in 1996. He became full-owner in 1977 when Skalbania decided that the Oilers would not be joining the NHL anytime soon. Peter Pocklington pled guilty to perjury: In 2008, Following a bankruptcy claim, the former Edmonton Oilers owner had to be bailed out of jail in California by his former general manager, Glen Sather for 1 million dollars. I respect the justice system of the United States, and I accept the findings of the District Court. He campaigned on a platform of free trade with the United States, privatizing government-owned Crown corporations like Air Canada, Petro-Canada and Canadian National Railway, retiring the national debt and implementing a flat tax. Lord Stanley decided to donate the Cup to Canadas top amateur hockey team. Marshals of the Pocklington home in Indian Wells, California, where a number of items belonging to his wife, including gowns, shoes and purses, as well as Andy Warhol prints of Mick Jagger, were seized. "We intend to vigorously defend our reputation. Peter Pocklington confessed to lying when he filed for bankruptcy that year. Peter Pocklington pleads guilty to perjury in bid to avoid jail time The Canadian Press May 24, 2010 The Hockey News LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Federal prosecutors in the U.S. say former Edmonton. Peter Pocklingtons history in the desert can be traced back 40 years during which time he hobnobbed with former President Gerald Ford, lived in a luxurious condo in the Vintage Club and became ensnared ina series of legal battles. Of course, in 10 years, Peter shocked the world by trading Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. It was a streamlined cup that would get a new band every year. That lineup went off the rails and blew up when Pocklington acquired the magnificent young star Wayne Gretzky to the team in 1979. [2], In May 2012, Pocklington announced his family was auctioning memorabilia from his time as owner of the Oilers, including his rings from their Stanley Cup championships. Even team names are not safe. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. In 2015, itreleased a statementsaying it had acquired the assetsof a second company developing a macular degenerationtreatment device. For years, the creditors have alleged he has stashed millions of dollars in the accounts. Pocklington is infamous in sports circles as the man who traded Wayne Gretzkyin 1988, but since then, the companieshe has bought and sold have won him a different kind of notoriety. The book's title was inspired by Pocklington's ongoing conviction the Gretzky trade was the right deal at the right time and had a positive impact on all parties concerned: the Oilers, the Kings, Gretzky and the game itself. In the spring of 1982, during an intruder's botched attempt to kidnap Eva, Pocklington was taken hostage at gunpoint for 11 hours in his mansion in Edmonton. In a new biography about the one-time Edmonton Oilers owner, "I'd Trade Him Again," Pocklington recalls a deal he almost made where the Leafs and Oilers would have swapped cities. Peter Pocklington, the controversial former Edmonton Oilers owner, now resides in Palm Desert, California. Hedeclared bankruptcy at his biggest holding company,sold the Oilers and shed a $750,000 wine collection, among other assets, according to a 2008 profile in The Globe and Mail. While Pocklington remains a controversial figure in Canada because of the Gretzky trade, he has his fans, too. The team's success, however, could not offset its owner's financial woes. The other two people in the house were released, leaving Pocklington, who was with the gunman for 11 hours while he negotiated a $2million ransom. These are most of the names from the Dominion Cup. "We do not tell our investors anything their data is not telling us. Neither Pocklington nor Eldred agreed to an interview for this story. Over the next 18 years, Pocklington also owned the Edmonton Trappers of baseball's Pacific Coast League, the Edmonton Drillers of the North American Soccer League and the National Professional Soccer League, the Edmonton Brick Men of the Canadian Soccer League, and the Kamloops Junior Oilers of the Western Hockey League. Adversity is a great teacher and makes those who strive to overcome it better people. Together,Eldred and Pocklingtonalso misled Eye Machine investors about how their money would be spent, according to the SEC lawsuit, pocketing $680,000 for themselves, awarding hefty sales commissions to agents that solicited investors and breaking securities registration rules along the way. Peter Pocklington (Peter Hugh Pocklington) was born on 18 November, 1941 in London, Ontario, Canada, is an Actor. Henri Charriere: The Life And Times Of The Famous Papillon, New to Guest Posting? One of his earliest business ventures was to find old cars on the farms around his maternal grandparents' home in Carberry, Manitoba, buy them for $25, then ship them to Ontario by train, where he sold them for upwards of $500. Like the fact that two babies were baptized in the Cup. Unlike other sports, the players themselves get to take the Cup to their hometown and enjoy a day with it. It was less than a year later thatPocklington started The Eye Machine, the SEC alleges. He withdrew his candidacy before the second ballot and supported the eventual winner Brian Mulroney, who would adopt some of Pocklington's policies while in government. We will do all we can to restore sight to people who would otherwise not have any," the statement added. Pocklington has been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. It was also from Skalbania that Pocklington acquired perhaps the greatest hockey player ever. Pocklington later claimed in his biography the confusion stemmed from a set of rings he had made for his father, and were sold by his fathers estate in 2001. . In what would have been the biggest trade in hockey history, Peter and Ballard discussed a straight swap of teams. In 2010, he was convicted of committing perjury during his personal bankruptcy. Instead, some 39 percent of the proceeds about $5.5 million went to pay sales commissions alone, according to the lawsuit. The court had earlier heard evidence that Pocklington had, over a 19-month period, failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of consulting fees paid to a company controlled by his wife, Eva. Pocklington vigorously denied the allegations, insisted he and McNeil had done nothing wrong, and that investors in the mining venture were not being misled. Scotty Bowman has his name on the Cup nine times as a coach, split between the Penguins, Red Wings and Canadiens. On October 19, 2013, The Edmonton Sun reported Pocklington would seek stem-cell treatment for his condition. For the rest of you, heres some new knowledge for you to dole out next time you converse about the chalice. Edmonton in the 1970s was experiencing explosive growth fuelled by an oil boom and several fortunes were made, not only by Pocklington but by the likes of Pat Bowlen, later owner of the National Football League's Denver Broncos. As the owner, the Oilers became a dominant NHL team in fact, a dynasty under Peter Pocklington. Under the rules, Gretzky was not eligible to be protected. In 1963, NHL President Clarence Campbell thought that the Dominion Cup had become too brittle to constantly be passed about so he created the Presentation Cup which is the Cup that we know and love today. But it was his ownership of the . The youngest player to ever win the Cup was Larry Hillman. Having made a fortune in auto dealerships and real estate, high school dropout Peter Pocklington (Peter Hugh Pocklington) was one of the richest men in Canada when he and Nelson K. Skalbania cut a deal in October 1976 at a steak house before a group of reporters. First, hedabbled in the gold mining business, submitting plans to the Bureau of Land Management to begin a project in Quartzite, Arizona in March 2013. They started giving it to each player and front office member for a day. The man who came to be known as "Peter Puck" bought part ownership of the Edmonton Oilers in 1976. The first was when the Penguins won the cup in 1991. It literally said, You become what you think, Pocklington told his biographers. His remaining business empire was sold off piece by piece, including the Oilers and Trappers and Cambra Foods. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. By the mid-1990s, the Oilers were still losing money and Pocklington expressed an unwillingness to use his other businesses to bankroll his hockey team. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. Barbara Davidson /The Globe and Mail Peter Pocklington seemingly had it all -. Gretzky, who blasted Pocklington in his 1990 autobiography as "a cheapskate", eventually made peace with his former owner, even admitting in "30 for 30: Kings Ransom" that he had given Peter Pocklington no choice but to deal him. In March 2009, Pocklington was indicted for bankruptcy fraud. A few months later, Pocklington parlayed the Gretzky signing into a merger between the WHA and the National Hockey League (NHL); with this, the Oilers became members of the NHL. The judge however, noted the letters reflected that Pocklington had only spoken about how successful he was and made no mention of him expressing any remorse for his crime. A statement by Pocklington's company was included in Canadian media accounts, which stated the allegations of wrongdoing have been laid to rest with the commissions decision. Skalbania bought the Indianapolis Racers in 1978, and signed 17 year old Sault Ste. The league. CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. The company kicked things off with theannouncement of a licensing deal to market a non-invasive treatment for macular degeneration. Instead of leaving it, they Xd out his name. And it's all illustrated in Lego, people kind of get a kick out of that. At the ceremony, former owner Peter Pocklington gave Gretzky's then-infant daughter Paulina a $25,000 savings bond. Facebook gives people the. "I can't draw or paint or do anything like that," he said. The Oilers lineup of stars was the thing of legends Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Grant Fuhr, Glenn Anderson, Mark Messier, and on and on. Eventually, he agreed to settle the strike and rehire the striking workers at the request of the Alberta government. Eva PocklingtonDTR Holdings, Cobra Chemical and Gold Star Resources are each named as relief defendants in the SEC lawsuit, a status granted to people accused of receiving ill-gotten gains as a result of illegal actions taken by other named defendants. Peter Hugh Pocklington (born November 18, 1941) is a Canadian entrepreneur and vocal advocate of free-market capitalism. The truth is, we do. On 9 August 1988, Pocklington sold Gretzky, Marty McSorley, and Mike Krushelnyski to Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, $15 million cash, and the Kings' first-round picks in 1989, 1991, and 1993. by A.A. Cristi Jul.. "I think [the judge]has been very fair in considering and agreeing to consider further the issue of unsealing the records, which are of considerable importance to all of the people who have been defrauded by Mr. The SEC lawsuit contends that from the beginning,Pocklingtonand Eldred took steps to concealwho controlled the startup. The ATB refused and instead called his loan. In the fall of 1978, Skalbania offered Pocklington the rights to a 17-year-old phenom Wayne Gretzky. In the end, Pocklington fell far below his expectations of delegates; one advisor jokingly guessed "99", Gretzky's sweater number, and Pocklington came close in receiving 102 delegates. 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