Some sad news emanating from Varkaus is that the Eagles’ management have made a decision to cease operations. This must be considered unofficial at the moment since the only source of information is this rather vague announcement on a fans’ web site linked from the front page of the Eagles’ own site. Requests for more information from both Keith McAdams and Eagles management have yet to be replied to.
According to the announcement, the decision to quit was caused by the financial mess the club is in. How it got into that mess is a matter of speculation with the various parties apparently blaming each other, and a number of accusations relating to the financing, none of which can be verified at the moment, being levelled at McAdams. If the stories reaching here from across the pond can be believed, this would not be the first time he has been the recipient of such comments.
All of which leaves a small group of young men in Varkaus with an uncertain immediate future. A once promising ice hockey team is fast disappearing down the pan. A hopelessly under-strength squad nevertheless carved out two victories (the first in extra time) in their first two games of the season. Last weekend the chaos off the ice spread onto the ice, hardly surprisingly, and the Eagles took successive hammerings on the Saturday and Sunday. Whether the Eagles will fulfill any more fixtures is not yet known.
8.10.2008 at 20:01 |
I spoke with one of the Eagles players directly yesterday and McAdams ran off with the loot, AGAIN. he is a thief of the worst kind. STAY AWAY FROM HIM AT ALL COSTS.
29.10.2008 at 4:59 |
I was playing for the Eagles when things went bad so i know the story first hand. Basically what happened was Keith was running the entire show, therefor didnt need to report the financial statesments to anyone. He the used all the money this years players gav him (close to 50 000 euros) and used it for personal reasons, bills, and what was left he pocketed. He did this because he had an agreement with Ricky Smith that Mr. Smith was to give 75 000 euros to the team, when Mr. Smith came forward to do so he asked to see the financial records, Keith denied and Mr. Smith understandably backed out, leaving the Eagles broke as a joke.
1.11.2008 at 11:09 |
Check your e-mails, FEP.
3.11.2008 at 20:16 |
Finland Hockey teams are association, no one person has control over the organization. According to the newspapers Ricky Smith and other board members authorized payments on all bills. According to reports in Finland no money ever went personally to Keith McAdams. It was stated that Ricky Smith was in default on payments and suspended from the membership by the players. This information was provided to the local police. In fact all players voted it was OK for Mr. Smith to delay his payments. In the papers submitted, McAdams warned the team could not pay bills if Mr. Smith money did not arrive. There were criminal complaints filed against people for slander by McAdams. In Finland it is crime to say things that are not true. on the Internet.
21.2.2009 at 19:35 |
i played for the eagles when things went bad as well
i knew shit was going down, so i didnt pay the last of the money, i left, and a few days later the team folded,
all i know is that, a bunch af decent hockey players got together, got better each game we played, won all of regular season games, had some div one teams interested in some of us…. a stepping stone up, and we all got screwed over
i still wanna play pro hockey and im sure everyone else does
but this has disgusted me so much, that i havent played since then
all i wated to do was play hockey
while we were there, it was all politics ad bull shit
levesquejosh@hotmail.com
6.3.2009 at 2:56 |
A number of guys did not pay for the transfers or housing. It is a shame some guys paid and others did not. The rumors created by some, caused players not to paid their money.
about half the guys were scholarships, maybe every player should have been made to pay housing and transfers. When Josh and a couple of others left it and rumors caused a panic.
9.3.2009 at 16:19 |
I wish that as a parent out of pocket by a few thousand euros there was a way we could do a group action lawsuit against the whole lot of them.