European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 4, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33 by Stephen Brunt ? Toronto Globe and mail a Little More than 10 months ago it was All fire and Brimstone Solidarity forever to the barricades to meet the oppressor. They were being unfairly treated by management they were being belittled regarding their importance to the game the players were going easy to make life simple for their Scab replacements. A the players were negotiating for benefits for free Agency a Andy Van Hellemond a senior National hockey league referee said last november comparing the National hockey league officials strike to that other previous work stoppage. A this is different. We re talking about our bread and  a. Quot v a and the players he said should take note a the referees and linesmen were just the thin Edge of the wedge. Just wait. Gary Bette aft and company Are Only using us As a warm up for the real Battle to come. There Are storm Clouds on the horizon. Thursday the nil officials began their preseason workouts at Copps coliseum and it seemed those dire predictions had come True. They of course went Back to work though their collective agreement with the league has still not been ratified. Some of their number were dismissed during the past of season though some of them have now been reinstated and of late it has been revealed that the Teague plans to remove the officials names from their commentary backs. Made less noticeable goes the theory made More easily replaceable made less valuable. More bread and butter stuff. But the Teal news is on the other front where the commissioner has indeed begun to play hardball and where the players a who were happily coasting along without a contract watching salaries Rise a must now fight a defensive action at a time of year when they re most vulnerable. From the senior referee though there Are no a i told you  in fact he sounds so conciliatory he could be speaking the company line. A a they re listening to us and they re hearing Pur ideas a Van Hellemond said. A a nil vice president Brian Burke has been very open minded. He wants to make things work. A i think that s what Bettman has brought to the game a the partnership aspect. We Are partners in it. I think with the players they want to make them partners in it As  a perhaps that a True perhaps this will be the first collective bargaining session in history in which one Side Isnit trying to get the better of the other Side. More Likely though is that hockey is stil i fundamentally different from other professional sports. Not in the business aspect a the Bottom line is the same in All the major leagues a but in the Way its employees regard their employers. Hockey players a and hockey officials a have Long by the associated press new York Bob proberts career was again put on hold Friday when nil commissioner Gay Bettman placed the Chicago Blackhawk right Wing on the indefinite inactive list. Probert whose summer was marred by a motorcycle crash and drunk driving arrest will undergo league supervised substance abuse treatment. A your primary concern at Inis time is helping Bob Probert Deal with his problem a Bettman said Friday. A we wont speculate on the timing of his return to the  in 1989, Probert Probert was convicted of trying to bring cocaine into the United states from Canada he. Served three months in Federal prison. He is currently charged with drunk driving for a july 15 incident when his motorcycle collided with a car in West Bloomfield township Mich. _ Probert 29, signed a $6.6 million four year contract with Chicago on july 23, three Days after being waived by Detroit. His Deal with the Blackhawk includes provisions that he stay out of trouble. Nil notes state police or said that blood tests showed Probert Likely ingested cocaine within two hours of being admitted to a Hospital following the motorcycle Accident and had a blood alcohol level of 0.31 percent More than three times the Legal limit. The Day before the Accident he was ticketed in Taylor Mich., for speeding and driving without a License. _ Probert had seven goals and 10 assists with 275 penalty minutes last season and 114 goals and 145 assists with 2,090 penalty minutes in nine seasons at Detroit. Olczyk comes to terms new York a left Winger Eddie Olczyk of the new York rangers has agreed to terms on a two year contract. Olczyk 28, was expected to be granted unrestricted free Agency but the rangers made him a qualifying offer so they could retain Matching  Volek retires Uniondale . A new York islanders right Wing David Volela who scored the winning goal in overtime of game 7 of the 1993 Patrick division final against Pittsburgh retired Friday. Volek 28, missed most of last season because of a herniated disk in his lower Back. The injury did not respond to extensive rehabilitation. I Volek joined the islanders in july 1988 after defecting from Czechoslovakia. He played six seasons with the team and in 1989 was the first islander selected to the nil All Rookie team. Karla ends holdout Anaheim Calif. Paul Kariya the fourth pick in the 1993 nil entry draft ended a 14-month holdout Friday by signing with the mighty ducks of Anaheim. The former University of Maine Forward came to terms three Days before the second year expansion team opened training Camp enabling general manager Jack Ferreira to get both of his no. 1 picks under contract in a Span of 18 Days. Dec Neman Oleg Tverdovsky the second Overall pick in this years draft inked a three year Deal on aug. 15. The ducks did not disclose terms of Kariya a contract which was not finalized until he and agent Don Baizley received clarification from nil commissioner Bettman As to Kariya a free agent status if he had not signed. Kariya who turns 20 in october led Maine to its first Mcaa championship in 1993 and became the first freshman to win the Hobey Baker award As the seasons top College player. The 175-Pound left Wing played for the Silver medal winning Canadian olympic team in Lillehammer last Winter. Re Dhoti to Quot september 5-11 Mon 5 tue6 wed 7 thu 8 Uso tournament tee times Avail. Ladies Day open tee from 0700 open tee from 0700 scramble oath year open tee from 0700 summer clearance Sale fri9 sat 10 tee closed from 09001200 tee times Avail operated under the Assumption that they must protect the game that its fragile that because it Wasny to a National attraction in the United states it could just up and vanish one Day. V they liked it too much they liked their jobs too much to let that happen and so they were the last of their Breed to become militant. The old timers who helped make the nor rises and the Wirtjes of this world Rich by playing for Picayune salaries did so because they did no to want to Rock the boat lest it sink. We Are far Down the Road now and the players in their strike and through their Union leadership showed that they were rising up. So did the officials. A but you have to wonder just How deep it runs. The baseball players Long ago cast aside any notions that they had any greater responsibility than maximizing their return and opening up the free  they came to believe that the game could survive anything since it had survived some of the worst management imaginable. They came to believe that unless proved otherwise the owners were lying to them and so any suggestion of partnership of a shared cause was inconceivable. 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