Sunday, February 3, 1991 - North Shore News - 39 AFFLUENCE & INFLUENCE IN HIS OWN WORDS Ron Perrick on the art of negotiating NEWS 5 oto Mike Wak ald SPORTS LAWYER Ron Perrick has fattened the wallets of sev- eral hockey and soccer players. When your aging fridge finally quits, B.C. Hydro will rebate you $50 on the purchase of an energy- saving one. It’s a move that will save you cash. Up front. And down the road, with significance savings on your monthly electric bill. (Statis- tics show that the new energy- saving models can representa typical saving of $300 or more over the life of the fridge compared to less efficient models.) PURGHIASE OF AN ENERGY-SAVING FRIDGE. Plus, your purchase will help slow the ever-growing demand on our valuable hydroelectric resource, Here’s your chance to be Power Smart. ‘To enjoy cash savings now. And the good life electricity brings, for sears to come, BChydro | PABWER SMART Loi = What are the NHL managers like to deal with?: “‘They’re fine. These guys have all been around fora while and I know them pretty well so it’s not an un- familiar process. The general managers may change teams, but they're stil! general managers. The rules are the same. Some of them are a little tougher to deal with than others.”’ Do your clients generally tell you what they want ina contract?: “You have to find out from them what their expectations are. It’s no different than dealing with a client on a motor vehicle accident, becxuse someone has always told them that so and so gets so much. In hockey, all the salaries were recently published in the paper, but it doesn’t say if it’s in U.S. funds. They also didn’t put in signing bonuses. What kinds of information do you use when trying scored how many goals. You have to keep your players’ expectations in line too. Under the present collective agreement, you really don’t have a lot of options, and the arbitration process is the only way you can get to where you want to be. I think players are more likely to do that now than in the past because the (salary) top got blown up by (Brett) Hull to negotiate a contract for an NHL player?: ‘‘*’ou’ve got to do your homework. You have to pull stats out of the league and start looking at how many guys and (Kevin) Stevens. (Mario) Lemieux and (Wayne) Gretzky, of course, are in a different category.” What do you like to do when you’re not working?: “I work out. I spend a lot of time with my kids. I used to coach hockey. My older two boys are in- volved in hockey right now. I wind up teaching the younger ones how to ski and play soccer. When you have five kids, you’re coaching a lot. You should see my equipment room. “I’ve got a place up the coast and I've got a place over in Maui and I go there.’ Performance dictates athiete’s salary From page 38 ment side of the hockey business, having represented former Van- couver Canucks’ general manager Phil Maloney. And then there was the cele- brated incident in which Edmon- ton Oilers’ general manager, and then-coach, Glen Sather, smacked a fan on the head when the Oilers were in town to play the Canucks. The fan charged Sather with assault, and Perrick was hired to defend Sather. “He (Sather) just touched the guy. He just flipped the guy’s earphones off his head and they charged him with common assault,’’ Perrick says, as he shakes his head. ‘‘The guy was yapping at him during a game here.’”” Sather was given an absolute discharge. ENERGY-SAVING FRIDGE $50 REBATE REMINDER | Clip and save this reminder | to ask your appliance dealer | which fridges qualify for the | $50 rebate. Or call B.C. Hydro | toll-free 1-800-663-0431. | * Otter valid on purchases made June 1.1959 Y through March 3. 191, Only cetrigerators having \Y appeoved EnerGuide numbers qualits ' Perrick has been a well-known figure in Vancouver’s sports circle for many years. At one time, he represented nearly all of the former Van- couver Whitecaps, including such stars as Bobby Lenarduzzi, Carl Valentine and Kevin Hector. “]T didn’t know anything about soccer,’’ admits Perrick. Perrick says that as a rule, NHL players are kept in a similar category as must other players, and the category generally dictates their salary. But on-ice perfor- mance determines whether a player can exceed the standard pay scale. information sessions. We'd like to tell you about Parks Plan 90 and the Wilderness Area draft system plan, answer your uestions and hear your ideas. Have we identified the right areas to protect? Are there other areas of provincial significance? If you wish to make a formal presentation, please register by calling your BC Parks district office at 463-3513. Public information sessions will be held throughout pen houses begin at 2 pm, the province. 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McGill Theatre, Robson Sq., 800 Robson St. He says Canucks player Trevor Linden signed a first-year deal with the hockey team three years ago that would have paid the rookie $150,000 to sign, $110,000 in his first year, $115,060 in his second and $120,000 in his third year. But then Perrick signed Brind Amour as a rookie to St. Louis for a sum that upset Canucks’ director of hockey operations Brian Burke because it was well above what most rookies were getting paid at that time. ““Ewas justdoing my job,’’ says Perrick. eginning at 30 pm. ‘ene ae