Hockey

The NHL Players Assn. spent nearly $217,000 for meals, gifts, tickets, club dues, a London apartment and promotional activities during three years near the end of Alan Eagleson’s reign as head of the union, a Massachusetts newspaper reported.

The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune says Eagleson was personally reimbursed $62,342 by the union in that period from 1987-89.

Among the expenses the newspaper said the players’ union was billed for were $36,917 for gifts to insurance agents and others who did business with the NHL Players Assn., $24,000 for a London apartment plus tickets to Wimbledon and the theater and $19,274 for golf and tennis.