Bill Beagan Bill Beagan learned to play hockey while growing up in Parry Sound, but he has taken his passion and shared it with the world. There are very few people who have done so much for the game of hockey. Beagan has been honoured by the North American Hockey League, by The Hockey News, by Pass Sports and Prime Television, by the Metropolitan Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau, and by the NCAA. He has served as a director of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, and as supervisor of officials for the 1976 winter Olympics at Innsbruck. He officiated in the National Hockey League and won two Turner Cups as owner of the IHL’s Toledo Goaldiggers. Bill has been commissioner of the International Hockey League, the Eastern Hockey League, and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. He built the CCHA into the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s premier league and since retiring there in 1998 the playoff MVP award is now named the Bill Beagan Trophy. Related Links for Bill Beagan ◦ The Michigan Daily      CCHA boss Beagan to call it quits ◦ Central Collegiate Hockey Association ◦ The End of An Era ◦ Beagan's Just Rewards

Bill Beagan