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Sam Bergs lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey League has done more than polarize the countrys hockey community. It has split his family. Berg said his 71-year-old grandfather William, a retired General Motors employee, is ashamed of him for filing a landmark class action lawsuit against the Niagara IceDogs and the Ontario Hockey League last month. His grandfather, who now spends his days driving the Zamboni at the local rink in Beamsville, denies hes ashamed. He says simply he has a difference of opinion with his 18-year-old grandson. I have a different point of view, William Berg says. Thats all. I like Sam, I really like Sam. Sam Bergs case is one of three legal actions that may reshape major-junior hockey in Canada. Berg has asked an Ontario Superior Court to confirm that the 1,300-odd, mostly teenaged players in the Canadian Hockey League are employees of their teams. If they are employees, Berg argues, then they ought to be paid at least minimum wage. Some players in the CHL work more than 60 hours per week but make as little as $40 in compensation, his lawsuit alleges. Before Berg filed his lawsuit in a Toronto court, detailing his falling out with his former team, the IceDogs, Berg and his father Bill, who played 10 years in the NHL with the Islanders, Leafs, Rangers and Seantors, talked about what Sam Berg would likely be forced to deal with. There would be attacks on social media and in public. I have people giving me the finger all the time and I knew that would be the case, Sam Berg told TSN in an interview over lunch this week in a Hamilton diner. We knew this was going to be a problem for a lot of people. In Canada, hockey is more than a game. Everyone seems to know who Sidney Crosby is and who won the Stanley Cup the past five years. For someone to want to change the game, thats hard for people to accept. But without change, wed still have segregation and women wouldnt be able to vote. And we hoped some people would support us. When my dad was involved with the NHL players strike in 1994, it was a millionaires versus billionaires fight. Today, we figured that this would be seen as players just fighting for minimum wage. So we hoped we would at least get some support. Sam Berg insists his lawsuit isnt sour grapes. This is about helping all players, he says. What can you say about a system that pays some players the same as what they earned decades ago? The Bergs are a close-knit family. They live on a farm in Beamsville, Ont., with roots in the community that date back 300 years. The vineyard on their bucolic farm had a section cut out years ago to make room for a shinny rink where Sam and his sister Annie spent years learning to skate alongside their father, uncle Bob, who played in the American Hockey League, and their grandfather. We have spent a lot of time together, Sam Berg said. Family dinners, Christmases. We are close. So Berg was stunned at what happened when his grandpa found out about his lawsuit. William Berg called his son Bill, the former NHLer. He started going off to my dad about how our family would be portrayed in the community, Sam Berg said. He said people in the area would know him as the guy whose grandson ruined hockey. He was going on about how some teams are losing money and this would put them over the edge. My dad went back at him and asked when he became an expert in player contracts and the financial positions of the CHL teams and minimum-wage laws. Bill Berg, the former Maple Leaf, declined to comment on the rift within his family, other than to say he supports his sons efforts. It wasnt long before grandfather and grandson met at the Beamsville rink. The first thing he did, right away, was to talk about the finances of CHL teams and how I was going to screw up the league, said Sam Berg, whose sister Annie, a grade 11 student, recently committed to play hockey at St. Lawrence University. Then he asked me if I was planning to sue St. Lawrence University, too. My grandfather thinks this will destroy some CHL teams in small markets, but they dont look destitute to me, Sam Berg said. They have revenue sharing already. Maybe they need to do more sharing. I tried to tell my grandpa he was not banker to these teams, so he really doesnt know, but he just said to me, why would they lie? You are going to ruin them. My grandpa thinks because this is hockey, that everyone is respectable. And then, a parting shot. He said, What do I say if people ask me if its my grandson who is ruining hockey? Sam Berg said. I told him he didnt have to tell anyone I am his grandson. He didnt say anything. He just walked away. William Berg said he is worried, like many hockey fans, that if his grandsons lawsuit is successful, that some junior hockey teams will be forced to fold. I cant grasp Sams reasons for doing this, he said. I had two boys go through hockey and it was fine for them. There are teams like London and St. Catharines that could clearly afford to pay players, but what about the other teams that are borderline in Belleville or Peterborough. They are on tight budgets and if they fold, how many chances does that take away from boys. After playing with the single-A Lincoln Blades and Peak Academy, a Toronto-area high school that specializes in sports programs, Sam Berg was drafted by the United States Hockey Leagues Muskegon Lumberjacks. The OHLs IceDogs, who had drafted Berg in the 12th round of the 2012 draft, suggested he be better off in the OHL than playing in the USHL, which may have been a route to a scholarship at an NCAA team. So the IceDogs made a sweet offer, Berg says. He says they promised him that if he played a single game, he would be granted an irrevocable guaranteed four-year education scholarship. After a training camp where he scored twice in five games last season, Berg said he fell out of favour with the coaching staff after 16 games and then was demoted to the St. Catharines Falcons, a Junior B team. After a trade to the Thorold Black Hawks, Berg said he injured his shoulder in a game so badly that he would need surgery if he was going to keep playing. He decided along with his family it was time for full-time school. I called the IceDogs and said Id be needing my scholarship because I was going back to school, Berg says. They didnt say anything. They just hung up the phone on me. IceDogs owner Bill Burke declined to comment and referred questions about the lawsuit to CHL commissioner David Branch, who did not respond to an email seeking comment. IceDogs coach and general manager Marty Williamson told The Toronto Star that Bergs scholarship package was voided because he didnt report this fall to training camp. He quit, Williamson said. You cant just quit and not show up. The team is paying for one semester of Bergs courses at McMaster University this year. I guess I have a problem with it, too, because Sam wasnt there that long with the team, William Berg says. If it was Gretzky or someone who had been in the league for four years, fine. Maybe Sam got a raw deal, but he wasnt there that long. If he had put in a year or two, then maybe I would agree with it, but after five or 10 or 15 games, I think hes going out on a limb about it. But Im not ashamed of Sam, William says quietly after a long pause. This is a just a difference of opinion. A difference of opinion not only in the Berg family, but across the country. Gabe Holmes Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. Jamar Taylor Jersey . 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We went to a Norwood hockey store and picked her out some gear.TORONTO - As was the case in the Grey Cup last year, the Saskatchewan Roughriders had their way with Hamilton in the season opener last weekend, and now the team is tasked with taking on the Toronto Argonauts this Saturday afternoon at Rogers Centre. You can catch the action live on TSN at 3pm et/Noon pt. You can also listen to the game on NewsTalk 1010. Last November the Roughriders barely got their hands dirty as they mangled Hamilton in the title game, 45-23, and on Sunday night the reigning champs experienced similar success in the rematch as they cruised to a 31-10 home win. There were many aspects of the game in which Saskatchewan excelled, but the most notable area was with its pressure on quarterback Zach Collaros. Under heavy rain, Collaros had limited time to gain his footing and find open receivers, but to be sacked 10 times is still incredible. Leading the way for the Riders was defensive end Ricky Foley, who made a total of six tackles, three of those on Collaros in the backfield. Last season, Saskatchewan ranked third in the league in sacks with 57, so they are already off to a tremendous start in that department. It should also be noted that Hamilton was the weakest club in the league in terms of holding off would-be sackers, allowing 65 takedowns of signal-callers. For his efforts, Foley was named the Defensive and Canadian Player of the Week for Week 1. Because of the constant hitting under less than ideal conditions, the Tiger-Cats fumbled four times and lost possession twice. On the offensive side of the ball for the Riders, quarterback Darian Durant orchestrated a decent effort, converting 15-of-22 passes for 136 yards and a couple of touchdowns, but the real story was new running back Anthony Allen. Saskatchewan figured to have a huge hole to fill in the backfield with the departure of Kory Sheets, the leagues second-leading rusher a year ago (1,598 yards), as he made the move back to the NFL to join the Oakland Raiders, but Allen seems to have turned more than a few heads with his hard-nosed play coming out of the gate. Allen carried the ball 27 times for a game-high 158 yards, dwarfing the efforts of the entire Tiger-Cats rushing attack which managed to produce a mere 42 net yards. Allen, who crossed the goal line on a one-yard run in the second quarter, also caught a two-yard pass for a major earlier in the meeting.dddddddddddd While the Roughriders were again whipping up on Hamilton, the Argonauts were the ones taking a beating at the hands of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the season opener last Thursday night, 45-21. On paper, Toronto should have easily handled the hosts, but thats why they actually play the game. Ricky Ray, the quarterback with the top efficiency rating in the league a year ago, threw touchdown passes to Jason Barnes and Jeremiah Johnson in the second and third quarters, respectively, but that was only after the hosts lit up the scoreboard with 24 unanswered points to begin the meeting. Ray completed 27-of-38 passes for 283 yards, with Chad Owens being his favorite target with eight catches for 78 yards. Owens also pitched in with three punt returns for another 85 yards, one of those stretching for 83 yards and a major in the fourth quarter. Owens, who is always a threat to break a big play, was named the Special Teams Player of the Week for the seventh time in his career. Even though the Argos came out on the losing end in the first game of the season, the teams management is keenly aware of the value that Owens brings to the field each and every week, which is why the mighty sprite was signed to a contract extension through the 2015 campaign. Not limited to keeping only the skill players happy, Toronto also extended center Jeff Keeping it was announced on Monday. While he certainly doesnt get the same amount of press as Owens, Keeping has still made a name for himself after he was not only named an East Division All-Star, but won the Leo Dandurand Memorial Trophy as the East Divisions Outstanding Offensive Lineman following the 2013 campaign. Unfortunately, the Toronto defense had no answers for the Blue Bombers, a team that last season won a total of just three times. Bombers quarterback Drew Willy threw for a career-high 308 yards and four touchdowns while being named the CFL Offensive Player of the Week. Winnipeg generated 459 yards of offense, and kept the Toronto defense on the field for more than 36 minutes. Toronto trails in the all-time series between these two clubs, 46-37-1, when speaking of regular-season meetings dating back to 1961. 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