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$content	=	"<p>The Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) shut out a former hockey player who sued the editor of his memoir for almost $3,000.&nbsp;</p>

<p>George Pesut authored 2024&rsquo;s&nbsp;<i>The Fourth Period - Between the Ice Sheets: Hockey on Two Continents.</i></p>

<p>He was unhappy with editing by Sally Jennings (doing business as PTO Editing) and sought a $2,890 refund. Jennings disputed the claim, saying that the editing work was high quality.</p>

<p>Pesut hired Jennings in March 2022 and paid a 50 per cent deposit of $1,445 on March 28 of that year, towards the quoted $2,890. Jennings completed the initial edit in less than a month and provided a final edit of the manuscript in June 2022. Pesut paid the remaining $1,445 on July 27, 2022.&nbsp;</p>

<p>He complained to the tribunal after he allegedly discovered grammar, spelling and punctuation errors in the book.&nbsp;</p>

<p>CRT member Maria Montgomery, in a Jan. 14 decision, said she did not read the book, but instead reviewed the first 50 pages of each version provided by Pesut and Jennings.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Montgomery found only 11 such errors in the first 50 pages.</p>

<p>&ldquo;For the most part, Mr. Pesut appears to take issue with Sally Jennings&rsquo; failure to further polish his writing or adjust his slightly informal writing style,&rdquo; Montgomery wrote.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Montgomery wrote that even if Jennings&rsquo; work had been deficient, the claim would have been disallowed because Pesut did not provide Jennings the opportunity to correct the deficiencies.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&ldquo;Normally, a contractor has a contractual right to have a reasonable opportunity to correct any deficiencies,&rdquo; Montgomery wrote.</p>

<p>Saskatoon-born defenceman Pesut, who played for the WHL Victoria Cougars before the team moved to Prince George, was picked 24th overall in 1973&rsquo;s NHL draft (by the St. Louis Blues) and 24th overall in the WHA draft (by the Cleveland Crusaders).&nbsp;</p>

<p>He played for the NHL&rsquo;s California Golden Seals in 1974-74 and WHA&rsquo;s Calgary Cowboys in 1975-76 before returning to the minors. More than half his career was spent with teams in Switzerland, France and Germany.&nbsp;</p>

<p>One of those German teams, ECD Iserlohn, was kept alive in 1987 by a jersey sponsorship deal with Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Pesut told The Victoria Times-Colonist in 2024 that his inspiration for the book was major league pitcher Jim Bouton&rsquo;s classic diary, Ball Four.</p>
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