Complex sentence: Toronto Maple Leafs owner, Harold Ballard had special gold medals made up for the Canadian team: I believe the Canadian boys deserve the gold medal and I'm going to see to it that they get them.
Split into simpler sentences: Toronto Maple Leafs owner, Harold Ballard had special gold medals made up for the Canadian team. Ballard stated that I believe the Canadian boys deserve the gold medal and I'm going to see to it that they get them.