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Money & Power 2019
The Hockey News inaugural Money & Power special edition is 124 pages packed with features exploring the financial side of the sport. Inside, you’ll find our annual Top 100 People of Power and Influence, NHL team reports including a profile of every team’s owner, how the business of the NHL works, the latest on CBA negotiations between the NHL and NHLPA, and much more.
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TOP 15 NHL GMs
NO. 5 | JARMO KEKALAINEN AGE: 52 | TOP 100: 100COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS GM LESS THAN SIX weeks after he was hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets in February 2013, GM Jarmo Kekalainen pulled off one of the biggest trades in franchise history, sending Derick Brassard, John Moore and Derek Dorsett to the New York Rangers in exchange for Marian Gaborik and two minor-leaguers. Three years later, Kekalainen swung one of the biggest 1-for-1 trades in recent memory, shipping Blue Jackets’ top-line center Ryan Johansen to Nashville for defenseman Seth Jones. The first trade stated Kekalainen’s arrival in the NHL, his willingness to make a splash. The second one proved his fearlessness in trading a franchise centerpiece such as Johansen. There have been other blockbusters, too. But now Kekalainen, the NHL’s first European GM, finds…
NEW YORK RANGERS
HEADED BY PATRIARCH Charles F. Dolan, the founder of Cablevision Systems Corporation, the Dolan family has owned Madison Square Garden, the New York Rangers and New York Knicks, the MSG Network and other venues, including Radio City Music Hall, for 20 years – and has no plans for selling the teams. But since the Long Island family gained complete control of the teams in 1997, the face of the franchises and the most visible presence at games has been Charles’ son James L. Dolan, 63, who is executive chairman of the MSG companies. And the business model is changing. A cable television pioneer, Charles Dolan is now 92, and for decades he had concentrated on that side of the empire. Now, the younger Dolan has shifted to investing in state-of-the-art, live entertainment venues…
THE CONCIERGE
“I’M A GUY who likes to push the needle,” says Pat Brisson. It’s a fitting image as hockey’s most powerful player agent is calling from his car on a Los Angeles freeway. Brisson means that he is always looking to innovate, to extend the limits of what is thought possible to gain an edge on the competition. That character trait was on display last June when coaches, GMs and team presidents from six NHL teams flew to L.A. for appointments at Brisson’s office in the imposing headquarters of Creative Artists Agency. The glistening glass and steel structure is striking for its hulking size and a dramatic, eight-storey aperture that pierces its center. In Hollywood circles the building is known as The Dark Star in recognition of the envy and fear it…
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