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Money & Power 2025
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
KATHERINE HENDERSON
W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: You’ve been involved in sports for decades. What got you all excited about getting into sports years ago? KATHERINE HENDERSON: It was an interesting one. I started my career as a packaged-goods marketer, and I ended up on the sponsorship end of things. I was working on some of the very first Olympic sponsorships with General Mills. I worked for Colgate-Palmolive for a number of years, and we had sponsorships related to the NHL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, women’s professional golf, as well as a lot of amateur sport. And so, coming through that, I was quite interested. As my career started to really flourish, I was in Toronto when they were bidding for the Pan Am Games. And because I had seen what games, major games,…
BRIAN MACLELLAN
W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: When you were growing up, what was it that motivated you to make it to the NHL? BRIAN MACLELLAN: I grew up like most Canadian kids. I was a Montreal Canadiens fan growing up because my father was. On Saturday nights, we’d watch games. You fall in love with the game because you did something as a family and talked about it a lot. You grow up wanting to play. Every chance we had as kids, we’d go outside and play road hockey. We’d go down to the rink and play. You’re constantly talking and playing. Your life revolves around hockey. I don’t think it was a goal of, “Hey, I want to make the NHL.” At some point, it became, “I want to play junior in Guelph.”…
NEW JERSEY DEVILS
OWNERSHIP DAVID BLITZER THOUGH NOT ENTIRELY distinct, there are two noticeable chapters in David Blitzer’s career. The first relates to his work in investment and private equity, which began when he joined the firm Blackstone upon graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The second has been defined by one thing: sports ownership. Over the past decade-plus, Blitzer has become a near-ubiquitous face in sporting circles across leagues, countries and even continents. It began with Blitzer – alongside partner Josh Harris, the Devils’ vice chairman and alternate governor, with whom he would later found Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment – forming an investment group to lead the purchase of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, and it has only grown from there. Since acquiring the Devils and their arena, the…
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
OWNERSHIP DANNY WIRTZ NO ONE IS about to confuse the franchise with a mom-and-pop shop, but the Blackhawks are a family business. The Wirtz family first came to lead the franchise in the 1950s, when Arthur Wirtz and James D. Norris took ownership, and it came solely under the family’s umbrella following Norris’ death in 1966. From there, there has been a line of succession. Three generations of Wirtz patriarchs have handed the reins to a son – ownership has transferred from Arthur to Bill to Rocky and, following Rocky’s death in 2023, to Danny. He’s not an altogether fresh face atop the organization, however. Before he rose to chairman, Danny Wirtz was intimately involved with not just the Blackhawks but all of the Wirtz Corporation holdings, which includes Wirtz Realty, banking interests…
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