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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.
ANAHEIM DUCKS
OWNERSHIP HENRY & SUSAN SAMUELI FANS HEADING TO the Anaheim Ducks’ home games this season must navigate around a construction site. All around the Honda Center, large crews of workers guiding tons of heavy equipment are building OCVibe, a 100-acre development that will surround the existing arena with a lavish campus featuring shopping, dining, music venues, hotels, parks, apartments and workplaces. Henry and Susan Samueli are clearly building something impressive down in Orange County – even if that something isn’t a winning hockey team quite yet. Not many stewards of professional sports teams mired in lengthy playoff droughts have as much local public goodwill as the Samuelis, the billionaire owners of the Ducks. That’s because they’ve spent 19 years proving their commitment to competing for Stanley Cups in a non-traditional hockey market with a…
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…
ST. LOUIS BLUES
OWNERSHIP TOM STILLMAN THE CHAIRMAN AND CEO of Summit Distributing, a St. Louis-based beer distributor, Tom Stillman entered the business in 1994 after previously working as a lawyer. He bought a minority stake in the Blues from Dave Checketts in 2007, then purchased majority ownership of the franchise – along with local partners Jerald Kent, Donn Lux, James Cooper, Jo Ann Taylor Kindle, Steve Maritz, Edward Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Taylor, David Steward, Jim Kavanaugh, John Danforth, Christopher Danforth, Jim Johnson III, Scott McCuaig, John Ross Jr. and Tom Schlafly – for about $130 million in May 2012. Stillman has been able to maintain an all-local ownership group and preserved that in July when Steward sold his partial ownership stake to Michael W. Riney, the founder and managing director of QRM Capital. Stillman…
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
OWNERSHIP DAN HILFERTY WHILE ADMINISTRATION IN professional hockey isn’t specifically in Dan Hilferty’s background, the ability to improve on something in virtually any business venture certainly fits into his resume. At least, that’s been the case since he took over as chairman and CEO of Comcast Spectacor, the sports-and-entertainment entity that owns the Philadelphia Flyers, in July 2023. His knack for finding the right people and the right plan to get the job done made him a natural choice when the Flyers were looking for a turn of fortunes, including the end of a playoff drought which has now reached four years. One can go all the way back to the early 1980s for the first clue that Hilferty might fit this “builder” profile. The 67-year-old native of Ocean City, N.J., once worked…
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