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Residency – Not A Decision To Be Left On Ice

This is a guest post by Jeffrey Steinberg C.A., Partner, Audit & Advisory at Soberman LLP. You have just signed a contract, and are ready to embark on or continue your career as a professional hockey player. But then it blindsides you like an open-ice body check – the realization that you must share part […]

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Rookie Duties – On Location In Moscow, Russia

Sitting here at the dacha (what us Americans would call a summer house) of one of my advisees and close friend, Sem Golikov, it’s amazing looking back on the past seven days. It’s been an exhausting trip so far with flight delays, connection changes, brutal jet lag, major cultural differences (although at least I knew […]

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Rookie Duties: The Clock is Ticking

It is t-minus seven days until my trip to Moscow is officially underway. I still have a couple of Russian kids looking for spots on Junior teams in North America, and optimally I’d like to have something set up for them by the time I’m 30,000 feet over the Atlantic…but my date of departure is […]

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Rookie Duties: Help Me, Help You!

Ever have those weeks when the work just never stops coming? You know – those ones when it seems as though just as you wrap up one issue, another follows right in its footsteps ready to smack you in the face? Sure, in this business, a busy agenda is usually a good thing…but at a […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (7/2/2010)

Friday really crept up on me!  I had no idea it was Friday until a couple of hours ago and then realized that I needed to churn out the weekly Friday Wrap-Up.  With so much going on in my personal, professional, and scholastic lives, I guess my forgetfulness is somewhat justified.  Anyway, big time congratulations […]

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INTRODUCING: The Sports Agent Directory

The Sports Agent Directory is the most comprehensive sports agent directory in the world.  Sure, we provide links to various agency websites in our Sports Agencies feature, but the Sports Agency Directory, which is offered by Sports Agent 411, LLC provides everything you could possibly need in terms of information regarding athletes and their agents. […]

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Rookie Duties: Here He Comes And There He Goes

Remember last week how I mentioned that by now I know to expect the unexpected with my work? Well Kuchin must have read my column Monday morning because within just a few hours of it posting on the SAB website, I got a call from Kuch at the rink: “Scott – when do you think […]

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Rookie Duties: Turning the Heat Up

First off, I want to wish all our veterans and active members of the armed services a very happy Memorial Day. We often take the freedoms that we have as Americans for granted, and all those responsible for providing us with the rights that we now have deserve to be thanked for all the sacrifices […]

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Rookie Duties: The Russian Connection

With just over a month until the 2010 NHL Draft, things around my office are starting to pick back up big time. To be honest, I can’t believe the Draft is only 31 days away. My week began with a Monday afternoon lunch meeting with the coaching staff of the Chicago Steel. They wanted to […]

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Rookie Duties: One Step Closer

Well, with another week in the books, it seems as if we’re continuing to inch closer to some sort of resolution with Andrey’s situation for the 2010-11 season…but we’re still not there yet. After not hearing back from Zhamnov last week, I asked Kuchin to speak with him in person and explain that he needed […]