![]() ![]() Once he said yes, it was up to Moldaver and Rachel Feucht, Wasserman’s director of hockey operations and client services, to negotiate. (His father) Brian has always encouraged outside-the-box thinking.” It is Auston and his family’s openness and creativity that allows for all of this. “Our question to him was: This is new, it’s fresh, if we can make this work, what do you think? Our mission for Auston is to not only be interesting for a hockey player, but to be interesting, period. “I don’t know if he - or we - think about going first, but, 'Does Auston have authentic interest in this?’” Moldaver said. But, being the first individual, especially when it comes to gambling, it takes a thick skin. The Blackhawks announced this week that one will be going into the United Center. So does CapitalOne Arena, home of, well, the Capitals. In 10 years, we’re all going to be looking back at this like, “What’s the big deal?” Prudential Center, where the Devils play, has a sports book. An active athlete representing a sports book is groundbreaking in North America, but it’s where we’re going. “This is still evolving, we’ve got to see where the dust settles. “We only wanted to ask him to be in a ‘free-to-play’ space,” Honegger said. Matthews will link only to the free-to-play site,. Also, the link in St-Pierre’s marketing is to the company’s pay site. In his ads, he holds up a phone with the company logo. (Full disclosure: The ad debuted on Sportsnet.) The key message he wanted to send was they were going to be very conservative.įor example, another Bet99 ambassador is Georges St-Pierre. “We started talking, and it took several months to get over the finish line,” Honegger said Tuesday. A co-founder of Bet99, he reached out to Matthews’ representative, Wasserman Hockey’s Judd Moldaver. ![]() Honegger, who played for QMJHL Hull in 1985-86 and represented Switzerland in the 1992 Winter Olympics, helped facilitate Matthews’ pre-draft 2015-16 season in Zurich. It cleared players to participate in advertising “related to” betting and “can endorse or have a promotional involvement with Sports Books,” provided that: single-sport betting is legal where the betting entity operates the endorsement is legal in that jurisdiction the “endorsement activity” does not promote betting on NHL games the player is not shown betting and it “is not intended to establish or advance a relationship between the betting entity and a club unless the club already has a relationship with the entity.”ĭays later, news of the memo reached Doug Honegger. 22, the NHLPA informed players and agents that it had reached a deal with the NHL for “participation” in the world of legal sports betting. It’s not even seven years, how antiquated that feels now. Players were not allowed to appear in casinos. He showed up on the screen, and I couldn’t help thinking about Tony Romo.īack in June 2015, the NFL shut down the Dallas quarterback’s Fantasy Football event at a Las Vegas casino. In case you doubted that, flash back two Saturdays. “I think it's cool to go outside the box and try new things,” he said. Moments after Toronto defeated New Jersey 7-1 on Tuesday night, Auston Matthews indicated he’ll be participating in the Bellagio Fountain Faceoff during Friday night’s skills competition at All-Star. Why the Kings believe they're growing stronger.Canucks keeping options open with JT Miller.Might Winnipeg head to Del Boca Vista for their next head coach? Stay tuned to find out. After two seasons there he made the move to the AHL where he spent two seasons as the bench boss of the Iowa Wild before ultimately joining the Lightning as an assistant coach for the last four seasons. Lalonde spent a good chunk of time coaching in the NCAA before spending a few seasons in the USHL as a GM/Head Coach and then jumping to the pro ranks in 2014-15 with the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL. ![]() He transitioned to coaching in the AHL with the Lightning affiliate in Syracuse where he was an assistant coach for two seasons before jumping to the Bolts for the last four seasons as an assistant coach. Halpern played just under 1000 games in the NHL primarily with the Washington Capitals (four seasons) and Lightning (three seasons) during his 13 year career. I also wonder now about Andrew Brunette and I would be curious to see, does Winnipeg involve anybody here as part of their search?” We named Tocchet, Montgomery, Arniel & Vincent. We talked about the four of the guys that we thought were kinda in this. “Well I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve been interviewed already. On the 32 Thoughts Podcast which was released today, Jeff Marek asked Elliotte Friedman about how quickly any of the Tampa Bay Lightning assistant coaches (Jeff Halpern and Derek Lalonde) get poached by an NHL team. ![]()
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