Jamie Bozzo: Managing Players’ Careers

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Sports, Hockey

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sports Professional Management Inc. represents some big names in hockey, including William Nylander, Johnny Gaudreau, Torey Krug and Brandon Saad, and has a total value of active contracts that exceeds $222 million. Jamie Bozzo handles client relationships for SPM, dealing with players and their families on all kinds of specialized scenarios. She joins Jeff and Elliotte for a wide-ranging discussion about prepping clients for free agency, working with players and organizations around trades, financial advice and much more, including detailing the work put in on Nylander’s down-to-the-wire extension with the Maple Leafs in late 2018. Music Outro: Cayley Thomas – Midnight Hours Check out Cayley’s EP “How Else Can I Tell You?” here: http://www.cayleythomas.com/ Listen to all our Season 3 music on Spotify. This podcast is produced and sound designed by Amil Delic, and hosted by Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman. Archival support for this episode was provided by Daniel Centeno. Audio Credits: ABC News, KMOV, NHL Network and Sportsnet 590 The FAN. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

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0:00.0	That's some good stuff.
0:03.0	Welcome once again to a, how do we call this, Elliot, bonus edition of 31 Thoughts, the
0:09.8	podcast.
0:10.8	Jamie Bozo is someone you should know if you don't already
0:15.3	uh... she works client relations for spiam uh... that is Louis gross agency
0:20.1	and she kind of does i don't want to say everything because I don't want to insult
0:24.6	Lewis Gross like that but she does everything for Lewis Gross Elliot.
0:30.4	The phrase I use is that she's his brain. I first met her I believe during the World Cup of Hockey and then I ran into her once and we kind of talk about it in the interview
0:40.8	She was in town when the flames were in Toronto and she was meeting with Johnny
0:46.0	Goudreau and you know I started talking with her a little bit about she didn't want to
0:50.8	give a lot of it away you you know, mind your own business, get lost,
0:54.9	I'm talking to my client, it's none of your business, go away, don't ask me anything about it.
0:59.7	But you know, at times, you know, we've kind of talked about her role and what she does and you know I just
1:08.4	thought it was interesting I was thinking about free agency and everything that was going on and what a whirlwind it is and they've
1:17.5	had some pretty high profile situations in the past few years.
1:21.6	Tori Krug here, Willie Nelander a year ago, Brandon Sad, one of their clients just got traded,
1:28.0	Goodrose in the middle of rumors, we don't know what Calgary is going to do, and I just thought it was a fun conversation to have about what exactly the job entails, what kinds of things you have to deal with because when we think about agents, a lot of us probably think of Ari Gold from Onterage, or Jeff, people who are closer to our age think about Arles, which was a pretty popular HBO show about I guess 20 years ago, you know, these are the kinds of things
1:54.8	that I think people wonder about is it really like this. You know I brought it up to
2:00.6	her actually a few weeks ago and she said after free agency.
2:05.0	She said let's get us through that first so, you know, Krug, saw it, hopefully that makes the
2:10.6	interview better.
2:12.0	And here she is. This was a lot of fun and not only was it a lot of fun was really educational as well.
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