NHL Play Agent Jeff Jackson - Renaissance man
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Jackson, the Executive Vice President of Wasserman Hockey, and the agent for NHL superstar Connor McDavid, joins Craig on this week's Full 60. Jackson, who also represents Aaron Ekblad, Connor Brown and Alex Debrincat, discusses how he got into the agent business, originally working for Bobby Orr and Rick Curran. Jackson who went to University after his playing career with Quebec and Toronto was finished, became a lawyer, which paved the way for him to work in the NHL Office, and in the front office for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Jax, has seemingly done it all in hockey, even argued arbitration cases on behalf of teams, against players, before becoming an agent.
Jeff, never shy to offer an opinion, shares his feelings on protecting star players from getting cross checked in front of the net, on if McDavid will spend his entire career in Edmonton, and who is favorite GM is, to negotiate with.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:11.6 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of The Full 60. |
| 0:24.6 | I am thrilled to be joined by executive vice president of Wasserman Hockey. |
| 0:31.3 | And a person who, when I was doing some research, has been referred to in print as one of |
| 0:37.2 | hockey's true and rare Renaissance men. That's a true story, Jeff. Jeff Jackson, how are you? I'm good, Craig. How are you doing? I'm doing all right. True and rare Renaissance men. That's, you don't hear that description a lot for people in the sport. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, I guess not. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm not even sure what they mean by that. It may have to do with just kind of having done a lot of stuff and in the business and having |
| 1:08.1 | played and worked on the management side and then on the agent side, maybe that's |
| 1:12.3 | what they're referring to. |
| 1:13.2 | But I take it as a compliment, so I'll go with that. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.7 | No, I think it's a compliment. |
| 1:18.8 | Absolutely a compliment. |
| 1:21.1 | For just a little background, for the uninitiated, let's say, Jeff represents represents as part of the Wasserman group a couple |
| 1:29.6 | players off to decent start and Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid I actually laughed because I didn't |
| 1:36.0 | realize this you also represent Connor McMichael so you've got the whole and like three or four |
| 1:39.9 | other Connors it seemed like from by my math so you seem to have it cornered Connor Brown yeah we we have lots of Conners and it seemed like, by my mouth. So you seem to have it cornered. |
| 1:45.4 | Connor Brown, yeah. |
| 1:47.6 | We have lots of Conners. |
| 1:51.0 | And as long as they're good players, we love Conners. |
| 1:53.8 | And we're very fortunate to have all three of those guys. |
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