Recently named one of the 10 most powerful people in hockey by Sports Illustrated, Pat Brisson keeps his clients -- including $100 million kid Sidney Crosby -- happy the old-fashioned way: by working for them 24/7.
"I'm pretty structured," says Pat Brisson, sports agent and co-head of CAA's hockey division. "I have no choice because there are too many balls in the air." Those balls represent, in part, a client roster that includes five No. 1 NHL draft picks since 2005, including Sidney Crosby, for whom he negotiated a 12-year, $104.4 million contract extension with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Brisson is busiest during the weeks from mid-June to early July that span the draft, the league's free agency period and then CAA's prospects camp, where they look at teens to possibly sign. "But there's never such a thing as not busy," says the 48-year-old Quebec native, who travels about one week a month. It's no wonder, then, that he makes the most of his time in his Century City office or home in Marina del Rey with his wife and two sons -- even his off-hours are devoted to the sport he's loved, and played, since he was a kid.
6:15 a.m.
Wakes up to 30 to 40 new e-mails in his inbox.
7 a.m.
Brisson -- who played on Quebec's storied Hull Olympiques junior hockey team with best friend Luc Robitaille, a Los Angeles Kings legend and now the team's president of business operations -- works out for about an hour, either at Equinox or at his home gym. "I try to get a workout in first thing in the morning; otherwise you don't get to it," he says. "I do circuits and stuff like that. I can't compete anymore, but I keep myself in pretty good shape, so I can go on the ice and scrimmage with [the players]. It's helped us to bond."
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