Dylan Ghaemi
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Dylan Ghaemi
@GhaemiDylan
PHPA Certified Player Agent | IceBreakers Agency Stonehill College Hockey Alumni | Class of 2026

Chirping Dobes didn’t work for Tampa, let’s see how this one plays out

Need to know who the Montreal Canadiens sacrificed to the hockey gods to get this result in a game 7.

University of Maryland is freezing hiring and cutting at least 150 jobs while paying its football coach $6.1M, its men's basketball coach $3.4M, and still writing $1.2M checks to a coach who hasn't worked there in five years. The easy take is that coaches make too much, and the easy take is wrong IMO. Locksley's salary isn't the problem, Buzz Williams' salary isn't the problem, and Brenda Frese being one of the best coaches in women's basketball isn't the problem. In a market where the top rosters now cost $30 to $40M+ a year, those numbers are the cost of competing, and you need the right coaches to position you for long term success. The real problem is that athletic departments at flagship publics are operating on a revenue model built for decades ago, leaning on the same streams they have always relied on where most schools are operating at a deficit. Then they hit a 10% state funding cut and the only lever left is headcount in the academic buildings. This is the seam every athletic director in the country is sitting on right now, where the cost side has gone fully professional and the revenue side has not. The real answer isn't cutting custodians or capping coach pay, it's treating the athletic department like the commercial enterprise it already is, with the alumni base, the corporate relationships, and the brand inventory monetized at it's true value. Maryland has 400,000+ living alumni, one of the most valuable commercial assets the university owns. At most flagship publics, that base gets touched once a year for an annual giving ask and otherwise sits dormant. The athletic brand is the front door to all of it, and almost no school is monetizing it at anything close to its actual value. The coaches aren't bankrupting these schools, the missing revenue infrastructure is. Article link: foxbaltimore.com/news/local/uni…

Game 1… Canadiens win by 1 Game 2… Canadiens lose by 1 Game 3… Canadiens win by 1 Game 4… Canadiens lose by 1 Game 5… Canadiens win by 1 Game 6… Canadiens lose by 1 Game 7… Canadiens win by 1 This is the most insane thing I’ve ever seen.

Thank you, RJ. Here's RJ's Last Call from 4 years ago today (April 29, 2022). Casey Mittelstadt scored in OVERTIME to give the #Sabres the victory over the #Blackhawks. Here's that goal and RJ's parting words. #LetsGoBuffalo

NEWS: NCAA President Charlie Baker told ESPN today that he’s “pretty optimistic” that the new aged-based eligibility proposal will happen. The DI Board of Directors met today and will recommend to not implement this rule retroactively for graduates/exhausted eligibility. “If you’ve used up your eligibility, you’ve used it up,” Baker told ESPN of the tenor of the discussion.


I miss this



And as I say that, Mavs have reportedly added Joel Lehtonen from Stonehill as well. Lehtonen is the son of longtime Dallas Star Jere Lehtonen, which makes me feel very, very old








