Chris Zimmerman

know so so it was uh and probably could have been even sooner than that i i was just just just just made the shift and and then you know um didn't take long before you get back doing work with the blues and and uh which i've been doing uh pretty much ever since so uh you know on and off i don't want to give you the impression that i'm there every day or or you know That's not true at all.

That staff that's there right now, the ownership, first of all, but then the staff, Tom Stillman and his group, Chris Zimmerman and his team, Hall of Fame first ballot leadership.

They don't really need a lot of agency help, but I am called in on occasion and I'm privileged when I am.

So the Blues are dealing with a pretty tough television situation right now.

All right.

Always great to have Chris Zimmerman with us.

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Today, we're bringing together United Way CEO, Michelle Tucker, and co-chairs to this year's United Way campaign, Blues president and CEO Chris Zimmerman, and from Brian Cave, the sports and entertainment attorney, Ryan Davis.

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Ryan, Chris, Michelle, welcome today.

And I know you guys are the leaders in that.

And we'll thank you for being here.

Chris Zimmerman, I'd like to call you a friend, and I love the work that you do, and I know you're going to bring us the Stanley Cup this year.

But tell the group here, and I look back, like, have you been here 10 years in St. Louis? Is that crazy?

I think Jim Riswall from Wide Moon Kennedy, who also played on the Nike men's league team on Tuesday nights.

Chris Zimmerman from Nike Advertising was involved.

He went on to be the president of the St. Louis Blues.

He did.

And it was really fantastic.

The people you mentioned in Nike Hockey, those are the people that made that experience really special, really special, Mark.

I think as I was kind of coming up through Nike and a bunch of different jobs, both New York, Beaverton, the Netherlands, the people that had an influence on me mentioned, we mentioned Charlie Denson already, a great mentor of mine, Mark Duggan, great mentor of mine, people I admired, Gary DeStefano, Chris Zimmerman, we mentioned him, a really special person that I work for.

Talk about caring for your people was a guy named Kirk Richardson.

Not, not, not fair to them.

I, I will tell you that, uh, that the league is working hard on it and, you know, our, our, our, our group, Chris Zimmerman and Steve Chapman and the rest of the group have been, you know, impressed with the way the, the league is jumping on this and, and, and trying to get it done, so.

Um, I, I, I think it'll get resolved soon.

Tom, speaking of those fans, uh, you know, you get to be a part of these every single year, and you got this home opener rally that's gonna be taking place for people, that they get out there.