Ted Leonsis

Jeremy Jacobs previously relinquished his role as chairman of the NHL Board of Governors in September.

That top spot is now held by Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis.

And over the 51-year tenure, Jeremy Jacobs shaped the modern NHL, most notably pushing for the hard salary cap system that triggered the the 2004-05 season-long lockout alongside NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

Now, Jacobs has been, and Jeremy, I mean, a fairly polarizing figure in Boston.

Now, when it

comes

to Charlie's vision, he emphasized continuity, stating his goal is to build upon his father's legacy while continuing to oversee Delaware North alongside his brothers, Jerry Jacobs Jr. and Lou Jacobs Jr. He'll collaborate with Ted Leonsis, Vice Chair Murray Edwards, Commissioner Gary Bettman to help continue to grow the game.

And, you know, we've seen in recent years, Don Sweeney, Cam Neely have the full support of Charlie Jacobs and the way that they started off this season.

Yeah.

Uh, I am looking forward to partnering with the board of governors, their chairman, Ted Leonsis, as well as vice chair, Murray Edwards, our peers, commissioner Bettman, and continuing to grow this beautiful game that we all love.

So the Jacobs is just still going to be highly influential within the league on the board of governors.

And he's taking over, which I wish my dad on the team.

Did you see the NBA also just signed deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to be the official prediction market partners of the association? So, once again, these sports leagues that had been adamantly anti-gambling now have two fists, Andy, in the gambling pots with the DraftKings and the FanDuels, and then two more fists over here into the pots of the prediction markets, and they're like...

Our buddy Tom Levero calls Ted Leonsis Ace Rothstein.

That's what it is.

He can't wait to get in.

Alyssa Silverman made that point several times.

And there is a concern with the Bowser administration that this would compete with Ted Leonsis' Capital One Arena in terms of concerts and other entertainment performances.

And this is where we are now after that hearing.

There needs to be some more talks between the team and the city.

That's a huge argument, which we're not going to settle or discuss much here today.

The other is, is the mayor, there is some concern.

Ted Leonsis, who owns the arena, and the city's already spending, I think, $800, something, $400, $800 million down there for over several years.

to rebuild that, and it's underway.

Utah Darren says more owners should let the GMs and coaches run that part of the operation, knowing that if results aren't what they want, they can change it in a hurry.

And Scott in Vancouver says not meddling owners like Ballard, Leonsis, and the great Jerry Jones.

Well, Leonsis won a Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals, but I'll put Harold Ballard and Jerry Jones in the same thing.

And Kev, since you're sitting there as a Vancouver sports guy

like you are, you have