Quote:Written Task: Offseason is good time to call your agent to make sure you both are on same page about your players career and any potential moves or upcoming contract negotiations that could be done during next season(s).

Agent could be someone who has been with your player since the beginning, relative or a old friend, or maybe a professional who oversees the finances of 20 or so other SHL players (while siphoning money from them all to buy more cards). They might only be hired for the contract negotiations or they might be just a call away to help your player with any problem they can think of.

Who is your player’s agent and what they do (and have done) for your player? If your player doesn't have an agent tell us why they don't.

My player doesn't have an agent.

Instead, he handles all contract negotiations himself.

The reason for this is that when he was just starting out in junior, he had a bad experience where an agent used the negotiation opportunity to negotiate personal benefits for the agent and not the player. Even though Jae-ik wanted assurances as to position and ice time, he got nothing of the sort. Instead, the agent got comped tickets to all the games for him and his family, and free parking near the arena, as well as free food and swag every home game.

Jae-ik has been rethinking this approach, however, as it's starting to become burdensome to handle the off-ice stuff himself at the same time as he's training and getting to know his new teammates. It's tough enough to be an SHLer, given the time commitments, but add to that off ice procurement, training, and making time for personal relationships, and it's a wonder he managed to hold down a roster spot this past season.