Engagement rings are another frequent request. Players send photos of what they want and the firm forwards them to a custom jeweler in Canada who works for a reduced rate. (However, the Islanders’ Martin took a pass. “We used Boomer’s guy,’’ he said.)
Though it allows players to indulge, the service has less frivolous side. Brown oversees the packing and shipping of players’ belongings if they get traded mid-season. She helps with apartment leases and cell phone contracts, which are especially difficult to obtain for foreign players arriving in the U.S. with no credit history. (NHL contracts are paid in U.S. dollars, even though many players aren’t American citizens. Brown and Moynes, whose clients include citizens of Canada, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, pay close attention to exchange rates.)
The firm also negotiates for lower prices with various businesses clients use, ranging from a resort in the Bahamas popular for all-star break vacations to a shipping service that brings players’ cars home after the NHL season.
“In our business, you have to be concierge,’’ Moynes said. “We get paid as investment advisers, but at the end of the day my job is to manage their lifestyle.’’
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