Career
In 2008, Brisson was named 12th most powerful agent in all of sports by the Sports Business Journal and is consistently ranked as one of the 100 most powerful people in the National Hockey League (National Hockey League) by The Hockey News. He has negotiated hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts during his career for the players he represents. The Hollywood Reporter did a piece on Brisson, A Day in the Life of Civil Aeronautics Administration"s Very own Jerry MacGuire (Hollywood Reporter).
Just prior to the National Hockey League trade deadline in March 2014, Brisson engineered a trade between the Vancouver Canucks and the Florida Panthers for client Roberto Luongo.
During the 2014 off-season, he then negotiated matching eight-year, $84 million contracts—the highest average annual value of any contract since the introduction of the National Hockey League"s salary cap in 2005—for Chicago Blackhawks teammates Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. Since 2005, Brisson has represented first overall selections in the National Hockey League Entry Draft, including three consecutive (Sidney Crosby in 2005, Erik Johnson in 2006, Patrick Kane in 2007).
Brisson is the agent for John Tavares, who went first in the 2009 Draft and for Nathan MacKinnon, who went first in 2013. Additional clients Brisson represents include Jonathan Bernier, Daniel Brière, Matt Duchene, Claude Giroux, Carl Hagelin, Seth Jones, Kyle Okposo and Max Pacioretty, among others
Over the course of his career, he has represented Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Luc Robitaille, Chris Chelios and Rob Blake, as well as Martin Brodeur, the winningest goaltender in National Hockey League history.
Brisson moved to Los Angeles in 1987. In the early 1990s, Brisson founded "Skate with the Pros" and "California Dreamin"—youth hockey schools that feature National Hockey League stars and coaches as instructors. He was an important figure in the growth of hockey in Southern California with his involvement with Iceoplex, a chain of ice rinks.
Brisson enjoyed a successful junior hockey career in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), averaging over a point per game with the Verdun Juniors, Drummondville Voltigeurs and Hull Olympiques, where he played for future National Hockey League coach Pat Burns and played with National Hockey League great Luc Robitaille.