Art Kaminsky Gone at 66

Cornell alum, NHL super agent

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Ken Dryden article on Art Kaminsky, on Sports Illustrated today


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margolism
Cornell alum, NHL super agent

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Ken Dryden article on Art Kaminsky, on Sports Illustrated today

What a wonderful story. We should all be lucky enough to have the kind of friendship these two men had.

Fascinating guy. He really was driven to succeed but also personable. For a while before the internet, Art was a mainstay at dinky college hockey newsletter that was about the only way to follow college hockey. R.I.P.

billhoward
Fascinating guy. He really was driven to succeed but also personable. For a while before the internet, Art was a mainstay at dinky college hockey newsletter that was about the only way to follow college hockey. R.I.P.

Was that Don Birchmeyer's? (sp?)

Trotsky

billhoward
Fascinating guy. He really was driven to succeed but also personable. For a while before the internet, Art was a mainstay at dinky college hockey newsletter that was about the only way to follow college hockey. R.I.P.

Was that Don Birchmeyer's? (sp?)

Don T Birkmayer "The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter" He still lives at Kendell at Ithaca. I called him and he didn't yet hear about Art Kaminsky's death. So I'm glad you brought him up.

Jim Hyla

Trotsky

billhoward
Fascinating guy. He really was driven to succeed but also personable. For a while before the internet, Art was a mainstay at dinky college hockey newsletter that was about the only way to follow college hockey. R.I.P.

Was that Don Birchmeyer's? (sp?)

Don T Birkmayer "The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter" He still lives at Kendell at Ithaca. I called him and he didn't yet hear about Art Kaminsky's death. So I'm glad you brought him up.

Thanks I had wondered if Don Birkmayer was still alive when I read here about Kaminsky. Birkmayer was the long-time PA announcer at RPI. When he retired he moved to Ithaca where IIRC his son, also named Don, lived.

ursusminor

Birkmayer was the long-time PA announcer at RPI. When he retired he moved to Ithaca...

Because he got tired of all those fancy goals and high-scoring games in Troy?

ursusminor

Jim Hyla

Trotsky

billhoward
Fascinating guy. He really was driven to succeed but also personable. For a while before the internet, Art was a mainstay at dinky college hockey newsletter that was about the only way to follow college hockey. R.I.P.

Was that Don Birchmeyer's? (sp?)

Don T Birkmayer "The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter" He still lives at Kendell at Ithaca. I called him and he didn't yet hear about Art Kaminsky's death. So I'm glad you brought him up.

Thanks I had wondered if Don Birkmayer was still alive when I read here about Kaminsky. Birkmayer was the long-time PA announcer at RPI. When he retired he moved to Ithaca where IIRC his son, also named Don, lived.

He may live in Ithaca, but he's still RPI with email name "dtbrpi".

Here's another story about Art, this one in Newsday: http://www.newsday.com/sports/pioneering-sports-agent-art-kaminsky-dies-at-66-1.6558827

Both Dryden and Art were at MSG this year, and Art died the following Thursday. While we all have to suck it up and accept death, cancer, and similar misfortunes, what a missed opportunity for Cornell fans to show their appreciation for one of their greatest fellow fans on the eve of his departure from this life. This really hurts because it didn't have to be this way.

Maybe next year we can observe a minute of silence and respect.

Did not know about this and it saddens me to hear it.
Art introduced himself to me in my Sr. year and negotiated my contract with the Minnesota North Stars after I graduated from Cornell. He gave me what he termed, the 'Cornell Discount' (i.e. free) for doing the deal which was incredible.
He was generous and helpful to someone he didn't really even know and his loyalty to Cornell was remarkable.
66 years of age is way too early. Condolences to his family.

Pete Shier, '78

Art was a Cornellian who flew a bit lower on the recognizability radar than say Christopher Reeve. He was one of those people who gave Cornell its incredible vibrancy and diversity. How many high-powered lawyers do you know who continued to dabble in hockey* - first writing, then representing. Art had a little bit of Peter Pan ("I won't grow up" and still being a grownup as an adult.

* OK, one other Cornellian lawyer, at least, continues to dabble in hockey. But let's not hijack this thread.