Rick Komarow

Rick Komarow is an NHL player agent with Maverick Sports Management, a hockey representation practice connected to high-level NHL contracts and a client base with a strong Russian and international player profile. His work focuses on player representation, contract negotiation, roster-positioning strategy and career management for NHL players navigating the North American hockey market. Komarow’s representation profile is most prominently associated with Igor Shesterkin, one of the NHL’s elite goaltenders. His work around Shesterkin has placed him at the center of major goaltender-market discussions, including negotiations that helped reset the top of the NHL goalie salary structure. Komarow has also been connected to NHL players such as Dmitri Voronkov, Pavel Dorofeyev, Danila Yurov, Sergei Murashov and Nikita Novikov, reflecting a practice with meaningful ties to Russian-born talent and international player transitions into the NHL. Komarow’s profile reflects a specialized hockey-agent model built around salary-cap awareness, contract leverage, player trust and cross-border career guidance. His work is especially relevant to players moving from European or Russian development environments into the NHL, where representation requires not only contract negotiation but also understanding roster fit, timing, adaptation, team relationships and long-term career planning in a highly competitive market.