"It's not just the delivery of improved revenue and profits in a market as difficult as this one, " says Matthew Greenburgh, the co-head of Merrill Lynch's Global Financial Institutions Group and RBS' investment banker.
For instance, it was common for Jagr to leave his Upper West Side apartment in the evening and drive to the MSG Training Center in Greenburgh to hone his stick-handling and shooting skills after already having practiced with the team earlier in the day.