[4] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University in 1981 with a bachelor of science in civil engineering.

[6] After leaving Fidelity, he started hedge fund Vinik Asset Management, with partners including Michael Gordon (now President of Fenway Sports Group).

Vinik could not be in the NHL's bubbles in Edmonton or Toronto, so he called into his players' locker room celebration, "congratulating them for their second Stanley Cup championship in team history" after their win over the Stars, according to Pat Pickens of NHL.com.

Vinik, who purchased the franchise in 2010, was in Florida watching the Lightning complete their 18-7 run through the Stanley Cup Playoffs and "had to tell his players how happy he was."

In Tampa, Alexis Muellner writes winning hockey has "been the goal since" Vinik bought the team in 2010.

Sports Business Journal profiled Vinik in 2015 following the Lightning's second appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals.