Summary
North-East ice hockey franchise Mobilx Vipers rose Phoenix-like last year to clinch top spot in the national league after a decade in the doldrums. Nigel Stirling talks to club chairman Paddy O'Connor about his life in business and sport and the club's miraculous turnaround.
Paddy O'Connor maintains he could never have commanded a place in the highest profile ice hockey competition in the world.See the full content of this document
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Paddy has Put His Business On Ice
But with some 350 caps for England and Great Britain, the 30- year old chairman of North-East ice hockey franchise Mobilx Vipers has scaled the heights of the game in this country.
And after a successful rescue of the Newcastle-based club from liquidation last year to go alongside a pounds 5m utilities company built up after a career-ending injury in the mid-1990s, he is on track to repeat the feat in the world of business."The standard of play over [in America's National Hockey League] is considerably higher than in the UK. Their guys might come over here to play at the end of their careers but you did not necessarily go over there from here," O'Connor notes rue...See the full content of this document
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