I have never seen Blake Cullen on ice skates, and to my knowledge he could not skate from blue line to blue line without breaking both of his legs. That said, this man played an enormous—almost immeasurable—role in the minor-league hockey boom that swept across the entire country in the early 1990s.

When he purchased an expansion team, the Hampton Roads Admirals of Norfolk, VA, the East Coast Hockey League was just another tiny low-level league that was not different from a lot of fly-by-night operations that had come and gone before. But Blake came in and, by applying hard work and simple business sense, turned the Admirals into a phenomenally successful franchise.

In a nutshell, Blake brings a major-league attitude to minor-league sports. A longtime baseball executive with his beloved Chicago Cubs and later with the national League, he spent years learning from people such as Phil Wrigley and Peter Uberroth. Along the way, he was constantly making notes, both mentally and in his ever-present notebooks. And when he became a team owner himself, taking advantage of the smaller scale of minor-league sports in an era when major-league teams are run by conglomerates rather than individuals, he began applying a lifetime of lessons in earnest.

~ Mike Holtzclaw

 

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