{"id":2628,"date":"2014-05-05T07:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T07:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:41:32","slug":"brian-petrovek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/brian-petrovek\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 108: Former CEO of the Portland Pirates Brian Petrovek"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a0108
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0April 19
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Brian Petrovek
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Former CEO\u00a0of the\u00a0Portland Pirates<\/a> Brian Petrovek grew up in the Greater Boston area.\u00a0 He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University, where he earned All-America honors as a goaltender and was twice named to the All-Ivy League First Team (1974-75, 1976-77). \u00a0In 1977, he was named the \u201cMost Valuable Player of the Beanpot\u201d, one of college hockey’s most prestigious tournaments. In October 1998, he was inducted into the Harvard University Athletic Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Steveo and Petrovek talked about how old they were when they both started playing hockey.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left)\u00a0talking hockey with Brian Petrovek (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Petrovek, who played youth hockey in the greater Boston area, was one of four goaltenders invited to the final U.S. Olympic Team Trials Camp in 1976. \u00a0He was drafted by both the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association in 1975.<\/p>\n

Petrovek joined as a Managing Owner and CEO of Portland Pirates LLC during the summer of 2000. \u00a0Petrovek came to the Pirates after working the previous seven years with USA Hockey, Inc. and The USA Hockey Foundation in Colorado Springs, Colorado.<\/p>\n

As Managing Owner and CEO, Petrovek oversaw the short and long term needs of the business, represents the franchise as an alternate governor at the League level, and participates regularly as a member of various league committees. He took the lead role in developing the Pirates’ winning bids for the 2003 Dodge AHL All-Star Classic and the 2010 Time Warner Cable AHL All-Star Classic joining Rochester, Hershey and Providence as the only cities to host more than one AHL All-Star event in the league’s history.\u00a0 Petrovek told Stevoe that he feels fortunate to have stayed in athletics after playing hockey for Harvard.<\/p>\n

Locally, Petrovek has served as Board Chair of the United Way of Greater Portland (2007-2009), was a member of the United Way’s Annual Campaign Cabinet since 2001-2010, and Chaired the 2004 United Way Annual Campaign. Petrovek is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Maine Sports Foundation.\u00a0 Petrovek is also an Adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern Maine, teaching in the university\u2019s Sports Management degree program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Woods host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe sat down to talk all things hockey with the former CEO of the Portland Pirates Brian Petrovek. The two discussed the NHL playoffs, their favorite hockey movies and their opinions on fighting in the sport. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}