Norfolk Admirals
Patrick Cavanagh has extensive experience in the sports and real estate sectors, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Owner of the Norfolk Admirals since June 2019, overseeing an ECHL professional hockey team. Additionally, Cavanagh holds the position of Chairman for the Hampton Roads Whalers-Whaler Nation, a leading skills development program in USA hockey, and is the President and Owner of Chilled Ponds Ice Sports Complex, which facilitates a wide range of skating programs and serves as the practice facility for the Norfolk Admirals. In the real estate field, Cavanagh is the President of Three-Quarters Full Properties, managing various properties across multiple states, and serves as the Virginia/Mid-Atlantic Director for Liberty Solutions, focusing on distressed asset management. Cavanagh previously owned Raleigh Center Ice and was President of CDHP, a developmental hockey program that trained over 30,000 players worldwide.
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Norfolk Admirals
The Norfolk Admirals is an ECHL professional hockey team proudly representing the Hampton Roads region and the 1.8-million-member community of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News and Northeastern North Carolina. With 31 incredible years of success, including three ECHL Championships and one American Hockey League Championship, the Admirals are distinguished as one of the longest-standing ECHL teams to maintain the same team name and home location. Under the direction of legendary head coach John Brophy for its initial 11 seasons, the Admirals earned three ECHL titles and secured numerous records in wins, championships and league-wide attendance. In recognition of his winning career, the ECHL later named its Coach of the Year Award in Brophy’s honor. In 2019, the Norfolk Admirals was acquired by former Admiral Patrick Cavanagh. An “original Admiral” who played on the team from 1989-1991, Cavanagh contributed to the Hampton Roads Admirals’ first ECHL championship in 1991 before going on to play for the New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues and Tampa Bay Lightning NHL organizations. After taking ownership of the team and looking to carry the Admirals’ exceptional history into the future, Cavanagh named Rod Taylor, the Admirals’ all-time most decorated player and Hall of Fame member, to Head Coach. Always, our standard is one marked by excellence.