Rob Concannon

Rob Concannon
Born December 2, 1970 (1970-12-02) (age 41)
Dorchester, MA, USA
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position Left Wing
Shot Left
Played for AHL
St. John's Maple Leafs
Saint John Flames
ECHL
South Carolina Stingrays
Greenville Grrrowl
CHL
Fayetteville Force
WCHL
Idaho Steelheads
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 1995–2003

Rob Concannon (born 2 December 1970 in Dorchester, Massachusetts) is the President of the ECHL South Carolina Stingrays minor league ice hockey club, having played in the late 1990s and early 2000s for the club, winning one of the teams' three ECHL Kelly Cup championships (1997) Inducted into teams Hall of Fame (2003) Now owns Trio Club on Calhoun St in Charleston, and being named in March 2010 as the president of the Washington Capitals' AA affiliate.

Played college hockey at Providence (1990–1992) before transferring to Salem State College, named All American in 1995, See Masshole in Full, article in Boston Magazine June 2009.

He had also been a former professional major League roller hockey player with both the New Jersey Rockin' Rollers of the RHI and the South Carolina Fire Ants of the MLRH.[1]

Concannon earned his nickname "Coo Coo" because of his antics both on and of the ice, and his popularity in the Charleston area has remained, resulting in the Stingrays naming him the new team president after Darren Abbott left to take a similar role in the AHL's Manchester Monarchs.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Rob Concannon Statistics". hockeydb.com. 2011-03-08. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=17578. Retrieved 2011-03-08. 
  2. ^ Scott, Jon C. (2006). Hockey Night in Dixie: Minor Pro Hockey in the American South. Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd.. p. 90. ISBN 1894974212. 

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