Mike O'Hearn
President, Coyotes Ice, L.L.C. (Ice Den)
Phone: (480) 473-5835
E-mail: mohearn@coyotesice.com

Mike O'Hearn enters his seventh year as president of Coyotes Ice, LLC, and the Ice Den. The Ice Den, although built to accommodate the training needs of the National Hockey League’s Phoenix Coyotes, quickly has become a community gathering place for a great majority of the Valley’s families. The Ice Den experiences over 700,000 visits per year through regular programming and special events.

While the Coyotes continue to be a major focus of the Ice Den, the public aspects of the business — youth hockey, adult hockey, figure skating — have in their own right witnessed unprecedented growth under his direction.

The Ice Den currently has an amateur hockey association with more than 600 members ages 5-16, a nationally renowned figure skating association (complete with a learn-to-skate program) with more than 750 skaters ages 3-60 and an amateur adult hockey association with nearly 600 members ages 18-60.

The need to provide the Valley with a center for the country’s fastest-growing participant sport has been addressed. In only four years of operation, the Ice Den quickly has established itself as the benchmark by which all other ice facilities are measured.

O’Hearn long has been involved with professional sports. A 15-year member of NHL management, he was vice president of hockey operations/facilities for the Coyotes before being named to his current post. In 1996, Mike was instrumental in the transition of the franchise from its roots in Winnipeg. He also spent six years with the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League.

Justin Maloof
Executive Director, Coyotes Ice, L.L.C. (Ice Den)
Phone: (480) 473-5804
E-mail: jmaloof@coyotesice.com

As Executive Director for Coyotes Ice, LLC, Justin Maloof oversees the business operations for the Ice Den. Maloof is directly responsible for the Ice Den’s marketing, public relations and advertising initiatives which are all designed to keep the facility and it’s programs the valley’s top choice for family recreation and entertainment.

In addition to these duties, Maloof facilitates the master schedule for the Ice Den. Proper schedule coordination is vital to the facility, which draws over 600,000 customers annually. Countless hours are spent with the various department heads ensuring the various ice slots are balanced and utilized effectively between the Ice Den’s in-house youth hockey, adult hockey and skating programs. Once these programs are scheduled, additional slots are booked for public skating, hockey tournaments, skating competitions, corporate events and other user groups. To round out the schedule, Maloof also coordinates practice times for the Phoenix Coyotes, the Phoenix Roadrunners, ASU Sun Devils and their visiting teams.

Before joining Coyotes Ice, Maloof was an original staff member of the Phoenix Coyotes Hockey Club. As the team’s Coordinator of Fan Development, he worked two years creating and implementing the team’s hockey education programs, community grassroots initiatives and other NHL-sponsored events. Prior to the Coyotes organization, Maloof served two years as Promotions Director for the Tacoma Rockets Hockey Club of the Western Hockey League.

A first-team, all-state high school baseball player, Maloof received a baseball scholarship from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, where he received his bachelor’s degree after three-years as the university’s starting shortstop. Maloof is married with two daughters and the family resides in North Phoenix.