Black Bear Sports Group
“The Phantoms, and the USHL in general, are all about providing young men the opportunity to play junior hockey while fulfilling their dreams of playing college hockey or being drafted by the NHL,” said Andrew Goldman, the new executive. “Events like this help to provide those components to the players.”
Murry Gunty, an investment professional with over 27 years of experience, is the CEO of Blackstreet Capital Holdings.
Blackstreet Capital Holdings focuses on rescuing small to mid-sized distressed companies. Including predecessor companies, Mr. Gunty has led investments in approximately 40 businesses with aggregate of well over $1 billion in revenue.
Murry Gunty has invested in excess of $1.7 billion of equity and subordinated debt capital in over 50 transactions in his career. He was formerly a General Partner of Jacobson Partners, L.P., a middle-market private equity fund focused on control buyouts of business with up to $150 million in revenue. Mr. Gunty is a former partner in the real estate principal investment area of Lazard Freres & Co., LLC, where he co-managed $3 billion of capital in real estate-related private equity funds. He is a former associate of the Blackstone Group.
Mr. Gunty received an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Black Bear Sports Group, Inc. (“BBSG” or the “Company”) has acquired the Revolution Ice Gardens in Warminster, PA (the “Arena”). The Arena houses two NHL-size ice sheets and is home to the Philadelphia Revolution Hockey Club, the Lady Patriots Hockey Club and various local high schools. BBSG was founded by Murry Gunty in 2015.
In the 90-minute round trip between her home outside Baltimore where she was born and raised and Piney Orchard Ice Arena in Odenton, Robyn Remick has time to think.
She weighs the responsibility of turning the Maryland Black Bears hockey team into central Maryland’s “hometown” team.
Black Bear Sports Group said it has taken over the Southwest Ice Arena from the DiCristina family, which has owned the property since 1975. Chevy Chase, Md.-based Black Bear has been investing heavily in hockey rinks here, buying the Seven Bridges Ice Arena in Woodridge in 2016 and last year acquiring American Heartland Ice Arena in Lincolnwood and Center Ice of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.
Black Bear Sports Group, Inc. (“BBSG” or the “Company”) has acquired the Milford Ice Pavilion in Milford, CT (the “Arena”). The Arena houses one NHL-size ice sheet and is home to the Southern Connecticut Stars Youth Hockey Association and various local high schools. BBSG was founded by Murry Gunty in 2015.
The Arena houses one NHL-size ice sheet, one smaller practice rink and the Pal’s Corner Cafe. Black Bear also said the seller, Frank DiCristina, will join its operations team. He has joined the company as vice president of operations and will oversee all four BBSG ice rinks in the Chicago area.
After overseeing the Phantoms for the past four USHL seasons, Troy and Aafke Loney announced on Friday that they have sold their half of the franchise. Running the team day-to-day will be Keith Primeau, who, like Troy Loney, played 15 seasons in the NHL.
March 9, 2018 – Murry Gunty and Printscape Imaging and Graphics are going all out to make sure the renovated Printscape Arena at Southpointe has a revitalized aesthetic for the family-focused facility.
“We’re very excited to be investing in another vibrant New Jersey hockey community,” BBSG CEO Murry Gunty said. Black Bear Sports Group (BBSG), Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of the Jersey Shore Arena in Wall Township, NJ.