7 days' notice appreciated
EIHA Involvement
EIH Gameday match scoring training (09/24)
EIHA Spordle Scorekeeper Training (01/23)
EIHA Registered Assistant Manager (2022-2024)
EIHA Registered Manager (2020-2022)
NSPCC Child Protection In Sport And Physical Activity (11/22)
UK GDPR Modules 1&2 (10/22)
UK Anti
Doping 2021 Code Module (01/21)
EIHA
Manager's Course (08/20)
EIHA
Re-Activate Covid-19 Awareness Course (08/20)
EIHA
GDPR Course (08/20)
UK Anti
Doping Clean Sport Advisor Course (09/20)
UK Anti
Doping Coach Clean Course (09/20)
Media
Panel Member for NIHL North Player of the Month Award - seasons 2017/18 and
2019/20
Former
member of British Ice Hockey Writers Association (BIHWA) and Ice Hockey
Journalists UK (IHJUK)
Contributed articles and features for various various NIHL play off tournament programmes.
International
November
1999: Media facilities adviser to
tournament director Frank Dempster for the Team GB Pool A IIHF Qualifying
tournament at Sheffield Arena.
March 1998: Covered IIHF European Junior
Championships Pool D, Luxembourg, for local Luxembourg radio and written press.
NIHL Play Offs
2019:
Match announcer for NIHL Laidler Division Play Off Weekend
2019:
Presentations photographer for Play Off weekend
2018: Match
announcer for NIHL Laidler Division Play Off Weekend
Since June 2024: media news and reports for local press and other news outlets. Social media contributor, Off Ice Game Official.
June 2024 - September 2024 (Don't ask...) Match Night volunteer co-ordinator.
since 2016: weekly Widnes news digest and match reports for press circulation. Regular full page coverage in the Widnes Weekly News.
2016–2023: Match reports and news items for Widnes Wild NIHL team for official Wild website and local press.
2017-2020: Match announcer for Wild NIHL games at Widnes
Occasional
music and photos to cover as required
October
2017: Post - match interviews for BASN's "Drop The Puck" TV
programme, broadcast on "Made In Liverpool" TV channel and elsewhere
Widnes Wild Women's Team
2021 - date:
Official scorer for Wild women's team home games
2017 - date:
match announcer
2018 - date:
official MVP trophy sponsor
2017 - date:
post match presentation photos (as required)
2015 - date: Match reports and news items for Widnes Wild
women’s team for websites and local
press.
Widnes Wild Junior Academy
2018-2024:
Match reports and news items for U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 teams for websites and local press.
Stand-in announcer and timekeeper for Wild Academy junior matches (2023/24)
2024: unofficial (and unappreciated...) statistician for BPIHL 2024 league and play off competitions.
2017 - date: Match announcer and scorer for Mayhem sledge hockey games at Widnes (timekeeper as well since 2023...)
2017 - date: match and news for Mayhem team, British Para Ice Hockey League and Team GB for press and websites.
September
2018: Match announcer and statistician
for British Para Ice Hockey League play off weekend at Widnes
Recreational Ice Hockey
Since 2015: Website and press reports for Riverside Raiders, Widnes Wildcats and Halton Huskies rec matches
2017-20 Match announcer & music for Riverside Raiders rec games at Widnes
2017/18: Match announcer & music for Halton Huskies rec games
July
2019: Match announcer for Wyre Seagulls v Flintshire Phantoms Summer Classic
match at Widnes
June
2019: Scorer for Blackburn Buccaneers v Riverside Raiders Summer Classic match
at Deeside
July
2018: Match Announcer & music,
timekeeper and scorer for Planet Ice Rec Tournament weekend
January
(8th) 2017: Announcer for Antony Morris
Memorial Cup charity game at Widnes
June
(26th) 2016: Announcer for Bob Kenyon
Memorial Shield charity game at Deeside. Also produced souvenir match programme.
Summer
2013: Produced souvenir match programme for the Deeside Dragons v Liverpool Leopards
Legends game at Deeside.
2014/15:
Match announcer for Blackpool Seagulls EIHA 16 North 2 matches at Fylde Coast
Ice Arena in Blackpool
2012/13:
Match announcer and MC for Blackpool Seagulls home games at SubZero ice arena
in Cleveleys during 2012/13 - also produced match programmes and musical
accompaniment.
2011-13:
Match reports and news items for Fylde Flyers ENL team
Early Days
1998/99: Stand in goal judge and occasional timekeeper
at Altrincham Aces ENL matches
August
1998: Volunteer at Trafford Tournament,
Altrincham
Summer
1992: A few training sessions with Eric
Cregan and the Blackpool junior team at
Blackpool Ice Drome
1988 -
1990: Rather unnoticeable 3rd line stint
as a rec player at Peterborough - (Total career stat: 1 assist...).
January
1983: Saw first ice hockey match in
Peterborough - became hooked!
Radio CV
Radio
presenter on 103.2 Preston FM from April 2009 to November 2014
also
appeared on – or produced content for - Wireless Radio.biz, Fylde FM, East
Lancs Radio and NIHL Radio internet broadcasting stations.
Radio
presenter on 106FM Resort Radio, Blackpool, during October 1998
Radio
presenter on 107FM Radio Waky/ Programme Europe 2, Luxembourg, 1997 to 1998
Radio
presenter on Blackpool's Kit Kat Radio 1996-1999
Other sports media involvement:
2009-2014: Covered numerous sports for 103.2 Preston FM, including:
- Ricoh Women’s Open golf (Lytham 2009, Birkdale 2010 & Hoylake 2012),
- Beach Volleyball World Championships, Blackpool (2009)
- British Kite Surfing Championship, Blackpool (2009)
- Blackpool Panthers Rugby League team (2009/2010)
- Snooker Shoot Out, Blackpool (2011)
1999: Media Centre Volunteer at Cricket World Cup, Headingley & Old Trafford
1997: Media Centre Volunteer at World Table Tennis Championships, Gmex Centre, Manchester
1996: Euro 96 European Football Championships - Media centre volunteer at Old Trafford
1997: Telephone Hotline Manager for British Baseball Federation
1993 to 1995: Preston Bobcats baseball match reports for Preston Citizen newspaper
Ice Hockey Publications by Paul Breeze:
Ice Hockey (1936) by Major BM Patton - Annotated & Illustrated 2020: A facsimile reprint of the original 1936 edition with new introduction, author biography and appendices. ISBN: 978-1909643390
ED2n 11/12: A Review of the 2011/12 Ice Hockey Season In English Division 2 North ISBN: 978-0953978298
Ice Hockey Review 12/13 North: A Review of the 2012/13 Ice Hockey Season in NIHL North Divisions 1 & 2 ISBN: 978-1909643048
Ice Hockey Review NIHL Yearbook 2014: The 2013/14 Season in NIHL N&S Divisions 1 & 2 ISBN: 978-1909643109
Ice Hockey Review NIHL Yearbook 2015: The 2014/15 Season In NIHL North & South ISBN: 978-1909643123
Ice Hockey Review NIHL Yearbook 2016 ISBN: 978-1909643253
Ice Hockey Review UK Hockey Yearbook 2017 ISBN: 978-1909643208
Ice Hockey Review UK Hockey Yearbook 2018 ISBN: 978-1909643284
Fylde Flyers - A Complete Record: Seasons 2011/12 & 2012/13 ISBN: 978-1909643130
The Seagull Has Landed: A Light-Hearted Review Of the First 12 Months Back Together Of the Blackpool Seagulls Ice Hockey Team ISBN: 978-1909643017
A Year In The Wild: The 2016/17 season following Widnes Wild ISBN-13: 978-1909643192
Widnes Wild – Lockdown Lookback ISBN: 978-1909643406
North / South Divide: Random Ramblings About British Ice Hockey During the 2013/14 Season ISBN: 979-8563183759
North / South Divide Volume 2: Ice Hockey & Me.
Wild Review - Season 2021/22
Wild Women - Champions 2020
I have also made contributions to:
The History Of Ice Hockey In Peterborough by Stuart Latham ISBN: 978-0953060863
60 Years Of The Altrincham Aces by Stuart Latham ISBN: 978-1838116507
The Deeside Dragons by Stuart Latham ISBN: 978-18838116538
Simply The Best – Wightlink Raiders by Chris Randall
UK Ice Hockey - Its History & Competition Winners by Michael Chambers
From Vikings to Devils – Ice Hockey On The Solent by Stuart Latham
The NHL In The UK by Stuart Latham
Nottingham Panthers - The Works by Michael Chambers
MATCH PROGRAMMES
Contributed regular league "round up" articles for the Blackburn Hawks match programme during the 2014/15, 15/16 and 16/17 seasons and a series of “Rewind” nostalgia articles during 2016/17
Blackpool Seagulls v UK Firefighters Charity Game (February 2012)
Blackpool Seagulls - Bruce Sims Visit (April 2013)
Deeside Dragons v Liverpool Leopards Legends Match (July 2013)
Bob Kenyon Memorial Shield
Game (June 2016)
