Hockey

Mark down Saturday, October 13 on your calendar. That's the historic day when professional hockey returns to Portland with the first home game evah for the Maine Mariners. They'll take on the Adirondack Thunder that night at the Cross Insurance Arena.

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The Maine Mariners have officially unveiled their new logo that the franchise will use when the new team hits the ice... and let us be the first to say that it looks WICKED cool!

Portland's new ECHL Hockey Team will have the same name as the AHL team that played in Portland back in the '70s through the '90s.

OK, it's down to the Final Five names for the new hockey team coming to Portland next year. The final five finalists are Mariners, Watchmen, Wild Blueberries, Lumberjacks and Puffins.

Cue a ton of inappropriate suggestions...

So this week, we got the exciting news, Portland will once again be home to professional hockey. The City will be the home for an ECHL franchise starting play in the 2018-2019 season. But beyond that great news, the question needs to be asked, what will this new team be called...

NESN's Tom Caron joined us today on the Blimp today and we didn't talk Red Sox!

It's been a long time coming, but YES, pro hockey will return to the Cross Insurance Arena for the 2018-2019 season!

Here's a happy Throwback Thursday memory for you. 23 years ago this week the Portland Pirates won their one and only AHL Calder Cup Championship!

Michael Mantenuto starred in the Disney hockey film "Miracle."

The Bruins are in the playoffs for the first time in several years, and hockey fans all over New England are PUMPED. The Bruins added fuel to our fire this week when they released this amazeballs video. HOCKEY. IS. LIFE.     Here, hockey is #InOurBlood. pic.twit... Read More ...

According to WCSH, hockey will be returning to Portland. They are reporting that a former Portland Pirates player and GM, Brad Church and former owner, Godfrey Wood are planning to bring an ECHL team to Portland.

Brad Church, a former Portland Pirates player and GM, and former owner Godfrey Wood are planning to bring hockey back to Portland for the 2017-18 season. It will be an ECHL team and will keep the Pirates name. ECHL is the East Coast Hockey League and is a tier below the American Hockey Leauge...

The date was February 16, 2014. The Pirates were playing the Adirondack Phantoms at the Lewiston Colisee. In the final seconds of the game, one of the greatest fights in Portland Pirates history broke out.

NESN's Tom Caron was Employee #4 for the Portland Pirates Organization. He was the  "Voice of the Pirates" before he went on to become New England's favorite local sportscaster. His time with the Pirates was certainly special...as the team won the Calder Cup in it's very first year...