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!
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.
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...
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...
With the news of the Portland Pirates setting sail for Springfield Mass, let's take a trip back to their inaugural season in 1994 when the Pirates couldn't be stopped. They had a winning record of 43–27–10. One of the best records in the AHL...