Nate Gurney of Manchester joined us on the Moose Morning Show to talk about the huge fundraiser Saturday, June 16, 'Skate For Dreams with Brian Dumoulin.'
Portland’s new hockey team is coming together. Recently, the team, which will play out of the city’s Cross Insurance Arena opened up their website for name suggestions. Well, it looks like there are five finalists.
Mariners (also the name of Portland’s original pro hockey team)
Watchmen (decent, but semi creepy)
Wild Blueberries (now really, WHO submitted this one?)
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The Waterville Panthers came from behind and won the Class B North Regional boy’s hockey title with a 6-5 victory over Old Town/Orono at the Alfond Arena Tuesday night.
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.
Wes McCauley, a NHL referee that now lives in South Portland, Maine, had some fun with the crowd in San Jose as the Sharks were playing the L.A. Kings. They had to go to official review if a goal was actually a goal.
Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane scored goals and goalie Corey Crawford was flawless in net, as the Blackhawks shut out the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-0, in Game 6 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals in Chicago on Monday night. With the win, Chicago captured their third NHL championship in six seasons.
The Portland Pirates will become the AHL affiliate team for the Florida Panthers beginning next season. The club made the official announcement this morning (March 18) in Portland.
It appeared the UMaine hockey team would pull out a win over Notre Dame in the first Alfond visit for the Irish as a Hockey East School. But that changed in the final :59 seconds.