The Thunder score the first four goals of the games and beat Maine.

The Black Bears’ season ends in the semifinals with an 8-1 defeat.

The Mariners score the first two goals but then give up four straight and can’t rally for the win.

Trois-Rivieres scores twice in the final three minutes to break a tie and defeat Maine, 4-2.

The visiting Royals score twice in the third period and head back home with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven first-round series.

Carter Johnson scores three times in the third period and Francois Brassard makes 35 saves to even the first-round series, 2-2.

Maine avoids a 3-0 series deficit when Alex-Olivier Voyer scores 14:52 into overtime.

Maine erases two deficits but can’t overcome a third, and now has an uphill climb as the first-round ECHL series shifts to Portland.