AUBURN — The Norway Savings Bank Arena is getting another tenant for the 2016-17 season. On Wednesday afternoon, the Central Maine Community College Mustangs will be fielding a men’s hockey team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, according to a joint announcement with the arena and the City of Auburn. “Well at the community college, […]
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Junior hockey: L/A Fighting Spirit skate past Northeast Generals
After spending most of the first two periods in the penalty box, the L/A Fighting Spirit righted the ship in the third frame and remained unbeaten in 2015 in a 5-0 win over the Northeast Generals in Canton, Mass., on Tuesday. Five different players scored for the Fighting Spirit (7-0), who will play their first […]
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Junior hockey: Fighting Spirit come alive in third, top Generals
LEWISTON — As well as Northeast Generals goalie Steven Murphy was playing Saturday, no straight shot the L/A Fighting Spirit could throw at him was going to find its way by. Ultimately, a spinning slider from the lower left circle was the keeper’s Kryptonite. Simon-Richard Corriveau wheeled and fired the puck at Murphy after it […]
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Hockey: Fighting Spirit top Maine Wild
BIDDEFORD — The Lewiston-Auburn Fighting Spirit spread the scoring responsibilities around as six different players put the puck into the net for a 6-0 victory over the Maine Wild in NA3EHL hockey action at the Biddeford Arena on Saturday evening. Thomas Kuntz got the scoring started with an assist from Mike Heffernan at the 2:01 […]
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St. Dominic Academy hires Bob Parker as boys’ hockey coach
AUBURN — After a tumultuous offseason, St. Dominic Academy has filled one of the higher-profile ice hockey coaching vacancies in Maine. Bob Parker, a local businessman whose two sons played for St. Dom’s and who for the past three seasons was the school’s junior varsity coach, has agreed to step into the varsity position. “I’m […]
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Steve Ouellette quits as St. Dominic Academy hockey coach
AUBURN — Steve Ouellette has stepped away from coaching the Saint Dominic Academy boys’ ice hockey team, leaving one of the highest profile coaching jobs in Maine open for the third time in the past 10 years. “I’ve been at the high school level for 17 years, it’s a long time,” Ouellette said. “It takes […]
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UMO coaches to lead Auburn teen hockey camp
AUBURN — Red Gendron, head coach of the University of Maine’s men’s hockey team, will bring his experience on ice to local youth in a hockey camp this August. Auburn’s Norway Savings Bank Arena will host the camp for boys 13-18 years of age. Gendron will lead a team of coaches at the camp from […]
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NHL: Boston Bruins elevate Sweeney to GM position
BOSTON — The Boston Bruins have elevated Don Sweeney to general manager. Sweeney has spent the past six seasons as the assistant general manager and takes over for his former boss, Peter Chiarelli, who was fired last month after the team missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years and four years after […]
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AHL: Portland Pirates come alive, force Game 5 with Manchester Monarchs
PORTLAND — Francis Wathier had the golden touch, and Louis Domingue the golden pads. Buoyed by Domingue’s 28-save shutout, Wathier’s pair of goals and a lock-down penalty-kill unit, the No. 8 Portland Pirates stayed alive again Thursday, earning a 5-0 win over the top-seeded Manchester Monarchs in Game 4 of the teams’ best-of-5 AHL Eastern […]
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AHL: Portland Pirates’ playoff push begins Thursday
SACO — Mike McKenna has seen a lot from behind his goalie mask in the past 10 years. He’s played for 14 professional hockey teams at three levels following a four-year NCAA career at St. Lawrence University. So when McKenna said Wednesday that what he witnessed from his goal crease last weekend in the Portland […]