Monthly Archives: December 2013
Shore Collects 6 Points in Maine Routing of AIC
Devin Shore headlined Maine’s offensive showcase against American International in a 7-1 5-1 sweep. Coming into Friday night Gendron made a change in the lineup, he sat out Jake Rutt after his costly penalty led to a tying goal on Sunday’s game. In his place was sophomore Kyle Williams, who only played one game previous […]
It’s Yellow Jacket Season
The Black Bears will welcome the American International Yellow Jackets of the Atlantic Hockey conference for a two-game series on Friday and Saturday. As I look at this matchup, I can just see Daffy Duck saying, “Boy, am I a Yellow Jacket!” that’s the feeling I’m getting coming into this matchup. The 3-10 Yellow Jackets […]
Reader’s Guide to the Fans of Maine Hockey, Part V: Screamin’ Black Bears Pep Band
For my concluding part of this Reader’s Guide series, I decided to talk about something that has helped provide the energy for the great fans of Maine Hockey, the pep band. While I wasn’t able to find when the pep band first formed, they’ve been around for quite a long time. I was able to […]
Black Bears Take Care of Business … At Home
The Black Bears racked up their 7th victory in a thriller that came down to the final few minutes against the #6/7 Lowell Riverhawks. The Black Bears got off to a hot start just five minutes in, while on the powerplay freshman Cam Brown fired a shot that went past Lowell goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to […]
Readers’ Guide to the Fans of Maine Hockey, Part IV: Players and Coaches Thoughts
For my first few posts I wrote an article, this time I thought I’d try something a little different. So I made a video for this post of the series, If you like or dislike the way I’m presenting this piece, leave a comment down below
Maine Returns to the Alfond to Host Lowell
Maine will return home to the Alfond as they host the UMass-Lowell Riverhawks on Sunday. The game was originally scheduled for Saturday night, but due to the playoff game for the Maine Black Bears football team that was scheduled for Saturday at 2 pm, Maine found it best to move it to another day. That […]
Readers’ Guide to the Fans of Maine Hockey, Part III: The Alfond
In my first two posts, I talked about the history of the fan base and attendance records. But for my third post in this series I thought I’d talk about the barn that brings all these great fans together, Alfond Arena. Alfond Arena was constructed in in the mid 70’s after Maine was able to […]
Readers’ Guide to the Fans of Maine Hockey, Part II: A Look Back to the Old Days
Maine hockey has been around for 36 years, and this was a program at times that saw early success, then some struggles for a half a decade, followed by its rise to prominence. The Maine Black Bears team formed a Division I team in 1977, to an Alfond Arena that held about 3,800 in capacity. […]