For many fans of the Lewiston Maineiacs, the beleaguered junior hockey team that left Lewiston in 2011, the players who called the Androscoggin Bank Colisee home for varying lengths of time became adopted members of the hockey community, and of the community at large. Another one of the former team’s young stars — Michael Chaput […]
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Bernier helps Leafs to win over Wings in Winter Classic
Light snow swirled down in the Big House, making it tough to push the puck through piles of the white stuff on a sheet of ice where football is usually played. Teeth-chattering temperatures and a brisk wind were factors, too, that made the NHL’s Winter Classic much more of an event than a game. Tyler […]
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AHL: Former Maineiac Brisebois forges own path to pros
In 2009, the Lewiston Maineiacs selected undersized, 1992-born forward/defenseman in the seventh round of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League draft, 109th overall. He was a longshot to ever crack the lineup, but he had skill. “It was a struggle from the beginning, because he came to camp with a broken foot,” said Roger Shannon, […]
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In the Crease: This and that from around the world of sports
Ever have so much you want to talk about — or write about — that you can’t decide where to start? Happens to us here at the Sun Journal all the time. Instead of trying to narrow it down, let’s go through a handful of those items in brief: • The Patriots-Jets fiasco, and Thursday […]
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In the Crease: Hockey bonds remain strong through tragedy
Life is fragile. We are sadly reminded of that far too often, though typically that news is packaged in the first couple of sections of the newspaper, on news-based websites or in the A-block of the local television newscasts. Sports, for most people, are an escape; a way to forget the problems of the world […]