Portland Pirates
June 24, 2020
American Hockey League (1993-2016) Born: March 26, 1993 – The Baltimore Skipjacks announce they will move to Portland, ME Moved: May 23, 2016 (Springfield Thunderbirds) First
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Maine Mammoths
April 25, 2019
This short-lived indoor football team played a single season at Cross Insurance Arena in downtown Portland during the summer of 2018. The Mammoths leading receiver was the delightfully-named Edgar Allan Poe, Jr.
Maine Mariners (1977-1992)
April 19, 2017
The Maine Mariners were a popular minor league hockey club that played for 15 seasons at Portland’s Cumberland County Civic Center. The Mariners’ glory years came in the late 1970’s and early 80’s as the top farm club of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. Maine won the American Hockey Leagues’ Calder Cup in each of their first two seasons. After the Flyers moved the original franchise to Utica in April 1987, the Boston Bruins swooped in and created a new black-and-gold clad version of the Mariners that skated five more seasons from 1987 through 1992. The Bruins-era Mariners came to an end with the club’s move to Providence, Rhode Island in May 1992.
New England Gulls
August 9, 2013
The New England Gulls were a train wreck of a women’s basketball franchise that operated for two months in December 1980 and January 1981. It was no fault of the players, of course. And the Gulls had a couple of pretty good ones, including 6′ 3″ center Althea Gwynn and Canadian National Teamer Chris Critelli. Former Boston Celtics star “Jungle” Jim Loscutoff was the Head Coach (briefly).
Maine Lumberjacks
January 16, 2013
The Maine Lumberjacks were a minor league basketball club based out of Bangor from 1978 to 1983. The club originated as an expansion franchise in the Continental Basketball Association in the fall of 1978. The CBA grew out of the old Eastern Basketball Association (1946-1978), which had been a Pennsylvania-based bus league for decades. The Lumberjacks joined the league as part of a nationwide expansion and re-branding. During their 5-year run in the CBA the Lumberjacks roamed from coast to coast, traveling as far as Montana, Hawaii, Alaska and Alberta, Canada for games.