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New England Blazers / Boston Blazers (1989-1997)

June 20, 2018

The New England Blazers were an expansion entry in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League during the winter of 1989. The club played initially in the small central Massachusetts city of Worcester before moving to the Boston Garden 1992. A little over a decade after the original Blazers went out business in 1997, a re-booted version of the Blazers took the floor at Boston’s TD Garden from 2009 to 2011, albeit without the original club’s garish orange, green & white uniforms.

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Goaltender Pelle Lindbergh on the cover of the 1981-82 Maine Mariners Media Guide from the American Hockey League

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.

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