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.
