LEWISTON — A last-minute goal helped the Portland Pirates take command of Friday’s game against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Another led to shootout disappointment — again — at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Alan Quine scored in the shootout with similar backhand deke moves after forcing overtime with 17 seconds to play in […]
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AHL: Lessio is more for Pirates
In the span of a calendar year, Lucas Lessio went from the depths of emotion — an injury erased a chance to play for Team Canada at the World Junior Championships — to the heights — the 20-year-old skater played in his first National Hockey League game. In between, and since, the 6-foot, 1-inch, 200-pound […]
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AHL: Bridgeport up next for Pirates in Lewiston
After a lackluster effort in their most recent home game, the Portland Pirates are hoping they can get back on track — and back into the win column — on Friday. “It would certainly be nice to get a win Friday, that’s for sure,” Pirates coach Ray Edwards said. The Pirates didn’t lose a game […]
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AHL: Sharks bite Pirates
LEWISTON — If Dan DaSilva and Travis Oleklsuk of the Worcester Sharks had to face the Portland Pirates every time they played a game, you likely wouldn’t hear much complaining. Oleksuk had a goal and four assists and DaSilva added three goals and an assist to help lift the visiting Sharks to a 6-3 win […]
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Boys’ hockey: Devils fight off Red Storm
In the final 3:23 of the teams’ Class A showdown, the Blue Devils and Red Storm combined for two power plays, three goals and a handful of blocks. When the ice chips settled, East No. 1 Lewiston held off West No. 1 Scarborough, 4-3, for a pivotal victory. “Basically, it was a good game,” Lewiston […]
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Girls’ Hockey: Scarborough shuts out Lewiston, stays undefeated
LEWISTON — Two. Twenty-three. Four. Lewiston’s shots-on-goal totals by period Monday night were almost symmetrical, but hardly balanced. They told much of the tale in a girls’ hockey showdown at Androscoggin Bank Colisee. If the Blue Devils were to have any chance to spring the upset of the undefeated Scarborough Red Storm, they had to […]
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AHL: Penguins ice Pirates
LEWISTON — The Portland Pirates’ streak of points at home is over after another “discouraging” result, this time without the safety net of a shootout. Simon Despres led the way with two goals, Philip Samuuelsson added a goal and three assists and Eric Hartzell made 27 saves to help lift the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a […]
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Girls’ Hockey: Leavitt/Little brushes off Lewiston for 10th straight win
Complicating matters for the Leavitt-Edward Little girls’ hockey team in the third period Saturday night, the minors against Taylor Landry and Danica Nadeau — overlapping by one second — took away two of the Red Hornets’ premier players. Leavitt-Little still had selfless assistant captains Amanda Grenier and Emma Martineau on the ice, however, blocking Lewiston […]
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AHL: Falcons top Pirates in shootout
LEWISTON — For the seventh time this season, the Portland Pirates took a home game to a shootout, and for the seventh home game in a row, they earned at least a point. What they needed — and didn’t get — was a win. Cody Goloubef sniped the top corner of the cage over the […]
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Winter games roll through Friday
LEWISTON — It’s for charity, sure. But it’s still hockey. The Colisee was host to all-day hockey Friday and there was no shortage of the ugliness hockey fans have come to love. The late checks, the high sticks, the elbows placed just so. These were cops playing against other cops, after all, and soldiers battling […]