October 1, 2024
Black Bears Will Look to Build Off Last Year’s Success in Year 4 of Barr Era
by Jashvina Shah/Staff Writer (@icehockeystick)
When the snow sweeps across the streets of northern Maine, there’s one place where you can find people.
That’s at Alfond Arena, where fans are packed to the rafters, a piece of warmth in the otherwise frigid reaches of upstate Maine.
It wasn’t always like this, though. Or it was, but then it stopped being like this. Because there was a decade where the Black Bears stopped being the Black Bears, when they nestled into hibernation.
In the 1990s, Maine was a perennial championship contender. It won its first championship under Shawn Walsh in 1993, when they went 42-1-2 and a freshman named Paul Kariya posted 100 points. From 1987-88 to 2006-07…
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