Maine Eclipse

The Maine Eclipse were a junior hockey team based out of the Biddeford Arena in Biddeford, Maine. The team was established as an expansion team in the Eastern Hockey League for the 2020-21 season. The organization added a team to each of the EHL's two leagues. The team was originally announced as being the Keene Eclipse and were to be based out of the Keene ICE Arena in Keene, New Hampshire.https://www.easternhockeyleague.org/news_article/show/1087706 The team would relocate to the Biddeford Arena in Biddeford, Maine and be renamed the Maine Eclipse for the start 2020-21 season.
Both teams would quietly be removed from their respective leagues in early November 2020 without explanation and their results were removed from league standings.
The team resumed operations for the start of the 2021-22 season in both leagues. According to a report on the Junior Hockey News website the team was removed from the league again in late September. The report attributed the issues as being a result of lack of experience of the ownership and several other reasons.https://thejuniorhockeynews.com/the-death-pool-ehls-maine-eclipse-dead/ The juniorhockey.com website had published a follow up article and re-republished several articles pertaining to the indirect involvement of a person that had been placed on USA Hockey's and Safesport's permanently banned list as one of the team's coaches being involved in an event run by that person during the summer of 2021.https://www.juniorhockey.com/news/news_detail.php?news_id=94445 The organizations two teams would forfeit games September 24th to September 26 as the organization was being investigated and apparently removed from the league.
==Season-by-season records==
Season 	GP	W	L	OL	GF 	GA	Pts	Regular Season Finish	Playoffs
2020-21 EHL 	13	3	9	1 	37 	55	7 	N/A, North 	Withdrew in early November
2020-21 EHLP	10	3	7	0 	174	45	6 	N/A, North 	Withdrew in early November
2021-22 EHL 	4 	0	4	0 	3 	37	0 	N/A, North 	Removed in late September
2021-22 EHLP	3 	0	3	0 	6 	13	0 	N/A, North 	removed in late September
Note 2021-22 standings do not include one forfeit by the EHL team and three by the EHLP team over the weekend that the team was reported as being removed from the league.
==References==
Category:Established in 2020
Category:Eastern Hockey League teams
Category:Disestablished in 2021