Maine Sasquatch

The Maine sasquatch are a now disfunctant team that came in the third wave of AWHL team (2003) and were arguabbly the best team in the northeast region

Debut Season
In Maines first season there was argue were the maine Sasquatch werre goinmg to play there home games but they finnaly made a dessision to play there games at the CCCC (or Cumberland County Civic Center)

In the AWHL draft they picked Martin Vaskinov the goaltender from Russia they ended the season with a great record of 9-1 and were concidered the best team in the AWHL that year they also played a game against the Portland Pirates AHL hockey club. Some concider this a publicity stunt but alot said that it was a great time and have done it from there debut season to 2013 when the Pirates moved to a diffrent arena. In the playoffs they won there division but fell short of a George Memorial cup

Vaskinov era 04-08
At the start of the 04-05 season there was altot of talk of a location change to the greater Boston area but this was shutdown by the owner of the sasquatch. In 04 thay had a record high of sell outs at the CCCC this was because of the succes of the team and also Martin Vaskinov who everyone wanted to see. They ended the 04-05 season with a record of 4-6 which was vey dissipointing to the players and the fans.

At the beginning of the 05-06 season the sasquatch had many doubters but they proved them wrong when they went undiffited with a 10-0 record. They demo,lished every team in there path to reach the George Memorial cup were the would have to face one of the toughest teams the Quad City Generals. They won the game in overtime with a score of 3-2 in overtime. After the win Maine became one of the most inffluentiul teams in AWHL history with there story of being underdogs

In the 06-07 season they were ready to repeat a George Memorial cup win with Vaskinov back Peters back and a new rookie Brad Westbrook. They ended the season with a record of 8-2 and lost in the quaters against the Lowell Hurricane.

The 07-08 season was an end of an era when they traded Vaskinov to the Bruins and Peters was injured with a back problem. There final record was 2-8 which was hurenduss.

The Downfall 08-11
At the beggining of the 2008-09 season the Sasquatch had a possible move to Arizona but the Colorado Avalanche said they didnt want to move them and they had a big enough fan base they ended the season with a record of 2-8 again. They have been through many goalies between 08-11

The begining of the 09-10 they had a new goalie named Brian Mcdonald who was suposed to be the future but ended up being a bust. They ended the season with a record of 4-6 and did not make it to the playoffs.

Folding 11-14
The Maine Sasquatch folded in 2014 from financial troubles. They lost there affiliates the Colorado Avalanche at the end of the 2014 season. They wanted to go on as an independent franchise in the AWHL but could not manage the financial troubles and folded at the end of the summer. The Maine Moose have token the place of the Sasquatch and are playing at the same arena.

The CCCC
The Sasquash plays in The CCCC or Cumberland Ciunty Civic Center.