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After tense negotiations apparently fell through with the Cumberland County Civic Center, the manager of the Portland Pirates hockey team announced Thursday that the team will play its full 38-game season at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston.
The Portland Press Herald reported the team’s CEO Brian Petrovek said he was forced to look at other options for the team after butting heads with the civic center’s board of trustees over an agreement outlined by both parties in April. After finding out that the team could not collect a percentage of beverage sales as expected — because the team itself does not hold a liquor license — the civic center and team could not come to terms.
Neal Pratt, chairman of the civic center’s board of trustees, told the paper that the team was asking for a lease that would have cost the publicly funded arena money.
Petrovek said during a press conference Thursday that the team would continue litigation with the civic center board in an effort to return to Portland in the future.
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