Two more members of the University of Maine hockey team’s pool of fourth-liners have entered the NCAA transfer portal and two forwards are transferring in.
Junior center Cole Hanson and sophomore left winger-center Felix Trudeau are leaving but Taylor Makar from UMass and Charlie Russell from Clarkson will be joining the program, according to social media and various websites.
Makar will be a senior next season and Russell will be a sophomore.
Parker Lindauer and Reid Pabich were the two previous Black Bear fourth-liners who entered the portal. The portal enables student athletes to transfer to other schools without losing eligibility.
Hanson became a fixture as the fourth line center and wound up playing in 34 of UMaine’s 37 games, netting four goals and four assists. The previous year, in his first season at UMaine after transferring from Colgate University, he had six goals and four assists in 36 games.
Trudeau played in 24 games but was a healthy scratch for the last 10 games. He had three goals and two assists. The former 27-goal scorer in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League had three goals and five assists in 28 games a year ago.
Makar is the younger brother of former UMass Hobey Baker Award winner and NHL Calder Trophy (Rookie of the Year) recipient Cale Makar, a Colorado Avalanche defenseman who played for UMaine head coach Ben Barr when Barr was an assistant at UMass.
Like his brother, Taylor Makar was also drafted by the Avalanche.
Taylor Makar was a seventh round selection, the 220th overall pick, while his brother was the fourth overall pick in the first round.
The 6-foot-3, 191-pound Makar will provide the Black Bears with some size up front. Nolan Renwick, who is 6-foot-3, and 6-foot-2 Trudeau are the only forwards taller than 6-1 who saw playing time this season.
Six-foot-five defenseman Liam Lesakowski did play one game at forward.
Calgary, Alberta native Taylor Makar had four goals and five assists in 36 games for the Minutemen this season after notching 10 goals and two assists in 32 games his sophomore year. He had a goal in 17 games his freshman year.
Russell, a 5-foot-10, 174-pound native of Houghton, Michigan, played in seven games at Clarkson before leaving to play for the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League where he had 12 goals and nine assists in 33 games along with 72 penalty minutes.
He had four goals and four assists in his last 10 games…
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