The Maine Mariners announced on Monday that head coach Ben Guite will leave the team after just one season to become the men’s head hockey coach at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.
Guite became the coach of the Mariners (East Coast Hockey League) last August, after Riley Armstrong left the team to join the staff of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League. Guite was the assistant coach under Red Gendron at the University of Maine starting in June 2013, before being named associate head coach on October 14, 2014. From April 14-May 12, 2021 Guite was the interim head coach following the sudden death of Gendron before the hiring of current Black Bears bench boss Ben Barr. He also was a former player at the University of Maine winning a national championship in 1999, before going to play professionally where he appeared in 175 career NHL games.
Guite led the Maine Mariners to a 33-31-5-3 record this past season, good for a fourth and final playoff spot in the North Division where they would fall in six games in the first round to the top seeded Reading Royals. Assistant coach Terrence Wallin will serve as the interim head coach until a new coach is found. Guite takes over for Jamie Dumont at Bowdoin, who resigned back in late May. Dumont spent six years as head coach in Brunswick, leading the Polar Bears to a record of 8-10-4 this past winter losing in the first round of the NESCAC Tournament to Connecticut College.
