Mass Maple Leafs

The Mass Maple Leafs are a former junior hockey team that was based out of Acushnet, Massachusetts that operated from 1999 to 2012. The team was originally known as the New Bedford Maple Leafs when they were based out of the Hetland Arena in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The team would move operations to Acushnet in 2001 but would play games some 20 miles (32 km) away in Raynham, Massachusetts out of the Raynham IcePlex. The team would play as a member of the Continental Hockey Association and later the Eastern States Hockey League and finally the International Junior Hockey League before folding along with that league prior to the start of the 2012-13 playing season.