Days after a serious roster shortage forced Presque Isle’s first junior hockey team to forfeit its inaugural game, its parent league revoked the team from its ownership group and replaced it with a new franchise in the Aroostook County city under a different owner.

The National Collegiate Development Conference — the league the Presque Isle Frontiers briefly played in — went public with that decision Thursday afternoon, announcing that a new team called the Northern Maine Pioneers will join the NCDC this season.

The team is anticipated to arrive in Presque Isle on Sept. 30 and begin practice at The Forum on Oct. 1, a team official said.

Brandon Johnson, a longtime figure in the Northeast hockey landscape, is the owner of the new franchise. He also owns the Connecticut Chiefs North, a

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