Glenn Stanford has seen plenty of hockey teams come and go from St. John’s. The Newfoundland Regiment, he believes, are built to last.

From the Maple Leafs to the IceCaps to the Growlers, Stanford has worked for nearly every major club to call Canada’s easternmost province home — and eventually pack up shop — since the 1990s.

But the momentum behind the Regiment, a new team with more than 2,400 season tickets sold in its first Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League season, reminds the longtime executive of Newfoundland’s best hockey days.

“This one has a special feel to it,” said Stanford, the Regiment’s president. “The only thing I can compare it to is the St. John’s IceCaps. We were sold out for three-and-a-half years, and we’re not there with the Regiment, but the support the communit

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