Presque Isle’s junior hockey team prepares for home opener just 3 weeks after forming

Presque Isle’s junior hockey team prepares for home opener just 3 weeks after forming

Five minutes into a conversation with a reporter last week, Northern Maine Pioneers owner Brandon Johnson’s phone rang. “You’ll have to excuse me for a second,” he said, swinging open the door to a room attached to the lobby of The Forum in Presque Isle. A minute later, in walked Jack Lowry, the head coach of the Pioneers, a junior hockey team in the Tier II National Collegiate Development Conference. He’d just arrived in Presque Isle for the fi…