BIDDEFORD — While Biddeford continues to savor its newly won Class-A state championship, the final wrap will be put on the high school hockey season with a pair of weekend events.

On Saturday (6:30 p.m.), the state’s top seniors will take to the Family Ice Center in Falmouth for the annual East-West Senior All-Star Game.

A host of local players will skate for the West, including Trevor Fleurent, Matt Roy, Joe White, Craig Anton, Derek Reny, and Nick Fitzgerald, all of Biddeford.

Thornton Academy will be represented by Peter Remmes, Alex Howard, Rick Hebb and Mike Herlihy, while Joe York will carry Kennebunk’s colors.

Then on Sunday, the Class-A Coaches, banquet will be at the Ramada Inn in Lewiston.

Topping the agenda will be the naming of the Travis Roy Award, which is given to the top senior player in the state.

The four finalists are Fleurent, Hebb, Mat Gordon (Edward Little), and Nick George (Bangor).

Hebb is the first Golden Trojan to be named a Roy finalist, and if he wins, would be the second goaltender (after Biddeford’s Tony Dube) to be so honored.

In any event, Hebb said he’s pleased just to be named in the same company as Maine’s other great players.

“It’s an honor just to be mentioned in the hockey community around here,” he said. “The recognition means the world to me.”

Also to be announced are the All-State teams and the Bob Boucher Coach of the Year Award.

List missing Schutz

Clear Day lists were released by the AHL for each of its 29 clubs, Thursday, and the name of Felix Schutz was conspicuously absent from the Portland Pirates’ roster.

Schutz has been the club’s regular third line center for the past two seasons, and was having a solid season (12-12-24, -2).

However, clubs can keep just 22 players (including goalies) on their active rosters for the remainder of the season (including playoffs), with exceptions made for injuries and call ups. Players on amateur tryouts are also exempt.

Schutz will remain in the Pirates line up until winger Mark Mancari returns from his call up with Buffalo.

Meanwhile, Portland will have a rare, three-game home-stand this weekend, with Manchester (without former Maineiacs goalie Jonathan Bernier, who was called up by Los Angeles), Binghamton (with former Pirate defenseman Paul Baier), and Springfield (with ex-Pirate Colton Fretter) all heading into the Civic Center.

Pirates announce Sabres extension

The timing, Thursday, of the announcement that the Pirates have extended their working relationship with the parent Buffalo Sabres, certainly is curious, especially given all the uncertainty surrounding the club’s future in

Portland.

The club’s  current 5-year lease to use the Cumberland County Civic Center expires at the end of April, and efforts between the County and Pirates’ Managing Owner Brian Petrovek to work out a new one have hit

some serious speed bumps.

Then there is concern, locally, that Petrovek will move the Pirates to Albany, N.Y., which is soon to be a vacant AHL market.

Either Petrovek has informed the Sabres of his intentions, or Buffalo isn’t all that concerned about where its minor league affiliate is located.

Observers close to the scene in Albany tell Empty Netters that “the longer the situation drags out, the more likely it is that the Pirates will stay put in Portland.”

Time, and, perhaps not much time at that, will tell.

Hathaway going to Brown

His hockey career at Phillips Andover Academy is at an end, but Garnet Hathaway of Kennebunkport has plenty of hockey ahead of him.

Hathaway, a large-sized (6-foot-2, 190) power forward will take his skill and smarts to Brown University, whose program is on the upswing under second year Bears’ coach, Brendan Whittet.

“I think he has tremendous upside,” said Andover coach Dean Boylan. “And he’ll take that forward to the next level. He’s been a terrific four year player for us. He’s a very bright young man as well. We’re very proud of the entire package that he brings to the table.”

College recruiters weren’t the only ones clued into Hathaway’s great promise.

National Hockey League scouts have also taken notice.

The league’s Central Scouting Bureau rated Hathaway at  No. 174 among domestic skaters eligible for the 2010 Entry Draft, to be in Los Angeles in June.

Hathaway also excelled at soccer, having broken Andover’s school scoring records.

— Contact Staff Writer Dan Hickling at dhickling@journaltribune.com.