Tanner House and Jeff Dimmen will lead the Black Bears next season.

House will be the team's captain, succeeding seniors Jeff Marshall and Simon Danis-Pepin, and Dimmen will be the assistant captain, succeeding seniors Matt Duffy and Chris Hahn.

House is a forward from Cochrane, Alberta and Dimmen is a defenseman from Colorado Springs, Colo. Both will be juniors next season.

House and Dimmen were selected as captains by their teammates and by the Black Bears coaching staff.

"Anytime you have your teammates vote you in as captain, that's an honor," Maine Coach Tim Whitehead said. "Two guys who are sophomores to get that, that's an honor, as well. That shows how much they have accomplished in their first two years, and they've still got two years with us."

House was Maine's third-leading scorer this season with 10 goals and 14 assists in 39 games while Dimmen had six goals and nine assists in 37 games

Three players will not return to the Black Bears next season - sophomore forwards Glenn Belmore, Lem Randall and Keif Orsini. Whitehead said the three players will retain their partial scholarships but did not figure into the team's outlook for next season.

"In the end, it was a decision based on their performance on the ice," Whitehead said. "They had a two-year window to prove that they could help make the team better and none of the three had elevated their play to the point where they could help us get back into national contention."

Belmore had one assist in 10 games, while Randall had four goals and five assists in 32 games and Orsini had three goals and four assists in 27 games.

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