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Salem’s O’Neill has found a home on blue line at Maine

Will O’Neill once felt Orono, Maine was a long way from home. Until he arrived in Omaha, Nebraska for junior hockey. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound defenseman from Salem has settled in quite nicely on the blue line for the Black Bears the last four years, serving as a senior captain this season in Maine’s march to the NCAA Division 1 tournament.

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