New England Wolfpack is located in Boston, Massachusetts. Only natural that the affiliate team is somewhere close, so my pick for the team is: Portland Pirates! Couple hour drive between the two cities is not as bad, so could see a lot more movement between the two teams when players could be sent down to play game or two to get some much-needed game time if Wolfpack has a break between games and Pirates are playing.

The story behind Portland Pirates is a fun one, a crazy man built a massive pirate-themed amusement park to the middle of Portland, it was a big hit and many loved the place, but after 20 years it closed in 2014. Couple years later Portland Pirates was born, Pirates name is to show respect and love towards the crazy man and the popular amusement park. Portland Pirates is not just a hockey team where players can start to feel the professional hockey vibe, but it´s an organization that has multiple youth teams in various age groups, a real hockey program behind the whole team, which also makes it an ideal team for New England to have a connection with, younger players from Wolfpack get to practice in top facilities and Wolfpack gets to watch talented younger players who could be available to be drafted in the future.