The nice thing about covering the six Midwest-based teams in the American Hockey League is that they are all in the same division. Of course the bad thing about that is only four of the eight teams in the Central Division will qualify for the post season. In recent seasons, this division has seen its
A four-point weekend helped the Lake Erie Monsters move a little closer to the front running Milwaukee Admirals, but the Rockford IceHogs denied it a chance at a weekend sweep. The Monsters captured back-to-back 3-2 decisions in Des Moines against the Iowa Wild, boosting its current winning streak to four games, but the three-game road trip wrapped
The Iowa Wild slipped a bit further into the quagmire it appears to be sinking into with three weekend losses — all by a single goal. The Wild fell twice by identical 3-2 scores t home to the Lake Erie Monsters Friday and Saturday and then found itself coming up short again at Chicago Sunday
After dropping its first pre-season game against the Grand Rapids Griffins the previous day at Bowling Green State University, the Lake Erie Monsters, American Hockey League affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets evened the score with a 4-2 win Saturday (Oct. 3) at Windsor Family Credit Union Center in Windsor, ON, directly across the St.
The Lake Erie Monsters officially began a new era Sunday (Sept. 27) as the official top level minor team for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Previously playing out of Springfield, MA; the Jackets moved into Cleveland for the new season with an opening day roster of 24 players including three goaltenders (Anton Forsberg, Joonas Korpisalo and
The Blue Jackets are inching closer to its 2015-16 roster, cutting another four to what should be a competitive Lake Erie Monsters team on Saturday (Sept. 26). Three players: defenseman Oleg Yevenko, and goaltenders Joonas Korpisalo and Anton Forsberg, were assigned to the Monsters while forward Brett Gallant was released with the intention of ultimately
