A.J. Jenks fired a pair, including the game winner with just under four minutes to go as the Toledo Walleye picked up a 3-2 win at the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne and grabbed a commanding 3-0 lead in its Best of Seven Central Division Final series with the host Komets on Wednesday (May 3,
The Kalamazoo Wings fought back to tie the score twice at the Wings Events Center Friday night, but ultimately surrendered a 3-2 decision in shootout against the visiting Wheeling Nailers in one of seven East Coast Hockey League games involving Midwest based teams. All seven saw Midwest teams playing games against teams from outside of
Last year the Missouri Mavericks won 52 times in 72 games, finishing as the league’s top regular season team with a 10-point edge on second place. However, the dream season turned into a nightmare when it ran into the defending champion Allen Americans in the post season. The first hurdle thrown in front of the
After a rough run through the opening round against a pesky Cincinnati Cyclones squad, the Fort Wayne Komets brushed aside the Utah Grizzlies in the East Coast Hockey League Western Conference semi-finals, finishing off a second round sweep in Utah. After capturing wins in the first two games at Fort Wayne, the Komets grabbled a commanding lead with a 3-1 win
Jamie Schaafsma, a veteran center from Ontario stepped up as the series hero, scoring a pair of first period tallies which was all the Fort Wayne Komets to finally dispatch the Cincinnati Cyclones in the seventh and final game of a thrilling East Coast Hockey League Western Conference Quarter-Final series. When the final buzzer sounded,
The Midwest was well represented among the eight ECHL West Conference Quarterfinal qualifiers this season with four teams reaching the playoff stage. However, they wound up facing each other in first round battles — the most exciting one still to be settled between the second seeded Fort Wayne Komets and number seven Cincinnati Cyclones. Meanwhile,
