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
Technically, the Grand Rapids Griffins already started the three-game winning streak it is currently riding earlier in the week, but the weekend return of Andreas Athanasiou from the Detroit Red Wings certainly didn’t hurt. The 21-year-old native of London, ON returned from a half-dozen games with the parent team and his first NHL goal. If he
After five straight on the road, the Chicago Wolves, American Hockey League affiliate of the St. Louis Blues split a pair of home games this past weekend (Nov. 20-22), dropping a 2-1 decision to Grand Rapids Griffins on Saturday but rebounding with a 2-1 win on Sunday. Griffins 2 at Wolves 1 Saturday’s 2-1 loss
The Iowa Wild trimmed eight players from its American Hockey League roster Sunday (Oct. 4) and got to its required 24 players to open the AHL season next weekend. The team sent three players: forwards Raphael Bussieres and Olivier Archambault along with defenseman Alex Gudbranson to the Quad City Mallards, ECHL affiliate of both the
