A successful regular season turned into a nice, but shorter than hoped for East Coast Hockey League playoff run for the Toledo Walleye. For a second straight year, the ECHL Kelly Cup Championship series had not Midwest-based teams as the Walleye advanced furthest, but ultimately made its exit in the Western Conference finals against the
The last Midwest-based team was eliminated from the East Coast Hockey League post season when the Toledo Walleye surrendered a 6-3 defeat against the Colorado Eagles at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland CO on Friday (May 19, 2017). The trip to Colorado was devastating for the Walleye who split the first two games on
x The Kalamazoo Wings grabbed a 4-3 win on home ice and sent the Best-of-Seven East Coast Hockey League Central Division Semi Final to the limit at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo on Sunday (April 23). The Wings scored three unanswered middle period goals to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 cushion with
The Quad City Mallards fought off elimination in its East Coast Hockey League Central Division semi-final match against the Fort Wayne Komets on Friday with a win on home ice while the Toledo kept alive the trend of home ice teams taking the win to pull ahead of the visiting Kalamazoo Wings and move to
When the Fort Wayne Komets cruised into Kalamazoo and captured a 2-1 edge on Friday (Oct. 21) night at the Wings Events Center, it seemed it had the upper hand in a home and home weekend set with the Kalamazoo Wings. But the Wings took a turn as road warriors the following evening capturing a
Jake Paterson turned aside all 39 of the shots he faced Tuesday night in leading the visiting Toledo Walleye to a 5-0 shutout win against the Cincinnati Cyclones at US Bank Arena in Cincinnati Tuesday (Oct. 18). Paterson, 22, was a Third Round (80th Overall) selection by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2012 NHL