By Jim den Hollander Editor/Publisher Midwesthockey.info The American Hockey League is the top feeder league to the NHL and features several Midenwest connections. There are seven teams including affiliates for all five Midwest-based NHL teams along with the Milwaukee Admirals, the top farm team to the Nashville Predators. The Ads play in the Central
The Muskegon Lumberjacks saw a four-game winning streak snapped the previous weekend but started a new one this past weekend (Oct. 21-22) with a 5-0 shutout win at Bloomington Friday against the Thunder and a 4-3 overtime edge at Waterloo the following night against the Blackhawks. The impressive weekend pushed the Lumberjacks to a 6-3-0-0 record, good enough for a second-place tie in the
The Chicago Steel have not been a team with a lot of playoff experiences in the United States Hockey League — at least not in recent seasons. There are still miles to go, but the Steel team looks solid out of the gate as a pair of wins this past weekend (Oct 14-15) boosted the
Closest game of the night in United States Hockey League play Friday (Oct. 2) was settled by Michael O’Leary, 17, from Nova Scotia who sank his shot in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the host Dubuque Fighting Saints past the Green Bay Gamblers 4-3. Dubuque’s shootout win helped the home teams capture