By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info The American Hockey League’s Central Division standings sees sometimes drastic changes on a week-to-week basis. That’s what makes it so great. This season the Lake Erie Monsters had a hot and cold season. At different times, the squad found itself among the top four positions or out of the post
The American Hockey League Division final playoff series will get underway Wednesday night and that is not a moment too soon for both clubs. While the grind of travel and the tough schedule is spoken about often in hockey, in this case both the Lake Erie Monsters and Grand Rapids Griffins likely wouldn’t have minded getting started a little bit
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info The Grand Rapids Griffins advanced to the American Hockey League’s Central Division championship with a 4-1 win over the visiting Milwaukee Admirals in one of the strangest games seen at Van Andel Arena Tuesday (April 26) night. The Griffins, hosting it’s first game in a Best-of-Five series after back-to-back wins
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info You’ve heard the joke about if you don’t like the weather in (pick your place), just wait 10 minutes. The American Hockey League Central Division has been like that for several years. Just wait a week and the standings will all be different. This season the division did more or
There is still plenty of time for things to change and that would not even be that unusual in the American Hockey League’s Central Division which includes all six of the Midwest-based AHL teams. But, as of right now, it seems four of the six — Rockford Ice Hogs, Milwaukee Admirals, Grand Rapids Griffins and
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
