While the Vegas Golden Knights are off to an awesome start in the desert, a pair of nice off-season pick-ups are showing signs of developing into scoring machines with the Chicago Wolves, top minor affiliate of the Knights. Alex Tuch, a 21-year-old forward from New York has been a prospect in the Minnesota Wild system
For a second straight season, the American Hockey League’s Central Division was well represented in the Calder Cup playoffs as the Grand Rapids Griffins pushed everyone aside to hoist the Calder Cup in June. With a playoff run like the Cleveland Monsters (then known as the Lake Erie Monsters) the previous season, The Griffins put
The name may be slightly different, but it sure looks like the same old Monsters after the opening weekend of the American Hockey League. All six Midwest-based teams were in action on the first weekend, including the former Lake Erie Monsters, no known as the Cleveland Monsters. The Cleveland crew opened the regular season Friday
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 scored just two pre-season goals in two games, both off of the stick of Zac Dalpe, but that was enough to secure a split with the Manitoba Moose in its two-game pre-season North Dakota showdown. After dropping the first game 3-0 at Grand Forks, the Wild rallied for a 2-1 win at Fargo