Chicago Wolves and Grand Rapids Griffins both punched their respective tickets to advance to the American Hockey League Central Division final on Wednesday (April 26). The Griffins, top minor affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings finished off a three-game sweep of the Milwaukee Admirals with a 3-2 overtime win at Milwaukee’s UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. Meanwhile
The suddenly surging Chicago Wolves grabbed a weekend split with the Rockford Ice Hogs by taking the return match at Allstate Arena by a whopping 7-3 count in American Hockey League play Saturday night. The IceHogs won in Rockford the previous evening 3-2, but the Wolves responded in a big way and after dropping its
The Iowa Wild got a 36-save performance from goaltender Steve Michalek and two goals each from Tyler Graovac and Jordan Schroeder to wrap up a seven-game season-opening homestand with a 6-1 thrashing of the visiting Milwaukee Admirals at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on Friday (Oct. 28) night. In other Friday night action
The opening weekend of the American Hockey League was not friendly to the Chicago Wolves or Rockford Ice Hogs. But both teams turned things around this past weekend. The 0-2 Ice Hogs started a three-game weekend Friday (Oct. 21) at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, breaking into the win column and also handing the
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
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
