Last year the Missouri Mavericks won 52 times in 72 games, finishing as the league’s top regular season team with a 10-point edge on second place. However, the dream season turned into a nightmare when it ran into the defending champion Allen Americans in the post season. The first hurdle thrown in front of the
As teams head back from the Christmas break, the 10 Midwest-based ECHL Hockey teams are split evenly — five in a post season position and five looking at an early trip to the golf course if they can’t turn things around in the next few months. They are also split evenly on each side —
The Iowa Wild trimmed eight players from its American Hockey League roster Sunday (Oct. 4) and got to its required 24 players to open the AHL season next weekend. The team sent three players: forwards Raphael Bussieres and Olivier Archambault along with defenseman Alex Gudbranson to the Quad City Mallards, ECHL affiliate of both the
The Iowa Wild, top minor league affiliate of the Minnesota Wild began final preparations for the 2015-16 American Hockey League season at Des Moines Tuesday (Sept. 29)with 33 players in attendance. Preparations will be quick with a Green-White scrimmage game tomorrow evening and a pair of exhibition contests against the Manitoba Moose to prepare for
The Quad City Mallards’ management stayed busy throughout the heat of the summer and highlighted a busy month of July by renewing its affiliation agreement with the parent Minnesota Wild. A team issued press release confirmed the Minnesota Wild-Iowa Wild-Quad City Mallards troika would be working together once again, marking the third consecutive season of affiliation
