Six Midwest-based teams started the East Coast Hockey League post season but one round in only two remain. The Missouri Mavericks and Fort Wayne Komets are the top two seeds heading into the Western Conference semi-finals meaning both have home ice advantage against the Allen Americans and Utah Grizzlies respectively. But they definitely took different paths through the first round. The Mavs have
The Midwest was well represented among the eight ECHL West Conference Quarterfinal qualifiers this season with four teams reaching the playoff stage. However, they wound up facing each other in first round battles — the most exciting one still to be settled between the second seeded Fort Wayne Komets and number seven Cincinnati Cyclones. Meanwhile,
A couple of five goal nights helped the Kalamazoo Wings improve its playoff perspective this past weekend. The Wings used back-to-back wins at the Wings Event Center against the North Division leading Toledo Walleye to get within seven points of the eighth and final playoff position. That seven point spread doesn’t sound nearly as rough
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 —
As usual, the ECHL teams were all busy on the weekend (March 13-15, 2015) with key battles in both the East and West Conference involving teams from the Midwest. Among the most successful was the Rapid City Rush who used home ice to full advantage and collected a two-game sweep of the Allen Americans to
Here is a quick look at which Midwest pro teams were in action on Wednesday night (March 10). AHL Utica Comets 1 Chicago Wolves 2 – Coming off of back to back to back defeats in Cleveland, the Wolves got things back on track against the visiting Utica Comets with a 2-1 overtime win at the Allstate
