Tomas Nosek’s second goal of the night and ninth of the post season came just under 14 seconds away from the end of the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup championship opening game and lifted his Grand Rapids Griffins to a 3-2 win against the visiting Syracuse Crunch at the Van Andel Arena Friday (June 2,
The Grand Rapids Griffins got a chance to play on home ice for the first time since May 8 (Game Four of the Central Division final against Chicago) and celebrated with a 4-2 win against the visiting San Jose Barracuda at the Van Andel Arena on Wednesday (May 24, 2017). The Griffins used three unanswered
Martin Frk scored just 40 seconds in and sent the Grand Rapids Griffins on its way to a 4-1 win at Allstate Arena against the host Chicago Wolves in the opening game of their Best of Seven American Hockey League Central Division Final series Wednesday (May 3, 2017). The win is the fourth straight for
The Chicago Wolves fought back to even its American Hockey League Best of Five Central Division Semi-Final with the host Charlotte Checkers on Friday (April 21) while the Grand Rapids Griffins the other division semi with a win against the visiting Milwaukee Admirals. After being shutout the previous night the Wolves struck back with a
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
Technically, the Grand Rapids Griffins already started the three-game winning streak it is currently riding earlier in the week, but the weekend return of Andreas Athanasiou from the Detroit Red Wings certainly didn’t hurt. The 21-year-old native of London, ON returned from a half-dozen games with the parent team and his first NHL goal. If he
