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
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
A lot of hockey players take part in ‘No Shave November’ as a way of raising cancer awareness. The American Hockey League North Division leading Milwaukee Admirals are trying something new called ‘No Loss November.’ The Ads dropped a 3-2 overtime decision at Des Moines on Halloween, dropping its record in the opening month of
Pontus Aberg notched a pair of goals and helped the host Milwaukee Admirals get by the Rockford IceHogs Friday (Oct. 2) 5-2 at the Kern Center Arena, on the campus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The game as the first of two pre-season exhibition matches for the Admirals and second of two games for
Last spring the Milwaukee Admirals, top minor hockey affiliate of the Nashville Predators saw the longest streak of playoff appearances in the league come to a close as it missed the post season party for the first time in more than a decade. Tuesday (Sept. 29), the Admirals began its quest to start a new