Among the early week pro hockey transactions among Midwest teams Monday and Tuesday: The Minnesota Wild returned Mike Reilly, a 23-year-old defenseman from Chicago to the Iowa Wild Monday, but recalled him once again to the Twin Cities on Wednesday (Oct. 19). Reilly played one game with the Wild early this season and last year
The Reading Royals showed Toledo Walleye the exit door last night (April 26) wrapping up a strange but thrilling Eastern Conference quarter-final round at the Huntington Center with a 4-1 win in the series finale. The Walleye finished the 72-game regular season atop the Eastern Conference standings with a record of 47-20-2-3 while the Reading
At the end of the regular season, Toledo Walleye, the ECHL affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings, finished on top of the Eastern Conference standings and headed into the post season against the eighth place Reading Royals. Despite a 17-point margin in final points, the Walleye found as teams often do, all teams start the
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