The Kalamazoo Wings fought back to tie the score twice at the Wings Events Center Friday night, but ultimately surrendered a 3-2 decision in shootout against the visiting Wheeling Nailers in one of seven East Coast Hockey League games involving Midwest based teams. All seven saw Midwest teams playing games against teams from outside of
The Missouri Mavericks enjoyed a dream season in 2016-17, but saw it all go up in flames against the Allen Americans Tuesday night (May 10) on home ice. After splitting the first pair in Missouri, the Americans took a stranglehold on the series winning the first two on home ice. The Mavericks avoided a quick exit with a Game 5 win,
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info It doesn’t take much imagination to ratchet up some excitement into the East Coast Hockey League Conference semi-final between the Missouri Mavericks and Allen Americans. First, they have a rivalry dating back at least through the past regular season and this is a match of the league’s top team and regular season champions
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
