The American Hockey League Division final playoff series will get underway Wednesday night and that is not a moment too soon for both clubs. While the grind of travel and the tough schedule is spoken about often in hockey, in this case both the Lake Erie Monsters and Grand Rapids Griffins likely wouldn’t have minded getting started a little bit
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info You’ve heard the joke about if you don’t like the weather in (pick your place), just wait 10 minutes. The American Hockey League Central Division has been like that for several years. Just wait a week and the standings will all be different. This season the division did more or
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
Compared to the other Midwest-based teams, the Detroit Red Wings left a large number of players in camp for longer, but on Sunday (Oct. 4) the long awaited deep cuts came getting the team close to a final roster. The Wings forwards: Andreas Athanasiou; Louis-Marc Aubry; Tyler Bertuzzi; Colin Campbell; Anthony Mantha; Zach Nastasiuk; Tomas
A pair of young hopefuls still in camp scored the goals to lead the Wings to a 2-1 win at the Air Canada Center in Toronto in its final pre-season contest Saturday (Oct. 3). After a scoreless first period, Andreas Athanasiou and Anthony Mantha both notched goals in the second period and that was enough for
A pair of Red Wings hopefuls helped their cause with four-point efforts Thursday (Sept. 24) as the Wings hosted and defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-1 in 2015-16 pre-season play at the Joe Louis Arena. Selected in the Fourth Round (111th Overall), Teemu Pulkkinen has bided his time at Grand Rapids while inching toward Motown. He
