A successful regular season turned into a nice, but shorter than hoped for East Coast Hockey League playoff run for the Toledo Walleye. For a second straight year, the ECHL Kelly Cup Championship series had not Midwest-based teams as the Walleye advanced furthest, but ultimately made its exit in the Western Conference finals against the
The last Midwest-based team was eliminated from the East Coast Hockey League post season when the Toledo Walleye surrendered a 6-3 defeat against the Colorado Eagles at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland CO on Friday (May 19, 2017). The trip to Colorado was devastating for the Walleye who split the first two games on
Jeff Lerg provided shutout goaltending, stopping all 24 of the Fort Wayne Komets shots he faced as the Toledo Walleye picked up an emphatic 5-0 win to clinch the East Coast Hockey League’s Central Division final with a 5-0 win at the Huntington Center in Toledo Saturday (May 6, 2017). Simon Denis opened the scoring
Dane Walters’ second of the night, fired exactly one minute into overtime, lifted the Toledo Walleye to a 4-3 edge against the visiting Fort Wayne Komets and a 2-0 lead in their East Coast Hockey League Central Division Final series at the Huntington Center in Toledo Saturday (April 29, 2017). Toledo never trailed in the
x The Kalamazoo Wings grabbed a 4-3 win on home ice and sent the Best-of-Seven East Coast Hockey League Central Division Semi Final to the limit at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo on Sunday (April 23). The Wings scored three unanswered middle period goals to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 cushion with
The Quad City Mallards fought off elimination in its East Coast Hockey League Central Division semi-final match against the Fort Wayne Komets on Friday with a win on home ice while the Toledo kept alive the trend of home ice teams taking the win to pull ahead of the visiting Kalamazoo Wings and move to
