The Peoria Rivermen trainers already have the added job of polishing the William B. Coffey Trophy, presented to the SPHL’s Regular Season champion, but the team has also cleared space in its trophy cabinet for the President’s Cup as playoff champions. After a brief bump in its opening game of the post season against the Macon
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info The Grand Rapids Griffins advanced to the American Hockey League’s Central Division championship with a 4-1 win over the visiting Milwaukee Admirals in one of the strangest games seen at Van Andel Arena Tuesday (April 26) night. The Griffins, hosting it’s first game in a Best-of-Five series after back-to-back wins
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
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,
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
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
