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
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
As teams head back from the Christmas break, the 10 Midwest-based ECHL Hockey teams are split evenly — five in a post season position and five looking at an early trip to the golf course if they can’t turn things around in the next few months. They are also split evenly on each side —
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
