The nice thing about covering the six Midwest-based teams in the American Hockey League is that they are all in the same division. Of course the bad thing about that is only four of the eight teams in the Central Division will qualify for the post season. In recent seasons, this division has seen its
Despite off season speculation and in my case, hopes, it seems most of the five Midwest-based NHL teams are in a similar position to where they stood 365 days ago. If the post season started today, four of the five teams would be invited to the dance while the lone outsider — the Columbus Blue
Clearly Midwesthockey.info has been basically non-existent for most of the past six weeks or so. The plan is for that to change with the arrival of a new calendar year. Health issues and other commitments have unfortunately taken precedence in recent weeks, but the vision of this website becoming a solid voice of hockey in
A lot of hockey players take part in ‘No Shave November’ as a way of raising cancer awareness. The American Hockey League North Division leading Milwaukee Admirals are trying something new called ‘No Loss November.’ The Ads dropped a 3-2 overtime decision at Des Moines on Halloween, dropping its record in the opening month of
A four-point weekend helped the Lake Erie Monsters move a little closer to the front running Milwaukee Admirals, but the Rockford IceHogs denied it a chance at a weekend sweep. The Monsters captured back-to-back 3-2 decisions in Des Moines against the Iowa Wild, boosting its current winning streak to four games, but the three-game road trip wrapped
The Iowa Wild slipped a bit further into the quagmire it appears to be sinking into with three weekend losses — all by a single goal. The Wild fell twice by identical 3-2 scores t home to the Lake Erie Monsters Friday and Saturday and then found itself coming up short again at Chicago Sunday
