Several new faces have been added to the Grand Rapids Griffins’ lineup in the waning weeks of the regular season, one of which is 19-year NHL veteran Brad May, who was assigned to Grand Rapids by the Detroit Red Wings prior to the NHL’s Olympic break. Having played 1,129 regular-season and playoff contests during his NHL career without a single game in the AHL, May could have easily chosen a different path or attitude about his situation.

Lowell Devils forward Tim Sestito wonders whether he’s in for a brotherly beatdown a decade in the stirring Friday. That’s when his team will visit Syracuse for a contest against the Crunch. As an undercard for the get-together, it will also mark the first time that Tim has ever played against younger brother, Tom, a forward for Syracuse. It seems that Tim wasn’t always very nice to Tom when they were playing pickup hockey growing up in Rome, N.Y.

In this week's AHL Conference Notebooks, find out what franchise record Hamilton defenseman P.K. Subban recently broke, which team leads the AHL in shootout wins, which goaltender has won 13 straight decisions, which player has reached the 20-goal plateau for his eighth straight AHL season, which team recently scored its most goals in a game since Nov. 2008, which team has earned all of its shootout wins this year at home and much more. Click for notes from all 29 teams.