Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has assigned defenseman Jonathon Blum to the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League. Blum recently finished his junior career as the Vancouver Giants’ (WHL) all-time leader in defensive scoring, in addition to ranking third overall on the franchise’s scoring list […]

by Lindsay Kramer || NHL.com Lindsay Kramer, the AHL correspondent for NHL.com, profiles an up-and-coming player each Monday during the season, and his AHL notebook appears each Thursday on NHL.com. There was plenty of evidence that right wing Jean-Michel Daoust knew how to help a team win in the playoffs. You just had to know […]

MANITOBA 2, GRAND RAPIDS 1 Held scoreless through the first two periods, Manitoba struck for two goals in the first three minutes of the third frame to erase a 1-0 deficit and claim a 2-1 win over Grand Rapids on Friday at the MTS Centre in Game 1 of the North Division Finals. The regular-season […]

  Every game day from now until the end of the Calder Cup Playoffs, the AHL Morning Skate takes a spin around the AHL ice with recaps and previews, news and notes, facts and figures, and the top headlines from around the American Hockey League.   THURSDAY’S SCORES: Houston 2, MILWAUKEE 1 (HOU leads series, […]

San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan and Boston Bruins coach Claude Julien, who led the NHL’s top two teams this season, and Andy Murray, who lifted the St. Louis Blues to a surprising Stanley Cup Playoff berth, are the three finalists for the 2009 Jack Adams Award in voting by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association. The […]