AHL Morning Skate: Nov. 18

Last night’s results || Today’s scoreboard || Standings || League Leaders @ 6:00 ET, AHL LiveThe top two offenses in the AHL collide at Mile One Centre as Norfolk visits St. John’s in the opener of a two-game set tonight… The Admirals have scored 3.69 goals per game this season, second only to the IceCaps’ […]

AHL Morning Skate: Nov. 17

Last night’s results || Today’s scoreboard || Standings || League Leaders vs. 7:00 ET, AHL LivePeoria opens a two-game set in Cleveland against Lake Erie tonight… The Rivermen, two games into a nine-game road stretch, have won three straight and sit one point out of first place in the Midwest Division… T.J. Hensick (6-15-21) leads […]

32 years later, an AHL rookie again

by Justin Skelnik || AHL On The Beat Archive It was 1979 when Chicago Wolves head coach Craig MacTavish, a 21-year-old center, broke into professional hockey with the American Hockey League’s Binghamton Dusters. Over the next three years, he would shuttle back and forth between the AHL and the National Hockey League’s Boston Bruins. During […]

AHL Morning Skate: Nov. 16

Last night’s results || Today’s scoreboard || Standings || League Leaders vs. 7:00 ET, AHL LiveWith just one win in its last six games (1-4-0-1), Worcester opens its season series against Springfield with a visit to the MassMutual Center tonight… It’s the first road game since Oct. 28 for the Sharks, who are 2-0-0-1 away […]

AHL Weekly Release

AHL Standings || Scores and Schedules || League LeadersSPRINGFIELD, Mass. … News and notes from around the American Hockey League, where home isn’t necessarily where the points are: ROAD WARRIORS … Nearly one-fifth of the way through the 2011-12 season, road teams are providing their hosts will all they can handle, challenging all-time marks along […]

AHL announces suspension

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Binghamton Senators defenseman Tim Conboy has been suspended for two (2) games as a consequence of a match penalty assessed in a game at Rochester on Nov. 11. Conboy, who has already served one game of the suspension, will miss Binghamton’s game tonight (Nov. 15) […]

AHL Morning Skate: Nov. 15

Last night’s results || Today’s scoreboard || Standings || League Leaders vs. 11:30 a.m. ET, AHL LiveSan Antonio hosts Abbotsford in a school-day matinee at the AT&T Center this morning… The Heat have won six in a row on the road, including the first three games of their seven-game road trip to pull into a […]

Owens happy to be back in Hartford

by Bruce Berlet || AHL On The Beat Archive Jordan Owens’ style and demeanor has hardly changed since his first stint in Hartford, but he has seen one major improvement in his second go-around. “I like the new uniforms,” Owens said with a smile. “There’s no specific reason. I like the colors, I guess.” Yes, […]

Ashton has big skates to fill

by Samantha Wood || for NHL.com Carter Ashton has some big skates to fill. The Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2009 first-round draft pick (29th overall) is in the midst of a stellar rookie season with the American Hockey League’s Norfolk Admirals. Though Ashton is proving his mettle as a professional hockey player in his own right, […]

Pens’ Street named Player of the Week

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Ben Street has been named the Reebok/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending Nov. 13, 2011. Street erupted for eight points on two goals and six assists, along with a plus-5 rating, in three games as the Penguins moved into […]