St. Louis Blues President John Davidson announced today the club has named Jared Bednar as the head coach of the Peoria Rivermen, the Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate (AHL). “The Blues organization is excited to announce Jared as our new head coach in Peoria,” said Davidson. “He brings coaching experience from the AHL and ECHL […]
HERSHEY, Pa. … The Hershey Bears completed the most successful season in American Hockey League by capturing the 2010 Calder Cup championship with a 4-0 win over the Texas Stars at Giant Center in Hershey on Monday night. The Bears, the top development team of the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals, become the first team […]
HERSHEY 2, TEXAS 1 CEDAR PARK, Tex … Alexandre Giroux extended an AHL record with his fifth career playoff overtime goal, scoring at 13:28 of the first extra session to give Hershey a 2-1 road win over Texas on Friday and a 3-2 series lead in the 2010 Calder Cup Finals. Giroux collected a bouncing […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that the remainder of the 2010 Calder Cup Finals series between the Hershey Bears and the Texas Stars will be televised live on NHL Network in the United States and Canada. After a thrilling 2-1 overtime win in Game 5 on Friday in Cedar Park, Tex., […]
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. 2010 CALDER CUP PLAYOFFS: Complete Results || Scoring Leaders || Goaltending […]
The AHL’s Rockford IceHogs and Norfolk Admirals will be extremely well-represented on the Stanley Cup this year after the Chicago Blackhawks ended a 49-year championship drought with a 4-3 overtime win at Philadelphia on Wednesday to close the NHL’s title series. Twenty-one of the 24 Blackhawks players to appear in a playoff contest are graduates […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … Hockey season’s not over yet. While more than two dozen American Hockey League alumni are celebrating their Stanley Cup championship as members of the Chicago Blackhawks, the best-of-seven 2010 Calder Cup Finals between the Hershey Bears and the Texas Stars are knotted up at two games apiece with Game 5 scheduled for […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews announced today that the league’s Board of Governors has approved the relocation of the franchise owned by the New Jersey Devils from Lowell, Mass., to Albany, N.Y., to begin play there this fall. The Albany Devils will mark the return of New Jersey’s affiliate […]
Guy Boucher’s superb rookie season in as an AHL bench boss earned him an NHL job on Thursday when the Tampa Bay Lightning named the 38-year-old as their new coach during a introductory press conference at St. Pete Times Forum. Boucher becomes the youngest coach in the NHL — and the second new coach named […]
HERSHEY 4, TEXAS 2 CEDAR PARK, Tex … Defenseman John Carlson notched a power play goal with just 2:08 to play in regulation, breaking a 2-2 tie and sending Hershey to a 4-2 road win over Texas in Game 4 of the Calder Cup Finals on Wednesday before a season-high crowd of 7,032 fans at […]
