Highlights from Saturday night’s thrilling opener of the 2009 Calder Cup Finals from Winnipeg are available now on AHL Live. Don’t miss any of the live game broadcasts, extensive pre- and post-game coverage, interviews, features and more as the Manitoba Moose and Hershey Bears battle for AHL supremacy. Click here for Game 1 highlights
HERSHEY 5, MANITOBA 4 (OT) Alexandre Giroux poked home a loose puck in the crease on the power play at 13:33 of overtime, completing a hat trick and giving Hershey a 5-4 win over Manitoba on Saturday in Game 1 of the Calder Cup Finals at a sold-out MTS Centre. Giroux now has a team-leading […]
A capacity crowd of 15,003 fans packed the MTS Centre in downtown Winnipeg for Saturday’s opening game of the American Hockey League’s 2009 Calder Cup Finals between the Manitoba Moose and the Hershey Bears, the largest crowd for any Game 1 in the 73-year history of the American Hockey League. It was also the seventh-largest […]
The Manitoba Moose have announced that Game 1 of the 2009 Calder Cup Finals between the Moose and Hershey Bears is sold out at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg. With 15,003 tickets sold, it will be the seventh-largest crowd in AHL postseason history and the sixth-largest for a Finals game. The five larger Finals crowds […]
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. MONDAY’S SCORES Hershey 5, PROVIDENCE 2 (HER wins series, 4-1) […]
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. Hershey coach Bob Woods looks past medicine and to a geographical explanation for how forward Quintin Laing was able to return earlier than expected from […]
Download complete Finals series preview (1.4 MB — PDF) SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … For the first time in nearly a decade, the top regular-season team in the Eastern Conference will meet the first-place finisher from the Western Conference in the Calder Cup Finals when the American Hockey League’s 73rd championship series gets underway on Saturday night. […]
Goaltender Cory Schneider of the Western Conference champion Manitoba Moose will enter the AHL Chat Room to answer fans’ questions on Friday, May 29th. Schneider was the AHL’s goaltender of the year after going 28-10-1 (2.04, .928) in 40 regular-season appearances for the Moose. CLICK INSIDE TO SUMBIT YOUR QUESTIONS FOR THE CHAT. A 2008-09 […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The 2009 Stanley Cup Finals are set with the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins preparing to battle for the second consecutive spring, and nearly 75 percent of the players, coaches and managers involved are graduates of the American Hockey League. The Eastern Conference champion Penguins are led by head coach Dan […]
The Keystone State has been a cornerstone state for the American Hockey League since the league was formed in 1936, when two founding members – the Philadelphia Ramblers and the Pittsburgh Hornets – played within Pennsylvania’s borders. Since then, teams from the commonwealth have claimed a total of 14 AHL titles and made 35 Finals […]
