Every morning 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. FRIDAY’S SCORES: BRIDGEPORT 4, Springfield 3 Hamilton 3, GRAND RAPIDS 2 LOWELL […]
by Greg Glynn || AHL On The Beat Archive He wore #50, but he wasn’t a player. He shared the wins and losses, but he wasn’t a coach. He was a great owner, but he was also a fan. The late Tom Ebright was the owner of the Baltimore Skipjacks and brought hockey back to […]
Friday’s Boxscores PHILADELPHIA 5, HERSHEY 2 Philadelphia scripted a fitting regular-season farewell to the Wachovia Spectrum on Friday, clinching a playoff spot with a 5-2 win over arch-rival Hershey before a sellout crowd of 17,380 fans, an AHL season high.
Chicago Blackhawks General Manager of Minor League Affiliations Mark Bernard announced on Friday that the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League have signed winger Kyle Beach to an ATO. Beach was the Blackhawks’ first-round draft pick (#11 overall) in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. The 19-year-old winger split his third full season in the […]
St. Louis Blues President John Davidson announced today the club has assigned defenseman Alex Pietrangelo from his junior team, the Niagara Ice Dogs of the Ontario Hockey League, to the Blues’ American Hockey Affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. Pietrangelo was the Blues’ first-round pick, fourth overall, in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. Pietrangelo, 19, a native […]
The Albany River Rats announced today that center Zach Boychuk has joined the team from the Lethbridge Hurricanes, his WHL junior club. Boychuk, 19, joins Albany after completing his fourth season of junior hockey with the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the WHL. The Airdrie, Alta., native was drafted by Carolina in the first round (14th overall) […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that left wing Alexandre Giroux of the Hershey Bears has been named the winner of the Les Cunningham Award as the AHL’s most valuable player for the 2008-09 season, as voted by coaches, players and members of the media in each of the league’s 29 cities. […]
Every morning 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. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES: ALBANY 4, Philadelphia 3 (SO) Providence 5, LOWELL 2 Hartford […]
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. Peoria Rivermen defenseman Justin Fletcher‘s strength shines through in a transition game. In order to play that way on the ice, he’s had to live […]
The Philadelphia Flyers today reassigned defenseman Luca Sbisa to the Philadelphia Phantoms from the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League, according to club general manager Paul Holmgren. Sbisa will wear uniform #47 and will be available for the Phantoms’ final two regular season games this weekend against the Hershey Bears. Sbisa, 19, was the […]
