Big third period leads Bears to win in 5,000th game

Quintin Laing recorded a hat trick while Tomas Fleischmann had two goals as Hershey played its 5,000th game in franchise history and defeated the River Rats by a score of 7-4 on Wednesday. The Bears broke a 3-3 tie heading into the third period by scoring four goals in the final frame. Netminder Maxime Daigneault […]

Weekly Notebook: Western Conference

Schedule/Scores Player Stats Goalie Stats Cory Larose scored an AHL career-high five points in back-to-back games, marking the first time in Wolves history a player has posted consecutive five-point games…Darren Haydar has scored in every game this season, registering points in 29-straight games, and is two games shy of matching the AHL record for most […]

Weekly Notebook: Eastern Conference

Schedule/Scores Player Stats Goalie Stats Rats are on a season high four-game winning streak in which they have outscored their opponents 15-6… Center Ben Guite has a six-game scoring streak, registering seven points (3g, 4a) and a plus-5 rating for Albany… Netminder Justin Peters is 4-1-0 in his last five starts, posting a 1.78 GAA […]

Keane, Miller named All-Star playing captains

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews announced today that Mike Keane of the Manitoba Moose and Kip Miller of the Grand Rapids Griffins will serve as playing captains for the 2007 Rbk Hockey AHL All-Star Classic in Toronto next month. Captains for the American Hockey League All-Star teams are selected […]

Sharks practice from a fan’s perspective

by Marc Lachance || AHL On The Beat ArchiveThe Worcester Sharks got back to practice today [Tuesday] at the DCU Center after having a day off Monday. Today’s objectives were to take different angles on shots for the forwards and for the defensemen to take away the center of the ice from opponents. Practice began […]

AHL Weekly Release: No bones about it

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … In their first three seasons under head coach Claude Noel, the Milwaukee Admirals were a mainstay among the league’s elite teams, winning two division titles, two conference championships and one Calder Cup, averaging 47 wins and 104 points a year and actually improving their regular-season record each successive season. In 2006-07, after […]

Old college friends back together with Wolves

by Scott J. Powers, Daily Herald || AHL On The Beat Archive Being the newcomer isn’t easy. You don’t know anyone. You don’t understand how things are done. You have a lot of questions, but don’t always have the courage to ask them. Being a Chicago Wolves rookie is no different. The coaches and teammates […]

Larose latest Wolves player to claim award

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Chicago Wolves center Cory Larose has been named the CCM Vector/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending December 17, 2006. In three games last week, Larose tallied five goals and six assists for 11 points to go with a plus-6 rating. Larose began […]

Milwaukee defeats Griffins in offensive duel

Jason Guerriero had two goals and an assist while teammates Cal O’Reilly and Sheldon Brookbank each had three assists in the Admirals’ 8-5 win at home against the Griffins on Sunday night. Ramzi Abid and defenseman Kevin Klein each had a goal and an assist for the Admirals, who are unbeaten in regulation in the […]

Avalanche to affiliate with Cleveland in 2007-08

The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club of the National Hockey League announced on Sunday that it has signed a long-term affiliation agreement with the new American Hockey League franchise in Cleveland, which will begin play in the 2007-08 season. "It has always been this organization’s goal to have our own independent farm team where we could […]