SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Hartford Wolf Pack left wing Nigel Dawes has been named the CCM Vector/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending January 15, 2006. In three games last week, Dawes scored six goals and added an assist for seven points. Dawes registered three consecutive two-goal […]
Throughout the past 13 years the Providence Bruins have had some of the best goaltending in the American Hockey League. During the 1998-99 season, when the Bruins won the Calder Cup, John Grahame dominated his opponents, picking up 37 wins and cruising through the post-season. Following in his footsteps was another young goaltender in Andrew […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day features two matinees in the AHL, with Bridgeport hosting Norfolk in a key East Division showdown, and league-leading Wilkes-Barre/Scranton visiting the surging Syracuse Crunch. The Sound Tigers have lost in regulation just once in their last 10 outings (7-1-0-2), and have moved into third place in the East Division, two […]
Milwaukee forward Scottie Upshall was twice the hero on Sunday scoring both the game-tying goal and the game winner in overtime to lead the Admirals to a 4-3 win over the Toronto Marlies. Upshall tied the game at four with 4:07 remaining in the third period, and followed up with the game winner 1:45 into […]
As part of the American Hockey League’s 70th anniversary this season, theahl.com will be taking a look at some of the legendary careers that have been carved in the AHL over the last seven decades. The most prolific AHL scorer of the 1980’s, Bruce Boudreau was an offensive force during his American Hockey League playing […]
Of all the birthday presents a player can give himself, a hat trick is pretty tough to beat. Donald MacLean celebrated his 29th birthday by scoring his third goal of the night 35 seconds into overtime on Saturday, giving the Grand Rapids Griffins a hard-fought 3-2 win over the Milwaukee Admirals at Van Andel Arena. […]
Al Montoya showed on Friday night why he is worthy of his selection to the PlanetUSA team for the 2006 Rbk Hockey AHL All-Star Classic. The Wolf Pack goaltender shut down the Hershey Bears to pick up the 4-0 win at the Hartford Civic Center making 31 saves to earn his first shutout of the […]
Former American Hockey League forward and head coach Marc Potvin has died at the age of 38. Potvin played parts of seven seasons in the AHL with Adirondack, Providence and Portland, and spent the 1997-98 season with the Chicago Wolves, then of the IHL. He captured a Calder Cup championship with the Red Wings in […]
LOOKING BACK: On Wednesday, 2004 AHL MVP Jason LaBarbera returned to the league and made 33 saves in Manchester’s 3-2 shootout loss to Portland… Chris Minard’s first two career AHL goals lifted Albany past Providence, 3-2… Cody Rudkowsky made 13 of his 41 saves in overtime to help Bridgeport run its points streak to nine […]
The names of families that have had a great impact on professional hockey dot the history of the sport. A list of the greatest hockey families would likely include the surnames of Bentley, Esposito, Howe, Hull, Mullen, Patrick, Poile, Richard, Stastny and Sutter, to name a few. Soon, one may be able to add the […]
