by Brent Marcotte || AHL On The Beat Archive The Portland Pirates are known for their recent player development, grooming prospects such as Tyler Ennis and Nathan Gerbe to elite status in the AHL. With another top prospect basking in the bright lights of Portland in Luke Adam, it is easy to highly laud the […]
by Bob Hersom || AHL On The Beat Archive This isn’t, as the saying goes, Oklahoma City’s first rodeo. While this is the city’s first season in the American Hockey League, it isn’t OKC’s first year with a top-level minor professional hockey club. The Barons are the third such team in Oklahoma City’s pro hockey […]
by Jamie Palatini || AHL On The Beat Archive The American Hockey League is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary season, but there are also teams within the league that are celebrating their own important milestones. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers are currently in the midst of their 10th anniversary season and to many fans and players […]
by Jed Bick, Al Bozzo and Matt Shott || AHL On The Beat Archive The Hamilton Bulldogs are quite familiar with impressive early season starts and so far in 14 games this year, the ‘Dogs have posted an 8-3-1-2 record with 19 points, good enough for second in the North Division even though the club […]
by Nathan Skytta and Keith Phillips || AHL On The Beat Archive Tampa Bay Lightning prospect Johan Harju notched seven goals and 16 points in his first 12 games of North American professional hockey. On Friday, the talented Swedish forward’s career went from Norfolk to the National Hockey League. It’s a journey that 139 different […]
by Josh Fisher || AHL On The Beat Archive The Texas Stars had three players make the inaugural 2009-10 season squad on tryouts. Center Travis Morin and right wing Greg Rallo were among the team leaders in goals and points after showing up for training camp without contracts. The third skater was Scott McCulloch, who […]
by Jeff Hawkins || AHL On The Beat Archive His voice rises with each mention of his former River Rats "teammates." "FITZGERALD … BORER." Pausing, his voice rises higher: "CONBOY … HERAUF." AHL fan Zach Bennett pauses again, only briefly. The 10-year-old Albany, N.Y., resident has a long, influential player/friend list. "PETERS … MURPHY." Laughing […]
by Jason Karnosky || AHL On The Beat Archive If first impressions are indeed lasting ones, then forward Linus Klasen has left exactly that and more on Milwaukee Admirals fans. After scoring a pair of goals in Milwaukee’s home-opening 6-2 win against the Abbotsford Heat, number 86 has been tearing up the AHL, scoring eight […]
by Griffin Spencer || AHL On The Beat Archive It has been a very long off-season for Manchester Monarchs center Marc-Andre Cliche, who has been rehabbing a lower-body injury following surgery. After spending numerous hours a day in physical therapy and in the gym, Cliche is being rewarded for his hard work not only by […]
by Mike Peck || AHL On The Beat Archive Imagine going out to dinner, placing an order and getting your food only to find out that the item you ordered was something completely different than what you thought you were getting. Or traveling halfway across the world thinking you were going to learn English only […]
