It’s been a week full of distractions around the Arizona Coyotes organization, but in the here-and-now the Tucson Roadrunners are gearing up for a playoff experience that the organization considers vital toward building an eventual Stanley Cup contender.
The American Hockey League established a new record for attendance in a single regular season as more than 6.8 million fans attended AHL games across North America in 2023-24.
Last night’s setback to Charlotte cost the Hershey Bears a spot in the AHL record books. But it also provided a wake-up call heading into a postseason where head coach Todd Nelson knows anything can happen.
This is where the Detroit Red Wings had hoped Sebastian Cossa would be. Taking on a steady workload with Grand Rapids. Battling for positioning in the standings. And getting ready for what the organization hopes can be a fruitful postseason.
J.D. Forrest is encouraged by where his Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins team stands as the AHL regular season begins its final week.
He missed the first five months of the season following surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon. But Luke Philp is back and ready to lead the Rockford IceHogs into the Calder Cup Playoffs.
Some nights it all looks just right, nights like March 26 when the Providence Bruins visited league-leading Hershey and assembled a 4-1 masterpiece of a win.
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms’ goaltending picture has gotten a late-season makeover, thanks to the work of Philadelphia Flyers general manager Daniel Briere and his front office.
The past six weeks have been a here-one-day, gone-the-next existence for Matthew Phillips. But whether he’s in Washington or Hershey, nothing is diminishing his hunger to succeed.
As challenging as times have been for the Texas Stars, captain Curtis McKenzie knows that even more obstacles await.
