On a busy Sunday afternoon, the American Hockey League saw 8 games played with 1 streak ending and two streaks continuing. The Abbotsford Heat have now matched the Grand Rapids Griffins who did not play yesterday with a streak of 7 games as the two teams are playing better then any other two in the AHL early on this season. Playing in the 2nd of 2 games in as many nights, the Heat once again hosted the Toronto Marlies. After the night before loss of 4-3 to the Heat, the Marlies were hoping to bounce back and it appeared they had when Josh Leivo (1st 8:09) scored first in the game putting the Marlies up 1-0. But with 2:14 to go in the 1st period, … Continue reading →

The American Hockey League saw another 11 games played last night and saw two sets of winning streaks hit 6 games. The Binghamton Senators win streak did not hit 6 games (but did hit 3) however for Stephane Da Costa, a 5 point (2+3) night was in the cards as the B-Sens extended their win streak to 3 games with a 7-3 win over the visiting Rochester Americans on the back end of a home and home series. The 3rd year pro, Da Costa factored in on 5 of the 7 B-Sens goals on the evening including the 1st 3 goals that put the B-Sens atop of the Amerks by the mid way point of the 2nd period. Mike Sdao scored his first of the … Continue reading →

The American Hockey League‘s 11 games on a Friday night featured the start of a home and home series between the Binghamton Senators and the Rochester Americans, plus the final team to record a win last night happened. However the hottest team in the league comes to us from Glens Falls, NY and Terry Murray’s Adirondack Phantoms. The recently 5-0 Phantoms have only given up 4 goals total in those 5 games. The combination of goal-tenders Cal Heeter and Yann Danis have dominated opponents between the pipes allowing the Phantoms to rack up win after win. Winning their 5th game in their last 5 saw Cal Heeter stoning the Springfield Falcons saving all 26 shots the Falcons sent Heeter’s way. The Phantoms scored a goal … Continue reading →

With only 2 games on a Thursday night in the American Hockey League all eyes were on Cleveland, Ohio where the Monsters of Lake Erie hosted the win-less Utica Comets and Charlotte, North Carolina where the Checkers played host to the Chicago Wolves. In a very close game down in Charlotte at the Time Warner Cable Arena, the Checkers and Wolves both scored all three 3 goals combined in the 2nd period. Adam Brace scored his first AHL goal to start the scoring off with the only shot that went past Wolves goal-tender, Jake Allen at the 4:22 mark of the 2nd period. No more then a 1:18 later in the 2nd, David Sheilds scored his 3rd of the season, beating 3rd year pro for … Continue reading →

In Wednesday action in the American Hockey League 4 games were played as early as 11:00 AM in Grand Rapids to 10:00 PM EST in Abbotsford. Two games went to a shootout and two games were just not that close. To start the days action, the Grand Rapids Griffins hosted the Rockford IceHogs in their annual morning matinee for local area schools and may have caught the IceHogs still sleeping with a 6-2 win. Andrej Nestrasil (1st 10:22) started off the scoring for the Griffins just passed the midway mark of the 1st period getting his first of the season passed Antti Raanta who ended up giving up 4 goals on 20 shots he faced. Recently returned from the Detroit Red Wings, Luke Glendening scored … Continue reading →

Last night the American Hockey League saw two games played on a Tuesday night. The Uitca Comets hosted the Toronto Marlies looking for their first win while the West Division’s leader the Abbottsford Heat hosted last place in the West the San Antonio Rampage. The Utica Comets (0-7-1-1) still searching for their first win of the season played host to the Toronto Marlies (6-3-1-0) in the 1st meeting between the North Division rivals. Once again in another game for the Comets, they took the lead first with Alexandre Grenier‘s 2nd goal of the season early in the 1st period 1:10 in. Then as has happened too many times for the Comets early this season, the wheels fell off the bus as the Marlies scored four … Continue reading →

There were 11 games last night in the American Hockey League as most in North America had to change their clocks back to Standard Time. The Texas Stars hopped back onto their winning ways again with a 5-0 rout of the Iowa Wild at the Well Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Texas saw 5 different goal scorers as the Stars were able to score through out the game from the 1st period to the 3rd. Matej Stransky put the Stars on the board first with the 1st of two power play goals for the Stars at the 4:35 which ended up being the game winner. AHL vest Chris Mueller scored his 6th goal of the season to start a 3 goal 2nd period for the … Continue reading →

Last night in the American Hockey League there was 14 games on the 1st day of November and here are a few of the top performers and big games. The Oklahoma City Barons hosted the Chicago Wolves at the Cox Convention Center last night, however the game was all Chicago as the Wolves scored a 6-0 win when it was all said and done. The first period was all quiet for both teams as each just traded a couple minor penalties. But in the 2nd period at the 51 second mark Chicago’s Shane Harper scored the first of the game and second of the season for the 3rd year pro. The Wolves were able to put this game completely way in a span of 1 … Continue reading →