American Hockey League

The San Jose Barracuda have signed goaltender Aaron Dell to a one-year American Hockey League contract for the 2024-25 season. It marks Dell’s third stint with the organization. Dell appeared in 12 games last season with the AHL’s Ontario Reign, going 7-4-1 with a 2.57 goals-against average, a .914 save percentage and one shutout. Before

Annual roster turnover is just part of the deal in the American Hockey League, but several of the new guys who are expected to lead the way for the Colorado Eagles have something in common: They’ve played here before. While remaking the organization’s depth, the Colorado Avalanche found a bunch of guys who were happy

Kyle MacLean is at an interesting intersection at New York Islanders Training Camp. He’s a role model to younger players and those in Bridgeport, a tangible example of how hard work and patience can make the jump from the AHL to the NHL. At the same time, he’s still a younger player on a veteran

The Philadelphia Flyers have signed goaltender Eetu Makiniemi to a one-year, two-way contract. Makiniemi had been in training camp on a tryout with the Flyers. He stopped 13 of 14 shots in Monday’s preseason loss at Montreal. Makiniemi appeared in 18 games for the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda last season, going 8-8-0 with a 3.14

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer The San Diego Gulls continue to work to get this right. The parent Anaheim Ducks’ ongoing rebuilding effort has also brought considerable transformation this summer to the Gulls, who will begin their 10th AHL season on Oct. 12 at Toronto. That overhaul started May 13 when the Ducks installed long-time

The Iowa Wild have signed goaltender Dylan Ferguson to a one-year American Hockey League contract. Ferguson returns to the AHL after spending last season in the Kontinental Hockey League. He has appeared in 29 AHL games over parts of four seasons with Chicago, Henderson, Toronto and Belleville, posting a record of 15-7-0 with a 2.56

Drafted in the second round in 2021, the Stars forward became a pro player last season, was in line to win the AHL MVP, and is now one of the favorites to win the NHL Rookie of the Year this season. But as impressive as that is, Stankoven’s journey has had plenty of ups and

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Kevin Maxwell had a chance to try something new. As a player, he played 66 games in the NHL, skated in a Stanley Cup Final, and was Olympian with Canada at the 1980 Games in Lake Placid. He won a pair of Calder Cup championships, with the Maine Mariners and

NHL training camps got underway last week with some roster spots there for the taking. For many prospects, these next few weeks will determine a lot of what the rest of their season looks like. Expectations will be especially high for players that were strong performers during the previous AHL season. Prospects playing in the

SPRINGFIELD, Mass./Charlotte, N.C. … The American Hockey League has partnered with Fastbreak.ai, a leader in AI-driven sports scheduling technology, to assist in managing the league’s complex scheduling needs. Fastbreak.ai’s cutting-edge AI platform will help the AHL optimize its 1,152-game regular-season schedule by providing tools to assist the league in considering logistical and financial factors such

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer The San Jose Sharks open training camp Thursday with plenty to show and even more to prove. That comes with finishing at the bottom of the NHL last season. Change has swept the organization this summer. It starts with a new head coach in Ryan Warsofsky, who won Calder Cups

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today its composite 2024 preseason schedule, leading up to the start of the league’s 89th campaign next month. In operation since 1936, the American Hockey League serves as the top development league for the players, coaches, managers, executives, broadcasters and staff of all 32 National Hockey League

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer This is their shot. Several names familiar to AHL fans will attend NHL training camps on professional tryout deals. No contract, no promises. Just an opportunity. For NHL teams, these veterans are there to bolster competition internally, add roster depth, and perhaps play themselves into the organization’s plans for 2024-25.

No one was expecting Maggio to replicate his final junior season, where he scored 54 goals, notched 111 points and took home the OHL scoring title and MVP, in the AHL, but the Bridgeport coaching staff wants to see him simplify and round out his game. That messaged appeared to take hold in the second

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Logan Morrison keeps proving his detractors wrong and making his supporters look smart. The 22-year-old forward played top-line center and was an alternate captain for the Seattle Kraken in a 5-1 victory against the Colorado Avalanche at the 2024 Rookie Faceoff at Toyota Sports Performance Center on Saturday. Morrison had the

The Springfield Thunderbirds have signed forward Greg Meireles to a one-year American Hockey League contract. Meireles enters his fifth pro season after skating in 47 games for the AHL’s Iowa Wild in 2023-24, collecting four goals and 10 assists. In 161 career AHL games with Iowa, Manitoba and Syracuse, Meireles has totaled 18 goals and

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer The past 10 months have been rather head-spinning for the Hartford Wolf Pack. It started on a Sunday morning last November, with the team in the middle of a three-in-three weekend. Hopes were high for the club, which was sitting at 7-3-1-0. Then came word that head coach Kris Knoblauch

SPRINGFIELD, Mass./AUSTIN, Texas … The American Hockey League and FloSports have announced a multi-year extension of their media partnership, highlighted by an enhanced streaming experience for AHL fans as AHLTV joins the FloSports platform as AHLTV on FloHockey starting in the 2024-25 season. Beginning this fall, the AHL’s streaming service, which has been managed by