American Hockey League

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

Few analysts know the minor league hockey landscape better than Chris Peters, and the FloHockey senior content creator and analyst didn’t mince words when talking about the new era the American Hockey League is about to enter in 2024-2025.  The AHL is streaming live on FloHockey and the FloSports network this season, and hockey fans

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Bret Hedican can relate to the struggle of today’s players in establishing a pro career. He has been there. A 10th-round pick in the 1988 NHL Draft, Hedican went on to become a trusted defenseman who built a 1,039-games NHL career that included a Stanley Cup championship and two Olympics

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Steve Konowalchuk learned the pro hockey business early. As a 19-year-old in April of 1992, Konowalchuk made his professional debut with the AHL’s Baltimore Skipjacks, playing three games for head coach Barry Trotz. The former third-round draft pick would split his first full season between Baltimore and the Washington Capitals.

The Syracuse Crunch have signed forwards Jujhar Khaira and Ara Nazarian to one-year American Hockey League contracts, and forward Joel Teasdale to a professional tryout contract. Khaira played 22 games with the AHL’s Iowa Wild last season, posting five goals and 13 assists for 18 points. He also skated in one NHL game with Minnesota.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Manitoba Moose manager of hockey communications and broadcaster Daniel Fink has been selected as the recipient of the James H. Ellery Memorial Award for the 2023-24 season. The James H. Ellery Memorial Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding media coverage of the American

The Anaheim Ducks have signed goaltender Oscar Dansk to a one-year, two-way contract for the 2024-25 NHL season. Dansk was 11-12-3 with a 3.22 goals-against average and an .897 save percentage in 27 appearances with the AHL’s Calgary Wranglers last season. In 171 AHL games over parts of seven seasons in the league, Dansk has

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Howson announced today the following changes to the league’s hockey operations department: Hayley Moore has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Hockey Operations. Alison Izzi has been promoted to Vice President, Hockey Operations/Governance succeeding Melissa Caruso, who has left the AHL to assume

The Coachella Valley Firebirds have signed defenseman Turner Ottenbreit to an American Hockey League contract for the 2024-25 season. Ottenbreit, who spent last season with Kunlun Red Star in the Kontinental Hockey League, has played 179 AHL games with San Antonio and Iowa, recording 10 goals and 29 assists. His last appearance in the AHL