American Hockey League

The Vancouver Canucks have hired Manny Malhotra as head coach of their American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks. Malhotra, 44, has spent the past seven seasons as an assistant coach in the National Hockey League, with Vancouver from 2017 to 2020 and with Toronto from 2020 to 2024. He also served as a development

The Hershey Bears are returning to the Eastern Conference Finals after a 4-1 win over the Hartford Wolf Pack on Wednesday night, completing a three-game sweep of the teams’ Atlantic Division Finals series. Garrett Roe recorded two goals and an assist for the Bears, who completed their sixth consecutive series triumph to reach the AHL’s

Luca Del Bel Belluz scored the go-ahead goal with 2:18 to go in regulation and the Cleveland Monsters used a four-goal third period to earn a 6-4 win over the Syracuse Crunch on Wednesday night, completing a three-game series sweep. The Monsters advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, their first conference final appearance since 2016.

Egor Afanasyev scored his third goal of the night with 4:40 gone in overtime on Wednesday night, giving the Milwaukee Admirals a 3-2 victory and a 2-1 series lead over the Grand Rapids Griffins. The Griffins host Game 4 of the best-of-five series on Friday night. Afanasyev’s wrister from the right circle deflected past Sebastian

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Syracuse Crunch goaltender Brandon Halverson has stared down pressure – real pressure, the kind where you wonder whether anything is going to go right again. You don’t know exactly where your career and your life is heading, but it certainly does not seem to be on an encouraging trajectory. Halverson

The St. Louis Blues have named Steve Konowalchuk head coach of their American Hockey League affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds. Konowalchuk, 51, spent this season as an associate coach with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles, where he helped lead the team to a 40-25-5-2 regular-season record and a fourth-place finish in the Pacific Division. Konowalchuk’s previous head

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer It was May 29, 2022. Tampere, Finland. The IIHF World Championship’s gold-medal game featuring two hockey heavyweights, Canada and Finland, before a roaring crowd at Nokia Arena. TSN and the NHL Network beamed the game back to viewers in North America. “The Finnish fans, they came to play,” said Chris

Yaroslav Askarov returned to the Milwaukee crease and stopped 27 shots, leading the Admirals to a 5-2 win over Grand Rapids in Game 2 of the teams’ Central Division Finals on Monday night. The best-of-five series is squared at one game apiece as the Griffins prepare to host Games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer It’s been a long journey just to get this far for Cleveland Monsters goaltender Jet Greaves. It usually is for an undrafted player. First, the Cambridge, Ont., native played two seasons with Barrie of the Ontario Hockey League before his third year was canceled because of the pandemic. He got

The Coachella Valley Firebirds completed a three-game sweep of the Ontario Reign with a 3-2 victory at Toyota Arena on Sunday evening. With the win, the Firebirds advance to the Western Conference Finals for the second year in a row, to face the winner of the Central Division Finals between Milwaukee and Grand Rapids. Kole

Hunter McKown tallied a goal and an assist, Jet Greaves made 17 saves, and Cleveland grabbed a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five North Division Finals with a 4-1 win over Syracuse on Saturday afternoon. The Crunch return home facing elimination in Game 3 on Wednesday. Devante Stephens scored on a power play 8:07 into the

Ivan Miroshnichenko scored two more goals and Hunter Shepard stopped 22 shots as the Hershey Bears followed up their Game 1 romp with a 4-2 win over Hartford in Game 2 of the Atlantic Division Finals at Giant Center on Saturday night. Down two games to none in the best-of-five series, Hartford returns home to

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer The Hartford Wolf Pack will openly admit it. Things got very dicey. It was unpleasant. It forced some difficult conversations. One win in 14 games, including four shutout losses. A 1-10-1-2 slide from Mar. 9 to Apr. 7 threatened to derail what had been a promising season, one which had

Coachella Valley posted its second straight win over Ontario on Friday night, taking a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five Pacific Division Finals with a 5-3 victory at Acrisure Arena. Game 3 is Sunday evening in Ontario. Shane Wright led the way with a goal and two assists and Cale Fleury scored twice in Game 2

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Brandt Clarke has never been one to be afraid to take chances, to push the pace. The test of any full-time NHL defenseman, of course, is to know when to push and when to pull back. Every young blueliner – particularly a top-tier prospect like Clarke – must go through

Justin Pearson scored a shorthanded goal 4:46 into the third period and Jet Greaves made 28 saves for his first playoff shutout as Cleveland edged Syracuse, 1-0, in the opener of the North Division Finals on Thursday night. The best-of-five series resumes Saturday afternoon in Cleveland. Game 1 was scoreless until Pearson, forechecking on a

He was quick to credit a number of individuals in his life, beginning with Vickie Woosley, the team psychologist for the Nashville Predators. Ingram also said the love and support from his parents, fiancée Sarah Mitchell, current goaltending coach Corey Schwab, and former goaltending coach Ben Vanderklok have been instrumental in his journey. He and

Coachella Valley opened the Pacific Division finals by handing Ontario its first loss of the postseason, a 3-2 decision at Acrisure Arena on Wednesday evening. The Firebirds host Game 2 of the best-of-five series on Friday. Max McCormick and Devin Shore, Coachella Valley’s leading scorers with four points each in their division semifinal series win