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Cole Maier scored with 52.2 seconds left in regulation to tie the game and Jansen Harkins buried the game-winner 1:32 into overtime, giving Manitoba a crucial 3-2 victory over Milwaukee in Game 2 of their Central Division semifinal in Winnipeg on Sunday. With the final three games of the best-of-five scheduled to be played in

Keaton Middleton scored 1:40 into overtime to give the Colorado Eagles a 1-0 win over Coachella Valley in Game 3 of their Pacific Division semifinal on Sunday evening. The Eagles take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series and will have a chance to close out the Firebirds when the teams meet in Game 4

Riley Barber scored twice to lift the visiting Texas Stars to a 4-1 win over the Rockford IceHogs in Game 2 of the teams’ Central Division semifinal series on Sunday evening. After posting back-to-back road wins to open the best-of-five series, the Stars head home with three chances to close out the IceHogs. Game 3

Hartford continued its impressive play with a 2-1 victory over Providence in Game 2 of the teams’ Atlantic Division semifinal series on Saturday night. After consecutive wins on the road, the Wolf Pack head home with a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series and will have a chance to close out the Bruins in Game

The Hershey Bears scored two quick goals midway through the third period, propelling them to a 5-1 victory over Charlotte on Saturday and a 2-0 lead in the teams’ best-of-five division semifinal series. The series concludes in Hershey, beginning with Game 3 on Wednesday. The Checkers cut the Bears’ lead to 2-1 with 10:45 left

Matthew Phillips scored on a power play 7:49 into overtime to give Calgary a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over Abbotsford and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five Pacific Division semifinal series on Friday night. The series now heads to Abbotsford for the final three games beginning Wednesday evening. The Canucks, who were 28-0-1-1 in the regular

Joseph Blandisi scored 18:35 into overtime, giving Toronto a 6-5 victory over Utica in a back-and-forth Game 1 of the teams’ North Division semifinal at Coca-Cola Coliseum on Thursday night. The best-of-five series continues with Game 2 on Saturday afternoon in Toronto. In action for the first time since closing the regular season on Apr.

Mikhail Maltsev slipped a backhand home with four minutes to play in regulation, lifting Colorado to a 3-2 win over Coachella Valley in Game 2 of their Pacific Division semifinal series on Thursday night. With the best-of-five series even at one win apiece, the teams head to Palm Desert for the final three games beginning

📝 by Patrick Williams Shoot the puck! Visit nearly any building in hockey, and the odds are good that the home fans will deliver that message loudly when they see fit. Especially in Utica, where the Comets play in one of the AHL’s loudest buildings. And especially in the closing seconds of a Calder Cup

Jakob Pelletier scored 11:52 into overtime to give the Calgary Wranglers a 3-2 win over Abbotsford in their first-ever Calder Cup Playoff game on Wednesday night. Game 2 is set for Friday night back at the Saddledome. Pelletier snapped a shot from the right-wing circle that beat Canucks goaltender Spencer Martin, giving the Wranglers a

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League’s Player Safety Committee today announced that Syracuse Crunch forward Gabriel Dumont has been suspended for two (2) games as a consequence of a kneeing incident in a game vs. Rochester on Apr. 22. Syracuse leads the teams’ best-of-five North Division Semifinals, two games to none. Dumont will miss

The Anaheim Ducks announced today that Matt McIlvane has been hired as head coach of the San Diego Gulls, Anaheim’s primary development affiliate in the American Hockey League. McIlvane replaces Roy Sommer, who retired at the end of the 2022-23 season, and becomes the fifth head coach in Gulls AHL history. McIlvane, 37, has won

ELMONT, N.Y. — The Carolina Hurricanes’ forward depth already was stretched thin before Jack Drury sustained an upper-body injury 3:30 into Game 4 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the New York Islanders on Sunday. So when coach Rod Brind’Amour looked down the bench for someone to replace Drury on the Hurricanes’ top line

📝 by Patrick Williams A broad educational journey, followed by plenty of wide-ranging hockey tutelage, has brought Evan Gold to the general manager’s position with the Providence Bruins. Gold was named to the post by the Boston Bruins on Mar. 29, his latest step up the hockey management ladder. Now in his eighth season with

Staring down the possibility of an early end to a terrific inaugural season, Coachella Valley raced out to a 4-0 lead before the game was eight minutes old and shut down Tucson the rest of the way to take the decisive Game 3 of the teams’ Pacific Division first-round series at Acrisure Arena on Sunday

📝 by Patrick Williams Not much left for Christian Wolanin to do this season, other than to go pursue a Calder Cup. After all, the Abbotsford Canucks standout already has won the Eddie Shore Award as the AHL’s top defenseman; revived his National Hockey League chances with the Vancouver Canucks; and scored himself a new

A dominant opening period was enough to lift the Syracuse Crunch to a 3-0 victory over the Rochester Americans on Saturday evening. Syracuse leads the best-of-five series, two games to none. Game 3 is set for Friday evening in Rochester. Ryan Jones and Gage Goncalves scored in the first period, while the Crunch became the

Facing elimination after a 5-1 loss in Game 1, the Tucson Roadrunners bounced back and defeated Coachella Valley, 4-3, in Game 2 at Acrisure Arena on Friday night. The best-of-three series will be decided on Sunday afternoon in Palm Desert (6 ET/3 PT). Michael Carcone, the AHL’s regular-season scoring champion, led the Roadrunners with two