American Hockey League

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

Buddy Robinson scored 2:05 into overtime to send the Rockford IceHogs into the division semifinals with a 4-3 win at Iowa on Friday night. After sweeping the best-of-three series from the Wild, Rockford moves on to face Texas in the next round. The IceHogs earned both series wins in overtime. Nine of the 14 meetings

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that goaltender Dustin Wolf of the Calgary Wranglers has been voted the winner of the Les Cunningham Award as the AHL’s most valuable player for the 2022-23 season. The award was voted on by coaches, players and members of the media in each of the league’s

Lucas Carlsson scored with 1:12 remaining in the second overtime period as Charlotte staved off elimination with a 5-4 win over Lehigh Valley on Thursday night. The finale of the teams’ best-of-three Atlantic Division first-round series is set for Friday night in Charlotte. The Checkers got the winner off a scrambly sequence, with John Ludvig

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Coachella Valley Firebirds forward Tye Kartye has been voted the winner of the Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Award as the AHL’s outstanding rookie for the 2022-23 season. The award was voted on by coaches, players and members of the media in each of the league’s 32

Joey Daccord made 45 saves, three skaters notched three points each, and the Coachella Valley Firebirds won the first playoff game in franchise history, a 5-1 victory over Tucson at Acrisure Arena. The Firebirds take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series with Game 2 scheduled for Friday night. Max McCormick notched two goals and

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Dustin Wolf of the Calgary Wranglers is the winner of the Aldege “Baz” Bastien Memorial Award as the AHL’s outstanding goaltender for the 2022-23 season. The award was voted on by coaches, players and members of the media in each of the league’s 32 cities. Wolf becomes the first