American Hockey League

📝 by Patrick Williams Ryan Bach’s life resume looks something like this: pro goaltender, goaltending assistant coach, interim head coach, broadcaster, real estate executive, goaltending coach again, and now team president. While Bach’s roles have changed, the Colorado Eagles have been a constant in his life since the team’s 2003 founding. The organization started in

📝 by Mark Newman | AHL On The Beat Under normal circumstances, Grand Rapids Griffins defenseman Donovan Sebrango likely would be playing his final season in the Ontario Hockey League right now, using his last teenage year to fine-tune his play in preparation for the pros. Obviously, these are not “normal” times. Turn back the

Feb 25, 2022 By AJ Manderichio/SanDiegoGulls.com In early August, as he trained for the upcoming season, Hunter Drew found himself at the crossroads of his young career. The Kingston, Ontario native entered professional hockey as a defenseman, but spent part of the 2020-21 season with the San Diego Gulls as a forward. What started as

As long as I live, I’ll never forget this story my dad has about one specific hockey tournament I played in when I was little. It was 2005, and the event was at the Ice Palace in West Edmonton Mall. My mom, dad, little brother and I had all made the trip up from my

📝 by Patrick Williams Jesse Ylönen received some fatherly advice on what to expect from the American Hockey League. Ylönen’s father, Juha, had a 61-point season with the Springfield Falcons back in 1996-97. That year, as a Phoenix Coyotes prospect, the elder Ylönen went to the conference finals with the Falcons before going on to

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Howson announced today that the Laval Rocket will host the 2023 AHL All-Star Classic presented by Bell. Bell will serve as the presenting sponsor of the All-Star Classic, in collaboration with Manulife Bank. The Rocket were initially chosen to host the All-Star Classic

A special night for a special player. Brett Sutter reached 1,000 professional games late last month in San Jose, but due to a road-heavy schedule for the Reign, the team wasn’t able to honor the milestone until just this past weekend, as Ontario hosted the San Diego Gulls. “In San Jose, I had the chance,

📝 by Patrick Williams Scoring is a thrill for any American Hockey League prospect. But consistent and strong two-way play across all three zones is by far the most direct path to the National Hockey League, and Henderson Silver Knights forward Paul Cotter grasps that lesson. Thirty-four games into Cotter’s third AHL season, he is

📝 by Bradley Cole | AHL On The Beat Joey Daccord has made the most of his opportunities throughout the years. Whether it was with Arizona State where he won 32 games in three years, or with the Ottawa Senators where he experienced plenty of ups and downs, the 25-year-old finds a winning role wherever

📝 by Patrick Williams Three things are clear about Ontario Reign rookie defenseman Jordan Spence. One, Spence handles change well. Really well. The Australian-born Spence moved from Japan to Prince Edward Island at age 14. Alone. Then, in his final season of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in 2020-21, he moved in a major

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Chicago Wolves forward Stefan Noesen has been selected as the AHL Player of the Week for the period ending February 20, 2022. Noesen scored six goals in three games last week, beginning on Tuesday with a power-play tally in the Wolves’ 4-3 loss to Milwaukee.

The Philadelphia Flyers are having one of their worst seasons in franchise history, so it’s difficult finding many positives. Unless, that is, you look at the little guy who has a funny-looking patch of skin around his left eye, which is healing and turning different colors after an ugly collision with the boards Saturday in

📝 by Patrick Williams Someone once summed up what it means to secure an American Hockey League head-coaching job ― you now have one of the top 63 coaching jobs in the entire hockey world. Colin Chaulk is now a member of that coaching club. Right alongside him is John Anderson, who earned a home in the

📝 by Ryan Holt | AHL On The Beat The Bakersfield Condors’ Alex Stalock is a goaltender. Protector of the nets. A hockey player. A husband and a father of three. And much like the rest of the world, the past two years have been difficult on the 34-year-old. It was November 2020 when the then-Minnesota

The American Hockey League is mourning the passing Saturday of Hockey Hall of Famer Emile Francis. He was 95. Francis spent six seasons in the AHL during his 14-year professional playing career, tending goal for the New Haven Ramblers, Cincinnati Mohawks and Cleveland Barons. He was a Second Team AHL All-Star in 1953-54, when he

SPRINGFIELD — In the fall of 2008, long before he piled up his 296 goals in 869 National Hockey League games, and years before his back-to-back runs to the Stanley Cup Final with Nashville and Vegas, James Neal was a 21-year-old rookie with a Dallas Stars club highlighted by some of the franchise’s biggest legends:

📝 by Patrick Williams Utica Comets defenseman Kevin Bahl is well aware that the Rochester Americans have been a major headache for his club this season. Utica will take a .726 points percentage, second-best in the league, into tonight’s AHLTV Free Game of the Week (7 ET/4 PT) against the Amerks. Rochester is the lone

📝 by Irie Harris | AHL On The Beat On February 1st, Daniel Walcott told his team he was changing his skate laces from white to black, to celebrate Black History Month. He assumed it would just be him, but eventually the whole team followed. The Syracuse Crunch wore black laces together in their game