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Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Fortunes can change quickly in the AHL. For better and for worse. Just ask the Utica Comets. After missing the Calder Cup Playoffs last season, the Comets came into 2024-25 looking for – and needing – a bounce-back effort. They got anything but that over the season’s first six weeks.

The Edmonton Oilers have acquired forward Jacob Perreault from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for defenseman Noel Hoefenmayer. Perreault, 22, was scoreless in six games with the AHL’s Laval Rocket this season. He also had one goal and four assists in five contests with Trois-Rivieres (ECHL). In 180 career AHL contests with Laval and San

Hershey Bears head coach Todd Nelson does not hold back. Back-to-back Calder Cup championships will not spare his players an honest, frank assessment. Nor will being atop the AHL standings once again. Mind you, this is a 15-5-3-0 club that holds a franchise-record 11-game road point streak (9-0-2-0). However, a sloppy, undisciplined 5-4 home loss

The Chicago Blackhawks relieved Luke Richardson of his duties and have named Rockford IceHogs head coach Anders Sorensen the NHL club’s interim head coach. Mark Eaton, the Blackhawks’ assistant general manager overseeing player development, will assume interim head coaching responsibilities in Rockford. Sorensen was in the midst of his fourth season as head coach of the

Every two weeks throughout the regular season, FloHockey’s AHL expert Patrick Williams will deliver the FloHockey AHL Power Rankings listing all 32 teams.  This week features another new club taking over the league’s number-one spot as the Grand Rapids Griffins continue their climb up the Power Rankings.  See where your favorite team ranks based on

by Jordan Conn | AHL On The Beat It’s not often you find a player who scores points, stacks up penalty minutes, and is an active member of the community. The Boston Bruins organization has found a rare gem in Jeffrey Viel. A seventh-year pro, Viel signed a two-year, two-way contract with Boston during last

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Ontario Reign goaltender Pheonix Copley has been selected as the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending December 1, 2024. Copley stopped 52 of the 53 shots he faced over two starts last week, good for a 0.50 goals-against average and a

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Set a franchise record for longest winning streak. Signed the AHL’s second-leading scorer. Saw one of the NHL’s top prospects moved in a trade that generated headlines across the sport. Added a high-end defenseman in that same trade. The Cleveland Monsters packed plenty into their long holiday weekend. A run

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Ontario Reign forward Glenn Gawdin, Cleveland Monsters defenseman Denton Mateychuk and Cleveland Monsters goaltender Jet Greaves have been selected as the league’s award winners for November. Gawdin, the AHL Player of the Month, recorded nine goals, 12 assists and a plus-13 rating in 12 games

The Carolina Hurricanes have signed goaltender Dustin Tokarski to a one-year, two-way contract for the 2024-25 season. Tokarski joined the Hurricanes’ AHL affiliate, the Chicago Wolves, on a tryout last month and has posted a record of 4-1-0 with a 1.61 goals-against average, a .933 save percentage and two shutouts in five starts for the

The Utica Comets have acquired defenseman Dmitri Osipov from the Hershey Bears in exchange for forward Jace Isley. Osipov has appeared in four games for the Bears this season. He recorded one assist in 17 regular-season games in 2023-24 and was a member of Hershey’s Calder Cup championship team. The Moscow native has skated in

Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Maybe the San Jose Barracuda really are for real. Coming into this season, the Barracuda had reason to have higher hopes following a last-place finish in the Pacific Division in 2023-24. They added two-time Calder Cup champion Andrew Poturalski and defenseman Jimmy Schuldt from Coachella Valley. Another former Calder Cup

The Minnesota Wild have acquired defenseman David Jiricek and a fifth-round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for defenseman Daemon Hunt, a first-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, a third- and a fourth-round pick in 2026, and a second-round pick in 2027. Jiricek has been assigned to the

The Cleveland Monsters have signed forward Rocco Grimaldi to an American Hockey League contract for the remainder of the 2024-25 season. Grimaldi, who signed a tryout with Cleveland prior to the start of the season, ranks second in the AHL with 17 assists and 23 points in 15 games for the Monsters. He currently has

ANAHEIM — It happens to every athlete who ascends to the top level of his sport. That first time on the elite level can be a whirlwind of emotions: Nervousness, hope, as much confidence as you can muster, maybe even a little fear of failure mixed in. (That last, you’d better keep tamped down as

by Katie Hamlin | AHL On The Beat From the Syracuse Stars, to the filming of Slap Shot, and now to the Syracuse Crunch in their 31st season, the city of Syracuse holds a rich hockey history. Professional hockey arrived in Syracuse when the Stars joined the old International Hockey League in 1930 and claimed

Growing his self-confidence has been something that the Abbotsford coaching staff has been engaged in through the first two months of the season. There’s always pressure on young players to perform during the start of their pro careers in North America and Pettersson is being given a lot of tough minutes but has thrived in