American Hockey League

Danick Martel scored a franchise-record four goals to lead the Laval Rocket past Rochester, 6-1, in the opener of the North Division Finals at a sold-out Place Bell on Sunday evening. With a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series, Laval hosts Game 2 on Monday. The Rocket spotted the Amerks a 1-0 lead before Martel

📝 by Patrick Williams Tous les billets sont vendus. Sold out. Be it French or English, those words mean another packed Place Bell tonight as the Laval Rocket welcome the visiting Rochester Americans for Game 1 of the North Division Finals (7 ET, AHLTV, RDS2). The sellout will be Laval’s third in as many games

The Chicago Wolves struck first in the Central Division Finals on Saturday night, posting a 6-2 win over the Milwaukee Admirals in the opener of their best-of-five series. Game 2 is Sunday afternoon in Rosemont. The Wolves started the scoring just 32 seconds into Game 1, with Jack Drury snapping home a shot on a

📝 by Patrick Williams Change is in the water for the San Jose Barracuda. The 2022-23 season will feature Tech CU Arena, a new home for the American Hockey League affiliate of the San Jose Sharks. A fixture behind the Barracuda bench will be missing as well with long-time head coach Roy Sommer transitioning to

Three third-period goals lifted the Rochester Americans to a 4-2 victory over the Utica Comets in the winner-take-all Game 5 of their division semifinal series in Utica on Thursday night. After eliminating the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, Rochester, which needed outside help on the last day of the regular season just to qualify

A.J. Greer scored twice, Fabian Zetterlund notched three assists and the Utica Comets stayed alive with a 4-2 win in Rochester on Tuesday night. With their North Division semifinal series square at two games apiece, the Comets will host a winner-take-all Game 5 on Thursday evening. Leading 1-0 after 20 minutes on a Nolan Foote

The San Jose Sharks have named John McCarthy the new head coach of their AHL affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda, while Roy Sommer has been named a senior advisor for the Barracuda. “John McCarthy is a natural fit as the next head coach of the San Jose Barracuda,” said Joe Will, interim general manager of

Gabriel Bourque scored 10:13 into overtime to send the Laval Rocket into the North Division Finals with a 3-2 victory over the Syracuse Crunch on Tuesday night. Laval advances to face the winner of Thursday’s Utica-Rochester game in the next round. Danick Martel collected the puck off a Crunch turnover behind the net and sent

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Utica Comets defenseman Robbie Russo has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a playoff game at Rochester on May 15. Russo will miss Utica’s playoff game tonight (May 17) at Rochester.

Joey Daccord made 23 saves and Max McCormick scored his first three career postseason goals, sending the Charlotte Checkers into the next round with a 4-0 win over Bridgeport on Monday night. The Checkers won the best-of-five Atlantic Division semifinal series, three games to one, and will now take on Springfield beginning Sunday afternoon. Daccord

📝 by Patrick Williams Now, the Milwaukee Admirals rest, and they do so after acquiring some early Calder Cup Playoff scars. Following five demanding games against the Manitoba Moose in the teams’ Central Division semifinal series, the Admirals will have a bit of a reprieve before opening the best-of-five division finals against the Chicago Wolves

Colorado advanced to the Pacific Division Finals with a 5-2 win in Ontario on Sunday night. The Eagles swept the best-of-five series in three straight, setting up a meeting with the Stockton Heat in the next round. Mikhail Maltsev, Jayson Megna and Stefan Matteau gave Colorado a 3-0 lead before the Reign finally got on

📝 by Patrick Williams Neither Kris Knoblauch nor Mark Morrison is known around the American Hockey League as a head coach who casually doles out praise. Knoblauch has run the Hartford Wolf Pack for three seasons while Morrison is in his first season guiding the Manitoba Moose following 10 years as an assistant coach at

Chicago took a commanding 2-0 lead in their Central Division semifinal series with a 4-1 win over Rockford on Saturday night at Allstate Arena. The IceHogs will be looking to avoid elimination when they host Game 3 on Sunday evening. Coming off a 6-2 win in Thursday’s series opener, the Wolves outshot their guests 20-1

📝 by Patrick Williams For someone who has made a career out of impressing others, Andrew Poturalski is not all that taken by yet another one of his dominant American Hockey League seasons. This season the Chicago Wolves forward won his second consecutive John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the AHL’s leading scorer. Poturalski’s 101 points

Nick DeSimone and Walker Duehr scored third-period goals to propel the Stockton Heat to a 6-4 win over Bakersfield and a three-game sweep of their Pacific Division semifinal series on Friday night. It is the first Calder Cup Playoff series victory ever for Stockton, which will face the winner of the Ontario-Colorado series in the

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Colorado Eagles defenseman Andreas Englund has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of an illegal check to the head of an opponent, and Eagles forward Kiefer Sherwood has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of a cross-checking incident, both

Zac Dalpe completed his first career playoff hat trick with 3:36 gone in the second overtime as Charlotte prevailed, 7-6, in a wild Game 2 at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport. The Checkers head home with a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series, with Game 3 scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Dalpe opened the scoring 53