[ad_1] Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets won the Vezina Trophy as the National Hockey League’s outstanding goaltender for the 2023-24 season, one of several honors garnered by American Hockey League alumni at Thursday’s NHL Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. It was the second career Vezina Trophy win for Hellebuyck, who…
[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League honored Megan Cahill, vice president of communications and digital media for the Syracuse Crunch, and Bo Molina, ticket sales manager for the Texas Stars, with league awards at the 2024 AHL Team Business Meetings in Rosemont, Ill., today. Cahill has been named the winner of the league’s…
[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League is holding the 2024 AHL Team Business Meetings presented by Victory Live this week, with more than 300 representatives from the league and its member clubs gathering at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare Chicago in Rosemont, Ill. Front-office personnel from throughout the American Hockey League are gathering to…
[ad_1] Even on the brink of winning a second consecutive Calder Cup, Hershey head coach Todd Nelson still wants more from his players. “We played against a Coachella team that I thought checked really well,” Nelson said after his team’s Game 5 victory. “We were pretty sloppy in the first period. That’s a credit to…
[ad_1] Nick Leivermann made his playoff debut in Game 4, the 10th different defenseman employed by Bears head coach Todd Nelson this postseason. A seventh-round draft pick by Colorado in 2017, Leivermann played five seasons at the University of Notre Dame before signing an AHL contract with Hershey last summer. He served as team captain…
[ad_1] Photos: Jeff Pexton, Tim Garland The Minnesota Wild have acquired 2024 AHL All-Star forward Graeme Clarke from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forward Adam Beckman. Clarke skated in 67 games with the AHL’s Utica Comets in 2023-24, tying a career high with 25 goals and adding 24 assists for 49 points. In…
[ad_1] Even in going down 2-0 on the road in the opening minutes of Game 3, Bears captain Dylan McIlrath felt that his team had emerged relatively unscathed. “I thought that we were fine, to be honest, in the first,” McIlrath said during the post-game press conferences on Tuesday night. “I thought our compete, everything…
[ad_1] All Jimmy Huntington could do is marvel when asked about linemate Pierrick Dubé. That Dubé is even playing right now is a testament to his grit, to say nothing of modern-day dentistry. The 23-year-old lost “five or six” teeth during Hershey’s Eastern Conference Finals battle with Cleveland. After undergoing oral surgery and missing three…
[ad_1] After backing up Joey Daccord on the Firebirds’ run to Game 7 of the Calder Cup Finals last year, the net belongs to Chris Driedger this year. He has played every minute of the postseason so far, including Friday’s 4-3 win in Game 1 the Finals rematch against the Bears on Friday. When the Bears…
[ad_1] Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Dan Bylsma knows a juicy storyline when he sees it. It’s mid-June, and Bylsma’s Coachella Valley Firebirds are fighting with their new cross-country rival, the Hershey Bears, for the Calder Cup. Again. The AHL’s senior franchise versus its newest. Two fan bases that ranked in the top five of…
