“I believe, and our team believes, that we can beat anybody in one game,” Monsters head coach Trent Vogelhuber told reporters after Thursday’s 3-2 win against Hershey in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Facing elimination, the Monsters proved Vogelhuber’s words to be true. Now they have a chance to do it again tonight…
Chris Driedger‘s career has had plenty of ups and downs, and his play this postseason could lead to significant peak if he and the Firebirds can secure six more wins. Coming off an injury-shortened 2022-23 season, Driedger, who backed up Joey Daccord during Coachella Valley’s postseason journey last year, has been the backbone of the…
The Cleveland Monsters worked out any remaining bus legs from Wednesday’s trip to Hershey with a brisk morning skate before Game 1 at Giant Center. “I think our guys have been itching to play,” Monsters head coach Trent Vogelhuber said. “Nobody wants to be practicing this time of year. Our guys came up and focused…
With their eighth straight win last night, the Firebirds are entering rare air as they march on towards a possible second straight conference championship. Only 12 teams in Calder Cup Playoff history have put together a longer postseason winning streak, most recently a 10-game run by Toronto in 2018. The Hershey Bears set the standard…
Devin Shore is adapting quickly to playoff hockey. The nine-year pro has played 443 games in the National Hockey League, but has had minimal experience in the postseason. There were three games with the Texas Stars in 2015 shortly after he turned pro out of the University of Maine. He played two playoff games with…
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms will allow themselves to savor this one, but only briefly. The Phantoms fought off elimination against the defending Calder Cup champion Hershey Bears last night, taking a 2-0 win in Game 3 of the teams’ best-of-five Atlantic Division semifinal series at PPL Center. The series resumes Friday with Hershey still up…
The Milwaukee Admirals are looking to the past as a template for what they hope can become a successful week. With the Admirals facing elimination by Texas in Game 3 of the teams’ best-of-five Central Division Semifinal series tonight, they face the task of having to defeat the Stars in back-to-back games even to force…
An injury kept forward Brandon Biro out of the Rochester Americans’ charge to last year’s Eastern Conference Finals. He is already making significant contributions to this year’s push. Returning healthy, Biro had another one of his typically steady performances in the regular season by supplying 43 points (16 goals, 27 assists) in 59 regular-season games…
The Grand Rapids Griffins have added another young talent to their burgeoning list of prospects. Defenseman Andrew Gibson has signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Detroit Red Wings that will go into effect next season; the Red Wings assigned the 19-year-old to Grand Rapids on an amateur tryout agreement. Selected by Detroit in the…
Remi Poirier of the Texas Stars showed resilience in the Calder Cup Playoffs series against the Manitoba Moose. Despite a challenging start where he allowed eight goals in a game, Poirier bounced back with a 41-save shutout to secure the series win. The quick turnaround led to an impressive performance by Poirier and the Stars,…
