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Devin Shore and Max McCormick scored back-to-back power-play goals midway through the third period to send Coachella Valley to a 7-5 win over Calgary at Acrisure Arena on Wednesday night. The Firebirds lead the best-of-five Pacific Division semifinal series, two games to one, and will host Game 4 on Friday. With Wranglers leading scorer Adam…
Devin Shore scored on a wraparound 7:54 into overtime to give Coachella Valley a 4-3 win over Calgary in a back-and-forth Game 2 of their Pacific Division semifinal on Sunday afternoon. The best-of-three series is tied at one game apiece heading back to Palm Desert, where the Firebirds will host Game 3 on Wednesday. Shore’s…
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Last June the Coachella Valley Firebirds endured an ultimate gut punch. They had built a 2-0 series lead in the Calder Cup Finals by shutting out Hershey in Games 1 and 2. They had staved off elimination by taking Game 6. They were in front of their passionate fans in…
The Coachella Valley Firebirds clinched a berth in the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs on Friday night, securing a chance to defend their Western Conference championship. A year after reaching the Calder Cup Finals in their inaugural season, the Firebirds sit atop the Pacific Division and own the second-best record in the entire league. The top…
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer It only seems that Coachella Valley Firebirds forward Shane Wright is older than his birth certificate indicates. Wright, after all, has been a household hockey name for years. Nothing has been normal or routine for him. He was barely a teenager when he was already attracting attention as an emerging…
by Judd Spicer | AHL On The Beat As the Coachella Valley Firebirds ready to pen the final chapters of the 2023-24 regular season, head coach Dan Bylsma is following the narrative word for word. Literally and, well, literarily. Long a voracious reader, Bylsma’s influence on the Firebirds is a pairing of words both spoken…
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer “It does feel similar.” Coachella Valley Firebirds goaltender Chris Driedger said that in a post-game press conference on Thursday after a 4-0 win over San Jose on Thursday evening, his second consecutive shutout. The victory moved the first-place Firebirds to 8-0-1-1 in their previous 10 games. Last season, Driedger joined…
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League’s Player Safety Committee today announced that Coachella Valley Firebirds forward Cameron Hughes has been suspended for two (2) games as a consequence of his actions in a game at Henderson on Jan. 24. Hughes will miss Coachella Valley’s games tonight (Jan. 26) and Saturday (Jan. 27) at Texas….
by Judd Spicer | AHL On The Beat A goal is never just a goal, a save is never just a save, a win is never just a win. While hockey, on its icy surface, is a game of seeming alacrity and immediacy, behind each accomplishment (or, every plight) are hundreds of behind-the-scenes hours of…
