[ad_1] Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Kole Lind passed along a quick story following Game 5 of the Calder Cup Finals on Saturday night. A 3-2 loss at Acrisure Arena had put Lind and the Coachella Valley Firebirds on the brink of elimination for the first time this postseason. The Firebirds must win two games…
[ad_1] Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer The Hershey Bears are flying home today with two chances to make it back-to-back championship seasons. A 3-2 win against the Coachella Valley Firebirds last night in Game 5 of the Calder Cup Finals has given the Bears a 3-2 series lead with Game 6 ahead of them Monday…
[ad_1] PALM DESERT, Calif. (theahl.com) … Jimmy Huntington scored his second goal of the night with 3:15 left in regulation, sending Hershey to a 3-2 win over Coachella Valley and a 3-2 series lead in the 2024 Calder Cup Finals. The Bears are one win away from their second consecutive championship as they prepare to…
[ad_1] Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Win or lose, tonight is the end of an era for Dan Bylsma. The new head coach of the Seattle Kraken will stand behind the home bench at Acrisure Arena for the final time tonight when his Coachella Valley Firebirds host Game 5 of the Calder Cup Finals (9…
[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] PALM DESERT, Calif. (theahl.com) … The line of Hendrix Lapierre, Ethen Frank and Joe Snively provided the Hershey Bears with all of the offense they would need to even the Calder Cup Finals with a 3-2 win in Game 4 at Acrisure Arena on Thursday night. With the best-of-seven series tied at two games…
[ad_1] So much of Shane Wright’s work this season has centered around the less glamorous but absolutely vital parts of the game. For any young AHL forward, that might look something like defensive-zone work, tracking, angling, coverages and all of the other elements that go toward making a well-rounded National Hockey League player. But Wright,…
[ad_1] Photo: Bildbyrån The Carolina Hurricanes named Cam Abbott the new head coach of their American Hockey League affiliate, the Chicago Wolves. Abbott, 40, had spent parts of the last seven seasons as head coach of Rögle BK of the Swedish Hockey League, between November 2017 and December 2023. He guided his team to the…
[ad_1] Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer This was the Coachella Valley Firebirds putting on a show. Back on home ice for the first time since May 31, the Firebirds handed the visiting Hershey Bears a 6-2 loss in Game 3 of the Calder Cup Finals last night and took a two games to one lead…
