As the AHL season begins, FloHockey’s AHL beat writer Patrick Williams will be keeping a semi-regular top 10 in a power rankings of sorts. Check back regularly to see if your favorite team made the list. Here’s the first go-round for the new season. Ranking The AHL’s Top 10 Teams So Far In 2024-25 1.
On Thursday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs took a tough 5-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues. Fans expected Toronto to bounce back strong after a six-goal setback in the prior game, but the Blues quickly dashed those hopes by scoring twice within the first 10 minutes on just five shots. The Maple Leafs’ defensive
Open Extended Reactions We are just over two weeks into the NHL season. Frozen Frenzy is in the books, and in the distance is the triumphant return of best-on-best international hockey at the 4 Nations Face-off. There’s a lot of season left, but there is enough of a sample size to identify the biggest surprise
Nikolaj Ehlers scored the winning goal 1:26 into overtime, and the Winnipeg Jets remained unbeaten this season with a 4-3 win over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night. Winnipeg, which ranks second in NHL scoring, has now scored three or more goals in four consecutive games, and has reached the mark in five of its seven
After a night where all 32 teams took to the ice in the NHL’s Frozen Frenzy, the Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers played the only game on Oct. 23 as the second half of their home-and-home. The Capitals went on to win 6-3 and in the process, forward Pierre-Luc Dubois tallied a goal and two
The Henderson Silver Knights have signed defenseman Calen Addison to an American Hockey League contract for the 2024-25 season. Addison, 24, has spent the last two seasons in the NHL and has totaled 152 big-league appearances overall in four pro campaigns. In 2023-24, he recorded one goal and 16 assists in 72 games between Minnesota
The Minnesota Wild faced their first test at coming back from behind when they took on the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday evening, Oct. 24. They were still without Ryan Hartman and Jared Spurgeon. The game started the same way as the season’s first six games, with the Wild picking up the first goal. It
Associated Press Oct 24, 2024, 11:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik announced Thursday that he has sold a majority stake of the NHL team but will retain control of the franchise for the next three years. The team said the sale for an undisclosed price to
Mats Sundin was in a familiar place. Everything was also very different. It was February 2009. The former captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs was back in his second home, only this time as a member of the opposition. Sundin had signed with the Vancouver Canucks after 13 seasons under the brightest of spotlights in
Hockey is back in full swing and the Pittsburgh Penguins are off to a decent start to the season at 3-4-0. General manager Kyle Dubas was busy during the offseason trying to put the Penguins in the best possible position to make it back to the playoffs. So far, Pittsburgh is performing well and there
Head coach Manny Malhotra came back to the Canucks organization this summer and was ecstatic to see familiar faces in the coaching, development, and management ranks. But on the ice, he didn’t know much about the players, specifically the people he would be coaching. The good news for Malhotra is that he stepped into coaching
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been pretty consistent in regards to their overall play to start the 2024-25 season. With a lot of new players and personnel on the team, many wondered how they would play under head coach Craig Berube’s new style of being intense and strong on the puck. Through seven games, you
Rachel Doerrie, ESPNOct 24, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Rachel Doerrie is a professional data consultant specializing in data communication and modelling. She’s worked in the NHL and consulted for professional teams across North American and Europe. She hosts the Staff & Graph Podcast and discusses sports from a data-driven perspective. Open Extended Reactions The
Right now, the Philadelphia Flyers have a conundrum with their forward lines. Head coach John Tortorella has been mixing up things on a shift-by-shift basis, but nothing has really stuck—his team is 1-4-1 as a result. Related: Flyers Line Combinations From here, what can the Flyers do to help salvage their season? Below, I’m proposing
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Scott Morrow had the Hershey Bears scrambling. It was last Saturday night at Giant Center, where Morrow’s Chicago Wolves had taken the two-time defending Calder Cup champion Bears to overtime. First came Morrow, the 21-year-old rookie defenseman, getting the Bears chasing as he took the puck low to high, held
On Oct. 23, the Philadelphia Flyers got off to a horrific start versus the Washington Capitals, trailing 4-0, but made it a one-goal contest in the final frame. They really could’ve used two points, but they came up short in the end, 6-3. With a 1-5-1 record, what were some takeaways for the Orange and
Brianna Williams, ESPNOct 23, 2024, 04:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off is bringing the best of Canada, Finland, Sweden and the USA to the ice in Montreal and Boston from Feb. 12-20. Editor’s Picks 2 Related But why wait four months to feel the thrill? Team jerseys have dropped, and
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced the four people selected for induction into the American Hockey League Hall of Fame as the Class of 2025. Honored by the AHL Hall of Fame Selection Committee as the latest group of enshrinees are Rene Drolet, Dunc Fisher, Michael Leighton and Michel Picard. The induction of