SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League has announced the 2024-25 AHL Top Prospects Team, determined by the league’s hockey operations department in conjunction with AHL general managers as the three forwards, two defensemen and one goaltender projected to be the best future NHL players. To qualify for the AHL Top Prospects Team, skaters must … Read more
The 2025 Calder Cup Finals will get underway Friday night at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C., as the Eastern Conference champion Charlotte Checkers take on the Western Conference champion Abbotsford Canucks. Game 1 – Fri., June 13 – Abbotsford at Charlotte, 7:00Game 2 – Sun., June 15 – Abbotsford at Charlotte, 4:00Game 3 – Tue., … Read more
Max Sasson broke a 2-2 deadlock with 8:10 to play and the Abbotsford Canucks captured their first Western Conference championship with a 4-2 win over Texas in Game 6 at Abbotsford Centre on Sunday evening. The Canucks will take on the Charlotte Checkers in the 2025 Calder Cup Finals beginning Friday. Surrey, B.C., natives Arshdeep … Read more
The Stars have long been able to count on their captain, Curtis McKenzie. McKenzie was the AHL’s rookie of the year in 2013-14 and helped Texas win the Calder Cup. He split the next four years between Texas and Dallas, appearing in 99 NHL games and making another trip to the Calder Cup Finals in … Read more
Curtis McKenzie scored 2:09 into overtime as Texas staved off elimination with a 2-1 win over Abbotsford in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park on Friday night. The Canucks still lead the series, three games to two, as the teams head back north of the border for Game … Read more
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Another day, another series, another opponent, and another challenge await the Texas Stars. Tonight the Stars will again fight for their season when they host the Abbotsford Canucks in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals. The Canucks took a 5-4 overtime win Wednesday night in Game 4 at H-E-B … Read more
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Next stop: The Calder Cup Finals. The Charlotte Checkers swept both the back-to-back Calder Cup champion Hershey Bears and the regular-season champion Laval Rocket to earn the Eastern Conference championship. Charlotte won its eighth straight game on Tuesday night, ending Laval’s season with a come-from-behind 3-2 win at Bojangles Coliseum on … Read more
Photo: Andy Nietupski The Vancouver Canucks have named Brett McLean an assistant coach on the staff of new head coach Adam Foote. McLean spent the past two seasons as head coach of the AHL’s Iowa Wild, posting a combined record of 54-74-10-6. He had previously spent three seasons as an assistant with the Minnesota Wild, … Read more
The Texas power play had not been particularly bad in a pair of road losses to Abbotsford. Nor had the penalty kill. Special-teams play simply had not gotten much work. Texas went a combined 0-for-5 on the power play in those two defeats and took care of Abbotsford’s two power-play chances across the two games … Read more
Danila Klimovich scored a highlight-reel goal 3:21 into double overtime to give Abbotsford a 5-4 win over Texas and a 3-1 series lead in the Western Conference Finals on Wednesday night. The Canucks can secure a trip to the Calder Cup Finals with another win in Game 5 on Friday. Klimovich, drawing into the lineup … Read more