Tag Archives: AHL
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Is This Behind-the-Back Save by AHL Goalie Drew MacIntyre the Save of the Year?
For the last couple of years, the AHL’s Toronto Marlies have enjoyed some extra attention from Toronto hockey fans come playoff time because the NHL’s Maple Leafs had gotten into the habit of booking tee times instead of charter flights come April. However, this year things are different. The Leafs don’t suck, Toronto hockey fans [...]
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AHL Hockey Player Gets Face Slashed Open By Teammate’s Skate Blade (Video)
Auto racing is probably the most dangerous sport in terms of constant potential for fatal injury. But when it comes to constant potential for gruesome injury, hockey takes the cake. No other sport has quite as many dangerous variables. That’s not to say you won’t see horrific soccer injuries, or horrific football injuries. Obviously, those [...]
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Chicago Wolves and Rockford IceHogs Engage in Epic St. Patty’s Day Hockey Brawl (Video)
You would expect the Chicago Wolves and Rockford IceHogs of the AHL to have a pretty fierce rivalry. For starters, the two teams play their home games about an hour and a half away from each other. On top of that, you have the fact that the IceHogs are the farm team for the beloved [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 14th) — Gordie Howe
It was on this day in 1997 that a 68-year-old Gordie Howe signed a contract with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch. He was attempting to become the first player to play professional hockey in six consecutive decades. Unfortunately, Howe’s comeback had to be canceled because the Crunch were in the playoff hunt and could not afford [...]
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Grand Rapids Griffins and Rockford IceHogs Engage In Bench-Clearing Hockey Brawl (Video)
With the NHL back in action, many of you hockey fans out there may have a tough time continuing to watch AHL games (that is, if you were even watching them in the first place). But on Saturday, the Rockford IceHogs and the Grand Rapids Griffins reminded the hockey world of one thing–when it comes [...]
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This Hockey Fight From the AHL Was Worth the Price of Admission (Video)
Hockey fans all over the world are certainly grateful that by this time next week the NHL will be back in action. However, the absence of the NHL over the last four months hasn’t deprived us of noteworthy hockey highlights. After all, many NHLers were keeping sharp by playing over in Europe (sometimes in the [...]
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Check Out This WWE Style Hockey Brawl Courtesy of the AHL (Video)
I miss the NHL as much as anybody, but I have to admit that there is an awful lot to like about those lesser-known hockey leagues. For one thing, you have awesome team names you don’t get in the NHL, like the Adirondack Phantoms, Charlotte Checkers, Lake Eerie Monsters, and Rockford IceHogs. And for another [...]
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AHL's Abbotsford Heat Scores Two Goals In 3 Seconds (Video)
In the world of sports, you wouldn't think that there is much an athlete can accomplish in just three seconds, but as we've learned in the past, that couldn't be further from the truth. For starters, there was little-known MMA fighter Steve Ramirez who needed just three seconds to record a knockout at a PureCombat [...]
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A Couple Of AHL Goalies Duked It Out Saturday Night (Video)
Hey, NHL, who needs you? You think other hockey leagues don’t give us great goals and line brawls? Well, they do! And while sometimes the highlights from these other leagues aren’t quite as impressive at the ones we’d get from the NHL,that certainly isn’t always the case. Take this goalie fight from Saturday night, for [...]
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The Toronto Marlies Lost A Calder Cup Game In Overtime In The Worst Possible Way (Video)
For the most part, Toronto sports franchises these days haven’t exactly been good. In fact, you could probably argue that they have all downright sucked. The Toronto Raptors haven’t won a playoff series since 2001, the Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t made the playoffs since 2004, the Toronto Blue Jays haven’t made the playoffs since they [...]
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AHL’s Rockford IceHogs And Milwaukee Admirals Engage In Bench-Clearing Brawl (Video)
If you want to see a line-brawl, the NHL has proven on a few occasions this season that they are capable of providing just that. However, if it is a bench-clearing brawl that you are looking for, the NHL can’t help you out with that. But the AHL can! Fans at the Bradley Center found [...]
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AHL’s Steve MacIntyre Loses His Marbles, Attacks Goalie Twice (Video)
Approximately two months ago, the Pittsburgh Penguins waived left winger Steve MacIntyre and sent him to their AHL affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. However, with Sidney Crosby expected to make his return to the line-up in the near future, the NHL’s Penguins may want to consider calling MacIntyre back up to “the show” so that they [...]
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Drunk Female Treats Railing At A Hockey Arena Like A Stripper Pole (Video)
Talk about inspiring your team to victory! During a Grand Rapids Griffins game a few weeks ago, this young lady, who appears to have taken down one too many strawberry daiquiris, decided to get the hometown crowd revved up with her passionate rail dancing. And just when she seemed to hit her peak with some [...]
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Dude In A Pink Jersey Shatters The Glass Onto Pink Ice (Video)
You have probably never seen a hockey player in a pink jersey skate full-steam into the boards and shatter the glass onto a rink with pink ice, have you? Well thanks to some footage from the Lake Erie Monsters’ Friday night game against the Rockford IceHogs, you can now check that one off your list. [...]
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AHL Defenseman Sean Sullivan Delivers The Perfect Hip Check (Video)
When Los Angeles Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi sent Columbus Blue Jackets forward Jason Chimera soaring head over heals with a hip check a few years back, we had some trouble determining whether the hit was clean or dirty. Did Scuderi go to low? Should Chimera have been prepared to endure such a check? It was [...]
