Let’s take a spin across the AHL with this week’s newest information and notes.
MANITOBA
Wins proceed to pile up for the Winnipeg Jets, who’re off to a 15-1-0 begin after dealing with the New York Rangers on Tuesday night time, 6-3.
Nonetheless, the season’s first month has been much more rocky for his or her AHL affiliate, the 3-7-0-0 Manitoba Moose. After dropping back-to-back 5-2 selections this previous weekend at Texas, the Moose have misplaced 4 in a row and are on the backside of the Central Division. Their schedule hardly eases up on them, both. They go to the 9-2-0-0 Milwaukee Admirals this morning earlier than transferring on to stops at Rockford and Chicago this weekend.
2024 Manitoba Moose vs Milwaukee Admirals
They’ve allowed 3.30 objectives per recreation, leaving them twenty first within the AHL. So the Jets went out and fortified their organizational depth chart in web Tuesday, bringing again goaltender Kaapo Käkhönen through waivers from the Colorado Avalanche. As a result of Colorado had claimed the 28-year-old Käkhönen on waivers from Winnipeg on Oct. 11, the Jets have been capable of assign instantly to the Moose without having waivers this time. This season the Moose have cut up goaltending work between 21-year-old Thomas Milic and rookie Domenic DiVincentiis, who’s 20.
Käkhönen had signed with the Jets within the offseason and was anticipated to compete with Eric Comrie for the crew’s back-up job. Comrie gained that job, and Käkhönen finally discovered himself in Colorado. He made one look for the Avs together with two extra with the Colorado Eagles. Final season he performed 37 video games between the San Jose Sharks and New Jersey Devils (7-24-3 | 3.64 | .898).
Whereas Käkhönen has had an up-and-down efficiency on the NHL degree with the Avs, Devils, Sharks, and Minnesota Wild, he has been a standout within the AHL. He performed two seasons with the Iowa Wild and gained the Aldege “Baz” Bastien Memorial Award because the AHL’s high goaltender in 2019-20. That season with Iowa, he had a league-best seven shutouts and was 25-6-3 | 2.07 | .927 in 34 video games.
ABBOTSFORD
Artūrs Šilovs, one of many high tales of final spring’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, made a quick encore with the Abbotsford Canucks this previous weekend.
With simply 9 NHL video games behind him, Šilovs stepped in web for the Vancouver Canucks following accidents to Thatcher Demko and Casey DeSmith. He ended up taking part in 10 video games (5-5 | 2.91 | .898) and had a 42-save night time in Sport 3 of Vancouver’s second-round sequence towards the Edmonton Oilers.
Demko stays out, and DeSmith is now with the Dallas Stars, so Šilovs had an opportunity to take management of the Vancouver web. Nonetheless, he struggled instantly and is 0-2-1 | .477 | .808. After a third-period aid effort final Saturday towards the Oilers, his first motion since Oct. 30, the membership assigned him to Abbotsford.
Šilovs received a begin the subsequent night time towards visiting Bakersfield, and his 23 saves helped arrange a 4-2 house win. Vancouver recalled him this previous Monday, and he backed up Kevin Lankinen in Tuesday night time’s 3-1 house win towards the Calgary Flames.
CALGARY
Life at house suited the Calgary Wranglers nicely.
They went 6-2-0-0 on an eight-game homestand and have a league-best 11 wins (11-3-0-0). Now comes life on the highway for the Wranglers, who’ve been stationed in Calgary for almost three weeks.
A seven-game swing begins Friday night time at San Jose as a two-game set with the Barracuda begins. The journey will function extra stops at San Diego, Tucson, and Manitoba. They don’t return to Scotiabank Saddledome till Dec. 6 towards Tucson. Between now and Dec. 18, they’ve 10 of their subsequent 14 contests on the highway.
PROVIDENCE
The Windfall Bruins unveiled a brand new third jersey Tuesday, and it pays homage to the dad or mum Boston Bruins “Pooh Bear” Nineties-era brand.
⏪ Rewinding to Retro ⏪ Get your first have a look at our all-new alternate sweaters, set to debut on #AHLBruins Retro Weekend (Nov 30/Dec 1) ⤵️
🟡 Replicates styling of late 90s/early 00s jerseys
🟡 Reversed coloring: Gold 🔄 Black
🟡 Reversed logos: Entrance Crest 🔄 Shoulder Patch pic.twitter.com/j8QRaXOGQJ— Windfall Bruins (@AHLBruins) November 12, 2024
Windfall gained its solely Calder Cup in 1999 with jerseys bearing related styling to this new look. Led by head coach Peter Laviolette, the P-Bruins’ worst-to-first marketing campaign featured a 70-point enchancment from 1997-98 together with a 37-win improve. Randy Robitaille, named the league’s Most worthy participant, had a 102-point common season earlier than the P-Bruins finally completed off Rochester in a five-game sequence to take the Calder Cup. It was the town’s first Calder Cup title since 1956 when the Windfall Reds gained their fourth and remaining championship.
The Boston-Windfall partnership dates again to 1992-93 and is the AHL’s longest-running uninterrupted affiliation. Windfall will debut its alternate have a look at house Nov. 30 towards Utica.
ROCKFORD
NHL veteran Andreas Athanasiou finds himself again within the AHL for the primary time because the 2015-16 season.
Again then, Athanasiou was a 21-year-old prospect within the Detroit Pink Wings group and wrapping up his time with the Grand Rapids Griffins. The ahead has performed 492 NHL video games with Detroit, Edmonton, the Los Angeles Kings, and the Chicago Blackhawks. It was the Hawks who signed him to a free-agent deal in July 2022, and after he delivered a 20-goal season he acquired a two-year extension in June 2023. However he performed simply 28 video games final season with Chicago (2-7-9) and went scoreless in 5 appearances this season.
He had not dressed for Chicago since Oct. 22. After clearing waivers Tuesday, the Hawks assigned him to the Rockford IceHogs.
SYRACUSE
Friday night time shall be a homecoming when Alex Barré-Boulet and the Laval Rocket go to Syracuse for the primary time this season.
Barré-Boulet spent six seasons with the Crunch, setting franchise data in objectives (113), assists (189), and factors (302). After taking part in 36 video games final season for the Tampa Bay Lightning, he signed with the Montreal Canadiens on the primary day of free company. The 27-year-old ahead made the Montreal roster out of coaching camp however was despatched to the Rocket after solely two video games.
In seven video games for the Rocket, he’s second in crew scoring with 3-8-11.
UTICA
With only one recreation this weekend, the Utica Comets have to make this center stretch of November depend.
After a 4-0 house loss to Cleveland started their week, the Comets are winless by way of their first 12 video games (0-9-1-2). They noticed a bid for his or her first win slip away final Saturday night time at Lehigh Valley, the place their one-goal lead disappeared with 3:29 to go in regulation in what grew to become a 4-3 additional time loss to the Phantoms.
One month of hockey has been a grueling one for the Comets, who have already got a minus-30 purpose differential (51-21). Head coach Kevin Dineen was let go final Wednesday and changed by Ryan Dad or mum on an interim foundation for the rest of the season. Veterans Justin Dowling and Nick DeSimone are on recall to New Jersey, although the Devils did ship 20-year-old Simon Nemec to Utica for taking part in time, and the Comets have struggled to get offensive manufacturing from a lot of their veteran core. Utica’s subsequent recreation is that this Saturday when Syracuse visits within the groups’ first assembly because the Crunch took a 5-0 opening-night win. The Comets is not going to play once more after that till Nov. 22, affording them ample follow time.
The 1987-88 Baltimore Skipjacks (0-19-2) personal the AHL file for the longest winless streak from the beginning of a season at 21 video games. That crew had simply misplaced its affiliation with Pittsburgh. Pressured to go unaffiliated, Baltimore finally completed 13-58-9.
WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltender Filip Larsson is making his second flip by way of the AHL depend.
Then 20 years outdated, Larsson went to the AHL in 2019-20 following a standout freshman effort on the College of Denver. Signed by Detroit, he ended up taking part in simply seven video games with Grand Rapids together with one other 10 for his or her ECHL affiliate, the Toledo Walleye. So Larsson went again to Sweden, spending three seasons in HockeyAllsvenskan together with a quick cease in Denmark. Ultimately he labored his approach as much as the SHL, the place we completed 19-9-0 | 1.93 | .920 final season for Leksands.
That work secured him a brand new two-year contract from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Beginning this season with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, the 26-year-old has two shutouts in his first 4 appearances. After blanking Rochester final Saturday night time at house, he has now stopped 94 of the previous 95 photographs that he has seen (.989).
Tristan Jarry, who appeared in 5 AHL video games whereas on a conditioning mortgage, is now again with Pittsburgh.
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