Wednesday, May 12, 2010

AHL Update

As compelling as the NHL playoffs have been thus far, the AHL playoffs also deserve mention. We will periodically update the AHL playoff brackets as well, and here is how they stand at the moment, with only four teams left.

Eastern Conference Finals:

Manchester (LA Kings)
vs.
Hershey Bears (defending AHL champions)

Series 1-0 Hershey after beating Manchester on Wednesday night in Game 1 4-2. Kings prospect Jonathan Bernier made 24 saves in the losing effort. The series resumes in Hershey on Saturday night.

Western Conference Finals:

Texas Stars (Dallas)
vs.
Hamilton Bulldogs (Montreal)

Series begins on Friday night. Not only are the Habs going to the conference finals, but so is their minor league team. For Texas, Jamie Benn, who played well in the NHL for Dallas, has scored eight goals in 11 games. It appears that Hershey is the favorite to win the cup and we will be keeping an eye on how these series' progress.

1 comment:

  1. Monarchs Bud Holloway has 6 game winning goals entering their match up with the Hershey Bears.I'm hoping he gets at least 2 more before the series is over.

    Hershey's tuff.It should be a great test for the best goalie in the AHL Jonathan Bernier.

    Texas I don't really know much about.The game I watched of Hamilton had an awful lot of glorious chances against,but Hamilton found a way to hang on.

    Thanks guys for the update.

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