so where are they? i'm too lazy to look myself.
Stephen Baby's Chicago Wolves are leading Cincinnatti 1 game to none in the second round of the AHL playoffs. They have dressed the same team for the first six post-season games. They have one RW (Baby), one LW, one C, 4 D, and 2 G on the roster but not playing.
http://www.caldercup.com/AHLStatistics0405/chicago_cc.html
Charlie Cook's Philadelphia Phantoms are leading their second round series 1-0 over Wilkes Barre/Scranton. After seven games, Cook hasn't played, but is one of three defensemen on the roster sitting out.
http://www.caldercup.com/AHLStatistics0405/philadelphia_cc.html
Charlie Cook picked up a holding penalty in Philadelphia's playoff win last night. It looks as though he maybe be playing on the fourth line.
Probably not on the fourth line, unless Philly wants to make him a forward. The AHL web site doesn't list lines/pairings.
Cook was +1 in Philadelphia's win last night.
[Q]Brian Wrote:
Cook was +1 in Philadelphia's win last night.[/q]
From the gamesheet
http://www.pointstreak.com/framed/prostats/gamesheet_full.html?gameid=206083
Charlie was on the ice for one goal in the 5-3 win, a 4-on-4 goal scored by R. J. Umberger (unassisted), previously from Ohio State.
[Q]jkahn Wrote:Charlie was on the ice for one goal in the 5-3 win, a 4-on-4 goal scored by R. J. Umberger (unassisted), previously from Ohio State.[/q]What is Umberger's current signing status? Is he a minor league FA or is he still property of the (IIRC) Rangers?
[Q]ugarte Wrote:
[Q2]jkahn Wrote:Charlie was on the ice for one goal in the 5-3 win, a 4-on-4 goal scored by R. J. Umberger (unassisted), previously from Ohio State.[/Q]
What is Umberger's current signing status? Is he a minor league FA or is he still property of the (IIRC) Rangers?[/q]
Still property of the Rangers. Vancouver traded his rights in exchange for Rucinsky just before the trade deadline in 2004. What a bust. ::yark::
He's not property of the Rangers...the Rangers didn't sign him in the window they had after they acquired his rights from Vancouver. He became a free agent and signed with the Flyers in June of last year.
Stephen Baby played in the Wolves 4-1 win over Cincinnati on Friday the 13th. He had two shots, and was +0 with 0 PIM.
Chicago advances to the Conference Finals to face the Manitoba Moose.
From the TSN morning email...
The Chicago Wolves held off a late rally by the Manitoba Moose to win the opening game of the AHL's Western Conference final 4-3 Thursday night. Manitoba, trailing by three goals with four minutes left, made it close on goals by Cory Pecker at 16:11 and by Lee Goren at 18:40. Derek MacKenzie, Tim Wedderburn, J.P. Vigier and Stephen Baby scored for the Wolves, who had a 26-19 shots advantage
[Q]dss28 Wrote:
From the TSN morning email...
The Chicago Wolves held off a late rally by the Manitoba Moose to win the opening game of the AHL's Western Conference final 4-3 Thursday night. Manitoba, trailing by three goals with four minutes left, made it close on goals by Cory Pecker at 16:11 and by Lee Goren at 18:40. Derek MacKenzie, Tim Wedderburn, J.P. Vigier and Stephen Bâby scored for the Wolves, who had a 26-19 shots advantage[/q]
I think they ended up changing the scoring because the AHL box score took the goal away from Baby and gave it to someone else. Anyway, he was involved in the game-winning goal play somehow :-). Also, he was +1 for the night.
A lot of affiliation musical chairs going on in the AHL.
Colorado moved their affiliation from Hershey to Lowell (thereby doubling up with Carolina). Washington stepped in to save the Hershey Bears (better've - they've been around for 60+ years), in the process leaving Portland hanging. Now someone who will be announced Monday is stepping in to Portland.
Who could it be? Well, it could be Anaheim who dropped their affiliation with Cincinnati, thereby suspending operations in Cincy. Or it could be Phoenix, after Utah suspended operations for the same reason.
Why mention this here? Well, Lenny won't be in Utah next year, cause no one will be. Could be in Portland, or else who knows.
Overall, the AHL will be even next year. Losing Utah and Cincy (at least temporarily), but gaining Iowa and Omaha. Also, St. John's moves to Toronto (the Marlies) and Worcester moves to Peoria (the Rivermen, named after their ECHL (?) team).
Edit: Portland and Anaheim make it official, 5 year affiliation deal. So only Phoenix needs to figure out what it's doing for next year.
This is old news, but last month, in the first round of the CHL playoffs, Bossier-Shreveport was down 3-1 in a best of 7 series to Wichita. In Game 5, Shane Palahicky scored in the second overtime to make the series 3-2. He also had the game-winner in game 6 to even the series. Unfortunately, the Muddogs lost game 7 in overtime. For the playoffs (7 games), Palahicky had 3 goals and 1 assist. Travis Bell, also on the team, finished with no points, but was +1.
Chicago advances
As previously noted, the Chicago Wolves beat Manitoba 4 games to 0 to advance to the finals of the Calder Cup. Baby has played in the last 6 of the Wolves' 14 playoff games so far, getting his chance due to an injury to Karl Stewart. He is the only player on the team with a negative +/- in the playoffs (-1). He's fifth on the team in penalty minutes/game (12/6), all from a single incident. He picked up an unspostsmanlike conduct and a misconduct for his part in a ten-player brawl early in the second period of the second game against Manitoba.
http://www.caldercup.com/AHLStatistics0405/chicago_cc.html