Ahl all star game 2013 wiki

It was a dogfight all the way to the final horn. Ryan Hamilton scored twice securing his hat trick for the West bringing the score to 6 as Tyler Toffoli and Trent Whitfield tickled the twine for the East. As the horn blew to signal the end of the All-Star game there were 84 shots between the two teams and there was only one minor penalty called and that was on Mark Cundari of the Western Conference.

The final score was 7 to 6 Western. Dallas Eakins assumed the position as head coach for the West. Jeff Daniels backed Eakins up on the bench. The Syracuse Crunch was very well represented in the Eastern locker room having four skaters plus a coach in the competition. We are really humbled that we went, but I think there are a few other guys on our team that could have made it on. So four players, one coach, and two team members who serve off the ice were selected.

Hamilton secured his MVP status when he completed his hat trick with seconds remaining in the game. The year-old is leading all rookies in assists and has 7 points in 5 games. Anyone who plays fantasy hockey needs to add Conacher to their roster right away.

The league offices are located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and its current president is David Andrews. The current champions are the Norfolk Admirals. Although the Can-Am League never operated with more than six teams, for the first time in its history it dropped after the —36 season to just four member cities: Springfield, Philadelphia, Providence and New Haven. At the same time the then rival International Hockey League lost half of its eight members after the —36 season leaving it as well with just four clubs located in Buffalo, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.

With both leagues down to the barest minimum in membership needed to operate, the governors of each recognized the necessity to take proactive steps to assure the long-term survival of their member clubs. To that end they all decided the logical solution to their common problem was for the two leagues to play an interlocking schedule with each other.

In addition, the IHL also contributed its former championship silver, the F. A little more than a month into that first season, however, the balance and symmetry of the new combined circuit suffered an early setback when its membership unexpectedly fell to seven as the West's Buffalo Bisons were forced to cease operations on December 6, , after playing just eleven games because of what proved to be insurmountable financial problems and lack of access to a suitable arena.

The makeshift new I-AHL thus played out the rest of its first season as well as all of the next with just seven teams. A modified three-round playoff format was devised and a new championship trophy, the Calder Cup , was established which was awarded for the first time at the end of the —37 season play-offs to the Syracuse Stars who defeated the Philadelphia Ramblers in the finals, three-games-to-one.

Now second only to the Stanley Cup in both age and prestige among North American hockey's championship awards, the Calder Cup continues on today as the AHL's play-off trophy. After two seasons of interlocking play, the governors of the two leagues' seven active teams met in New York City on June 28, , and agreed that it was time to formally consolidate.

The new I-AHL also added an eighth franchise at the meeting to fill the void in its membership left by the loss of Buffalo two years earlier with the admission of the then two-time defending EAHL champion Hershey Bears. Beginning with the —39 season, the newly merged circuit also increased its regular season schedule for each team by six games from 48 to The AHL as it was renamed after the —40 season generally enjoyed both consistent success on the ice and relative financial stability over its first three decades of operation.

In the late s and early s, however, the cost of doing business in pro hockey began to rise precipitously with the frequent expansions of the NHL in , , , and , and especially the advent in of the twelve-team World Hockey Association WHA , increased the number of major league teams competing for players from six to thirty in just seven years. Player salaries at all levels shot up dramatically with the increased demand and competition for their services.

To help compensate for this increased expense many NHL clubs cut way back on the number of players they kept under contract for development, and players under AHL contracts could now also demand much higher paychecks to remain with their clubs.

As a result within a period of just three years from to half of the AHL's teams folded dropping the league from twelve clubs to just six. Making the AHL's situation even bleaker as the —78 season approached was the news that the Providence Reds—the last surviving uninterrupted franchise from —37—had decided to cease operations.

The AHL appeared in serious danger of folding altogether in another year or two if this dangerous downward trend were not reversed.

As these clouds appeared their darkest, however, two events in the Fall of helped reverse the trend and began the league back to the great health it enjoys today.

The first of these was the decision of the Philadelphia Flyers to return to the league as a team owner. The second was the unexpected collapse of the North American Hockey League just weeks before the start of the —78 season. The Flyers' new AHL franchise became the immediately successful Maine Mariners which brought the new AHL city of Portland, Maine both the regular season and Calder Cup play-off titles in each of that club's first two seasons of operation.

The folding of the NAHL meanwhile left two of its member cities which wanted to continue to operate teams—Philadelphia and Binghamton—suddenly without a league to play in. Binghamton solved its problem by acquiring and moving the Reds' franchise from Providence and joined the league as the Binghamton Dusters aka Broome Dusters. Hampton folded on February 10, , but was replaced the next year by the New Brunswick Hawks. The league continued to grow steadily over the years reaching 20 clubs by the —01 season.

In —02 its membership jumped dramatically to 27 in —02 mostly by absorbing six cities—Milwaukee, Chicago, Houston, Salt Lake City as Utah , Winnipeg as Manitoba , and Grand Rapids—from the International Hockey League when that long time rival circuit folded after fifty-six seasons of operation — The Utah Grizzlies suspended operations after the —05 season the franchise was sold in and returned to the ice in Cleveland in as the Lake Erie Monsters.

Chicago and Milwaukee have made multiple trips to the playoff finals since their inception into the league. One oddity caused by this expansion is that the league now has two teams with the same nickname: the Milwaukee Admirals and the Norfolk Admirals. Paralleling the National Hockey League's Winter Classic and Heritage Classic, the Outdoor Classic pits two regional rivals in a game in an outdoor stadium; with the AHL being based mainly in minor league cities, the stadiums are usually smaller than the ones the Winter Classic uses.

To date, all three Outdoor Classics have featured two teams from neighboring or nearby cities; the first two games were held on the third weekend of February.

The Mirabito Outdoor Classic was the first ever outdoor hockey game in the history of the 74 year American Hockey League. The game set an AHL attendance record with 21, people making history. The Whale Bowl was a highlight of a multiple-day "Whalers Hockey Fest" organized by the Whale in honor of the former Hartford Whalers; prior to the game, two other hockey games were held on the outdoor surface, including a college hockey game between the Army Black Knights and American International College Army won , as well as an alumni game between alumni of the Boston Bruins and Hartford Whalers which ended in a tie which drew 10, fans.

The Providence Bruins defeated the Connecticut Whale in a shootout, The contest was the third outdoor game in AHL history and it more than doubled the league's previous single-game attendance mark. Said game will feature a match-up between the Toronto Marlies and the Hamilton Bulldogs , on January 21, A crowd of 20, spectators watched the hometown Bulldogs fall to the Marlies, 7—2. Two outdoor games have been announced for the AHL season. Then on Jan. The game resulted with the Penguins winning in overtime.

The founding members were formally inducted, on February 1, The event was not played again until the —55 season, and was then held annually until the —60 season.