Abbotsford Canucks Win 2025 Calder Cup Championship
June 23, 2025 - American Hockey League (AHL) News Release
CHARLOTTE, N.C. ... For the first time in franchise history, the Abbotsford Canucks are Calder Cup champions.
The Canucks wrapped up their first American Hockey League championship tonight with a 3-2 victory over the Charlotte Checkers to win the 2025 Calder Cup Finals series four games to two. Linus Karlsson's league-leading 14th goal of the postseason was the difference as the Canucks rallied from an early two-goal deficit to win Game 6.
Goaltender Artūrs Šilovs won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the most valuable player of the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs. Šilovs, a sixth-round choice by Vancouver in the 2019 NHL Draft, went 16-8 with a 2.01 goals-against average, a .931 save percentage and five shutouts in 24 playoff appearances, including 28 saves n Game 6 tonight. The 24-year-old Šilovs tied an AHL record for wins in a single postseason.
The Canucks' Calder Cup championship is the first ever by a Vancouver affiliate. Under rookie head coach Manny Malhotra, who also won a Calder Cup as a player with the Hartford Wolf Pack in 2000, Abbotsford defeated the Tucson Roadrunners (2-1), the Coachella Valley Firebirds (3-1), the Colorado Eagles (3-2) and the Texas Stars (4-2) before eliminating Charlotte to become just the second team in AHL history to win five series in one playoff year. The Canucks are also the first Calder Cup champion to come out of the Pacific Division since it was formed in 2015.
Abbotsford's victory brings an end to the AHL's 89th season. In operation since 1936, the AHL continues to serve as the top development league for all 32 National Hockey League teams. Nearly 90 percent of today's NHL players are American Hockey League graduates, and more than 100 honored members of the Hockey Hall of Fame spent time in the AHL in their careers.
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