Admirals Cup Gets Underway December 23
December 18, 2013 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Milwaukee Admirals News Release
Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Admirals Governor/CEO Harris Turer announced today that the team will host the Admirals Cup presented by Bradley Corporation from December 23rd through December 27th. For the fifth straight year the Admirals Cup will be an eight-team tournament and the games will take place at the Mullett Center on the campus of Hartland Arrowhead High School and at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The Admirals Cup is held in conjunction with a pair of 7:00 pm Admirals games on December 26th and 27th.
Fond du Lac and De Pere high schools will be first time participants in the Admirals Cup and will join Hartland Arrowhead, Cedarburg, Germantown, Marquette University High School, Mequon Homestead, Whitefish Bay-Nicolet-Shorewood (WNS). Each team will play three games and all of the squads will play one of their games on the BMO Harris Bradley Center ice.
The Admirals Cup will kick off with four games at the Mullett Center (700 North Avenue, Hartland, WI) beginning at 9:00 am on Monday, December 23rd. Games will continue on the 26th at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm at the Mullett Center and 12:06 pm and 2:46 pm at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The Championship Game will take place on Friday, December 27th at 2:46 pm at the BMOBC. A complete schedule of games is attached.
In the opening round of the tournament Homestead will battle WNS, top-seeded Fond du Lac will take on Germantown, defending Admirals Cup Champs Arrowhead will face Marquette and De Pere faces-off with Cedarberg.
The Championship team will then be honored during the Admirals game versus the Charlotte Checkers on Friday evening.
All of the games for The Admirals Cup are free to attend. For BMO Harris Bradley Center games, fans should enter the building through the Potawatomi Gate, with doors opening at 11:30 am on the 26th and 27th. The Championship Game will also be replayed on Sports 32 on Time Warner Cable in Southeast Wisconsin the following week.
This is the eighth season of high school hockey at the Bradley Center and the third with Bradley Corporation as the presenting sponsor.
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