Admirals Punch Ticket to Post-Season
April 16, 2022 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Milwaukee Admirals News Release
Milwaukee, WI - The Milwaukee Admirals punched their ticket to the Calder Cup Playoffs as they earned a point in a 4-3 OT loss to Iowa at Panther Arena. The Ads scored three goals in the third period to erase a 4-1 deficit and force the extra session to move their magic number to zero.
The Admirals, who were in last place in the division on December 1st, return to the post-season for the first time since the 2018-19 season after COVID cancelled the 2020 playoffs and the Ads didn't play in 2020-21. Currently in third place in the Central, if the playoffs started today Milwaukee would battle second-place Manitoba in a best-of-five division semi-final series.
The AHL's regular season ends on April 30th and the Calder Cup Playoffs will begin immediately afterwards.
Trailing 4-1 heading into the third period the Admirals scored three times, including two off the stick of Cole Smith, to tie the game and force overtime. The first tally was just 24 seconds into the final frame when Smith scored on this third attempt from directly in front of the net to make it 4-2.
Kole Sherwood made it a one-goal game at the 12:22 mark of the third as he had the puck just in front of the Iowa crease and went backhand to forehand before roofing his fifth goal of the season.
Smith knotted the score with his second of the game and his 20th of the season just 50 seconds after Sherwood's tally. Smith gathered the puck along the goaline to the left of Iowa netminder Zane McIntyre, took two strides towards the face-off dot and fire a wrister to the far post.
Unfortunately for the Admirals, Joe Hicketts won the game for the Wild when he snuck one by Connor Ingram 1:45 into the extra session.
The Admirals got on the board first on a beautiful pass from Mathieu Olivier to Grant Mismash just 2:30 into the game.
However, the Wild would score the next four goals to take a 4-1 lead after two periods. They tied the score with 8:40 to play in the first when Adam Beckman deflected a Alexander Khovanov shot past Ads goalie Connor Ingram.
Iowa grabbed the lead at 7:41 of the second period, their first of three in the second, when Kyle Rau potted his team leading 22nd of the season. That was followed by goals from Dominic Turgeon at 15:55 and Mitchell Chaffee just 17 seconds later.
The Admirals are off now until next Wednesday when they host the Texas Stars at 7 pm at Panther Arena.
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