AHL Quick Hits
Published on June 11, 2006 under American Hockey League (AHL) News Release
Milwaukee regained the upper hand in the 2006 Calder Cup Finals with a 2-0 road win over Hershey in Game 3 last night... The teams go right back at it this evening (6:00 ET), with the Admirals trying to extend their 2-1 series lead and the Bears hoping to pull even once more... Milwaukee has not trailed in a series yet this postseason... When playing on the second of back-to-back nights during the 2006 playoffs, the Admirals are 2-3, while the Bears are 5-1...
Milwaukee's dynamic duo of Darren Haydar and Simon Gamache recorded a goal and an assist each in last night's win... Haydar set an AHL record with his sixth game-winning goal of the postseason, and ran his scoring streak to 13 games, with 14 goals and 11 assists in that span... Gamache's 12 playoff goals are second only to Haydar's 16 on the AHL leaderboard... In his first appearance after allowing six goals in a Game 2 loss, Pekka Rinne (10-1, 2.18, .929) stopped 21 shots for his third shutout of the postseason... Scottie Upshall was credited with eight shots on goal in Game 3, a team high for these playoffs... With their win last night, the Admirals improved to 7-1 on the road this postseason...
Attendance for Game 3 at the Giant Center was 10,840, the largest for a Hershey Bears home game in the club's 68-year history... This evening's contest is sold out as well... Tomas Fleischmann and Kris Beech saw their scoring streaks end at nine games in the shutout loss... Thirteen of Hershey's 21 shots in Game 3 came from defensemen, led by Lawrence Nycholat (four) and Mike Green (three)... The Bears are averaging a league-best 3.88 goals per game in the playoffs, but have been held to a total of one goal in two losses to Milwaukee... Hershey had won six straight home Finals games since its previous loss, a 6-3 defeat to New Brunswick in Game 3 in 1980... Last night marked the Bears' first shutout loss in a home playoff game since a 6-0 setback to Chicago in Game 4 of their 2003 conference quarterfinal; Simon Gamache had a hat trick for the Wolves that night.
2006 Calder Cup Finals
W1-Milwaukee vs. E2-Hershey
Game 1 - MILWAUKEE 2, Hershey 1
Game 2 - Hershey 6, MILWAUKEE 3
Game 3 - Milwaukee 2, HERSHEY 0
Game 4 - Sun 6/11 at Hershey, 6:00
Game 5 - Tue 6/13 at Hershey, 7:00
*Game 6 - Thu 6/15 at Milwaukee, 8:00
*Game 7 - Sat 6/17 at Milwaukee, 8:00
*if necessary... All times Eastern
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ALUMNI WATCH: AHL alum Ryan Smyth scored with 2:15 remaining to give Edmonton a 2-1 win in last night's Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals... Shawn Horcoff also scored for the Oilers, and Jaroslav Spacek recorded two assists... Jussi Markkanen made 24 saves in the win, while Cam Ward stopped 28 shots in defeat.
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BY THE NUMBERS: 9 -- Road shutouts in Calder Cup Finals history... Last night, Milwaukee's Pekka Rinne joined a group that includes Antero Niittymaki (2005), Mike Dunham (1995), Ed Chadwick (1963) and Bobby Perreault (1961, 1959).
34.1 -- Milwaukee's power-play efficiency in Calder Cup Finals play... The Admirals are 4-for-21 in this series (19.0 percent) after going 10-for-20 (50.0 percent) in the 2004 Finals against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
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ON THIS DATE (June 11): 1999 - Martin Biron makes 35 saves and assists on two third-period goals as Rochester avoids a sweep and defeats Providence, 4-2, in Game 4 of the Calder Cup Finals... 1997 - Pascal Trepanier and Steffon Walby each record a goal and an assist as Hershey takes a 3-1 series lead with a 4-2 win in Hamilton... 1996 - Kent Hulst and Martin Gendron pick up three points apiece to lead Portland to a 5-1 win at Rochester, sending the Calder Cup Finals to a deciding seventh game.
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AHL ON B2 NETWORKS: B2 Networks brings all the action of the 2006 Calder Cup Playoffs to your computer with live video webcasts of every game... Visit theahl.com for details.
American Hockey League Stories from June 11, 2006
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