AHL San Antonio Rampage

Rampage Announce AHL Division Lineup and Playoff Format

Published on July 9, 2003 under American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release


San Antonio – The American Hockey League today unveiled a new conference and division alignment and announced the Calder Cup Playoff format for the 2003-04 season. The announcement came from the AHL Board of Governors' annual meeting on Hilton Head Island, S.C.

San Antonio remains in the West Division of the Western Conference, but will now be joined by the Grand Rapids Griffins and the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks. The Houston Aeros, Chicago Wolves, Milwaukee Admirals and Utah Grizzlies make up the remainder of the seven-team West Division. The new conference and division alignment can be found at the end of this release.

At the conclusion of the 2003-04 regular season, the top five teams in each of the four divisions will qualify for the Calder Cup 2004 Playoffs, allowing once again for at least two-thirds of National Hockey League teams' prospects to gain valuable postseason experience.

In each division, the fourth-place team will face the fifth-place team in a best-of-three qualifying round. Each subsequent round will be a best-of-seven. In the division semifinals, the first-place team will face the qualifying winner and the second-place team will face the third-place team from each division. The division finals will match the semifinal winners within each division, with those winners advancing to their respective conference final. Conference final winners will advance to the Calder Cup 2004 Finals.

Full-season, half-season, ten-game, five-game and flex ticket packages for the Rampage's second season in the AHL are available by calling a Rampage ticket representative at 210-444-5050 or by logging onto sarampage.com.

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division
Hartford Wolf Pack (NYR)
Lowell Lock Monsters (CAR/CGY)
Manchester Monarchs (LA)
Portland Pirates (WSH)
Providence Bruins (BOS)
Springfield Falcons (PHX)
Worcester IceCats (STL)

East Division
Albany River Rats (NJ)
Binghamton Senators (OTT)
Bridgeport Sound Tigers (NYI)
Hershey Bears (COL/TB)
Norfolk Admirals (CHI)
Philadelphia Phantoms (PHI)
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (PIT)

Western Conference

North Division
Cleveland Barons (SJ)
Hamilton Bulldogs (MTL)
Manitoba Moose (VAN)
Rochester Americans (BUF)
St. John's Maple Leafs (TOR)
Syracuse Crunch (CBJ)
Toronto Roadrunners (EDM)

West Division
Chicago Wolves (ATL)
Cincinnati Mighty Ducks (ANA)
Grand Rapids Griffins (DET)
Houston Aeros (MIN)
Milwaukee Admirals (NSH)
San Antonio Rampage (FLA)
Utah Grizzlies (DAL)

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