Faxes from Uncle Dale

Tag: AHL

  • High On The Hog: View From The Top

    High On The Hog: View From The Top

    The Rockford IceHogs were left a bit shorthanded for last weekend’s action. Adam Clendening, Joakim Nordstrom and Phillip Danault are all traveling with the Blackhawks. Mark McNeill and Michael Leighton are recovering from injuries. It wasn’t a stretch for you to believe the Hogs might take some lumps with three Midwest Division games in three days.

    In this case, you’d be wrong.

    Rockford ran the table this weekend, winning home games with Iowa and Milwaukee at the BMO Friday and Saturday before shutting out the Wolves in Chicago Sunday afternoon. With 29 points through 19 games, Rockford (14-4-0-1) is currently on top of the AHL.

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  • High On The Hog: Doin’ The Shuffle

    High On The Hog: Doin’ The Shuffle

    The Rockford IceHogs saw an eight-game win streak come to an end in with two losses to the Milwaukee Admirals in the first two games of a three-game weekend. Rockford finished their first three-games in three-nights stretch of the season with a home win in front of a pseudo sell-out audience at the BMO Center Sunday.

    With that win, Rockford reclaimed the top spot in the AHL’s Midwest Division. They remain in the second spot in the Western Conference standings with 23 points in 16 games.

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  • High On The Hog: Doin' The Shuffle

    High On The Hog: Doin' The Shuffle

    The Rockford IceHogs saw an eight-game win streak come to an end in with two losses to the Milwaukee Admirals in the first two games of a three-game weekend. Rockford finished their first three-games in three-nights stretch of the season with a home win in front of a pseudo sell-out audience at the BMO Center Sunday.

    With that win, Rockford reclaimed the top spot in the AHL’s Midwest Division. They remain in the second spot in the Western Conference standings with 23 points in 16 games.

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  • High On The Hog: McNeill Makes With The Boom

    High On The Hog: McNeill Makes With The Boom

     

    The Rockford IceHogs have been on fire to start the 2014-15 AHL season. Win or lose, this is going to be a fun team to watch. Heading West on I-90, it’s mostly win for the Hogs.

    Rockford has won a franchise-record eight straight and is 10-2-0-1 in a baker’s dozen of games. The IceHogs are on top of the Midwest Division and hold the second spot in the AHL’s Western Conference standings. Mark McNeill’s goal explosion has been a big part of the current surge.

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  • High On The Hog: Going Streaking With A New Captain

    High On The Hog: Going Streaking With A New Captain

    The kids down Rockford way have been red-hot in their last week of action. The IceHogs return to the BMO Harris Bank Center Tuesday with a five-game winning streak in tow.

    Rockford won in Grand Rapids Wednesday and followed that up with back-to-back pastings of the San Antonio Rampage this weekend. The IceHogs are 7-2-0-1 through their first ten games and sit atop the AHL’s Midwest Division as of Monday.

    With 15 points on the 2014-15 campaign, Rockford is currently in second place in the AHL’s Western Conference. The Hogs also have a new captain in place and an offense that has scored 18 times in the last four games. Here are some notes on a very successful road trip.

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  • High On The Hog: That New Car Smell

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    The Rockford IceHogs got the 2014-15 season underway this past Saturday at the BMO Harris Bank Center. The Milwaukee Admirals cast a pall on the festivities for the 5,228 fans in attendance, besting Rockford by a score of 3-2.

    With just one contest in the books, I’m putting this opening game under a bit of a microscope. Here’s how the puck bounced for the IceHogs as they threw open the doors on the new campaign.

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  • High On The Hog: Cue The Lights

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    Photo Credit-Todd Reicher

    Ladies and Gentlemen…your 2014-15 IceHogs

    With some late roster moves coming down in the last few days, it would appear that the opening night roster is nearly set in Rockford for the 2014-15 campaign. As Norman Dale would say, let’s see what kind of hand we’ve been dealt here…

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  • Morning Links 1/23/13

    Morning Links 1/23/13

    3-2: (Chicago Tribune) (Chicago Suntimes) (Daily Herald) (Cheer the Anthem) (Comcast)

    The AHL drops the hammer on the piggies: (The Third Man In)

    Europe was good for Bickell: (Chicago Tribune)

    Q..a changed man?? (FOX)

    I can’t imagine a return to hockey being much bigger: (SportsNet)

    Lokomotiv Yaroslavl clinches a playoff berth: (RSPORT)

    Uniform Porn: (Icethetics)

    This is really important: (The New York Times)

  • Pigs In Zen: 2 Out Of 3 Ain’t Too Shabby

    Pigs In Zen: 2 Out Of 3 Ain’t Too Shabby

    Now that the three of us have returned to our normal, NHL-watching ways, we needed to find someone else to chime in with our Rockford Icehogs update. Luckily, we found one Kim Wrona, from Runs On Duncan.com to help us out with that. So this will be the first installment of Pigs In Zen, Kim’s Hogs update. Now let’s show how adult we can all be by giving here a warm welcome. -Sam

    After winning three games at the end of December, the IceHogs went on to lose four straight to kick off the new year. They rebounded at the end of Week 14 in the AHL as they defeated Grand Rapids and Milwaukee on back-to-back nights.

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  • Morning Links 10/10

    Morning Links 10/10

    Always cite your sources before you get the hammer of the gods brought down on you by the hockey starved interwebs:(Twitter)

    Apparently the AHL is fine, but the I-90 shuffle is better (Autoplay) (CSN)

    Hockey is back with lots of ads and Russians on some fly-by-night tv station:(RT)

    Can’t hold down a grinder:(GnM)

    Hatred Growing: (SN)

    Probably at the time the most hated team in Chicago:(TSUN)