Author: Daniel Lavender

Game Recaps

Tricked Again; Admirals Lose 4-1 in Chicago
(Photo Credit: Dale Woltman)

The Milwaukee Admirals lost 4-1 on the road against the Chicago Wolves at the Allstate Arena on Friday night.

The Wolves entered this game with a ten game winning streak on home ice. That continues forward on the strength of a natural hat trick from Stefan Matteau. The skid for the Admirals has now reached five straight defeats. This is the longest losing streak by the Admirals since the 2014-15 season when they lost seven consecutive games in January 2015. That season the Admirals missed the playoffs.

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Scouting

Wolves: Scouting the Enemy
(Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)

The Milwaukee Admirals first game out of the AHL All-Star break is a road clash against the Chicago Wolves. Things soured for the Admirals in the month of January. They went from a season best four-game winning streak but ended the month on a season worst four-game losing streak. That losing streak is active and all defeats came inside regulation. The Admirals appeared to greatly need the break in order to physically and mentally recharge. With the Wolves tonight and one of the best teams in the AHL, the Manitoba Moose, awaiting for them in Milwaukee the next two games: this is the time for the Admirals to start waking up and playing to their full potential.

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Chatterbox

Chatterbox, Vol. 247
(Photo Credit: Lindsay Mogle)

This afternoon the Milwaukee Admirals returned to practice at the MSOE Kern Center. It was the first team activity out of the AHL All-Star break. The Admirals are gearing up for two-games this weekend which starts tomorrow night on the road against the Chicago Wolves at the Allstate Arena. That will be followed by the first of two meeting at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena against the Manitoba Moose. Those games are on Saturday and Tuesday.

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Fifteen with Jake Paterson
(Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)

In the most recent off-season the Milwaukee Admirals announced the signing of 23-year old goaltender Jake Paterson. It felt like one of those goaltending projects that could have a nice pay-off. Paterson was stuck in the Detroit Red Wings system and never really was afforded the chance to show what he could do on the AHL stage. It has been a rotation heavy time for both Admirals goaltenders behind Anders Lindbäck but lost in that is this has been the longest time spent operating in the AHL in Paterson’s career. It has been an opportunity to learn and to grow.

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Fifteen with Tyler Moy
(Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)

Tyler Moy has barely scratched the surface of his professional career. Yet, it hasn’t taken that long for all of us from the outside to see what a Renaissance Man he is. He arrived out of his collegiate career at Harvard University still grinding away with online classes while making his pro debut with the Milwaukee Admirals in order to graduate on time. And he did with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology.

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Feature

Admiral of the Month: January
(Photo Credit: San Antonio Rampage)

The Milwaukee Admirals month of January started off with such promise. Despite loads of up-down stretches in December there were overtime games and narrow results by month’s end that felt as though the Admirals were slowly turning a corner. January was reflecting that change and the Admirals were able to get a season high four-game winning streak in the process. Yet, ups and downs is the theme that is plaguing the 2017-18 season. It has been the most consistent element of all. And that is why it almost didn’t feel shocking to see the month of January end with a season low in a four-game losing streak which remains active once play resumes after the AHL All-Star break.

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Fifteen with Anders Lindbäck
(Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)

Tonight is the start of the 2018 AHL All-Star Classic festivities from Utica, New York. The event begins with the AHL All-Star Skills Competition at 7:00 PM CST tonight and is followed by the AHL All-Star Challenge tomorrow night at 6:00 PM CST. The Milwaukee Admirals will have two representatives for the event: Anders Lindbäck and Emil Pettersson.

We’ve already had the chance to get to know Pettersson a bit better earlier this season. Now it is time to chat with the Big Swede himself whose journey from being drafted to being an AHL All-Star has been an incredible one to follow.

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Chatterbox

Chatterbox, Vol. 246
(Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)

The Milwaukee Admirals are now on a four-game losing streak following a 4-3 loss against the Ontario Reign last night at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. That was a performance that left me absolutely numb. The Admirals keep having stretches, within a game, where they look and play so well only to see all that positivity get crushed by one mistake. The Admirals were up 1-0 after the first period. They rallied past a bizarre moment to get back in the lead and enter the second intermission up 2-1. And then everything crumbled by way of mistakes.

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Game Recaps

When It Reigns It Pours; Admirals Lose 4-3
(Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)

The Milwaukee Admirals lost 4-3 against the Ontario Reign at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena on Saturday night.

The Admirals had the lead after the first and second period. Yet, the Reign stormed out of the second intermission to score three third period goals to give them an edge that the Admirals couldn’t overcome late. The Admirals, who had a season best four-game winning streak earlier in January, have closed out the month with a four-game losing streak. It is the longest such losing skid since November of last season.

“It’s so frustrating because we had control of the game,” said Milwaukee Admirals head coach Dean Evason after the game. “We think we played extremely well in tonight’s hockey game and we didn’t get rewarded for it. I’m sure that the players feel the same frustration that we’re feeling but we have to take some kind of a positive out of it. The outcome wasn’t what we wanted but the way that we played was the way that we wanted it.”

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Scouting

Reign: Scouting the Enemy
(Photo Credit: Jessica Harsen)

Milwaukee Admirals. Ontario Reign. This is the match-up that I so badly wanted in the 2015-16 season when the two had the best records in the Western Conference. The Reign would finishing with the best record based on points percentage (0.684) but the contentious matter of the Pacific Division featuring teams that played 8 games less than the rest of the league factored in.

The Admirals that season had more wins (48) and more points (101) than the Reign did wins (44) and points (93). It would have been a nice feather in the cap or possibly even a banner worthy moment -but- the Admirals settled with the Central Division -and- neither team eventually made it to a Calder Cup triumph anyways. Still, this is the series that would have been so much fun to see. We finally get a taste of it tonight.

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