Author: Daniel Lavender

News

Keeping Tabs on Victor Ejdsell
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There are a lot of reasons to be excited about Eeli Tolvanen. The Finnish forward has already surpassed Evgeny Kuznetsov‘s KHL record set in 2010-11 for the most points produced by a teenager. Tolvanen has amassed 33 points (17 goals, 16 assists) in 41 games with Jokerit and the team has 8 games remaining in their league schedule. It feels quite like the Nashville Predators got themselves a steal with the thirtieth overall selection in the 2017 NHL Draft.

As far as steals go the Predators might have done more in that department. A month prior to the most recent draft they managed to sign forward Victor Ejdsell to a two-year entry-level contract following a 2016-17 season where he earned MVP honors in Sweden’s second flight – Allsvenskan. Similar to Tolvanen, Ejdsell has yet to make the leap into the professional ranks in North America but instead is spending his 2017-18 season playing in a top European league. Ejdsell is showing with HV71 that his efforts that put him on an NHL radar wasn’t a fluke.

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Feature

2017-18 Mid-Season Review
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The Milwaukee Admirals 2017-18 season is officially at its halfway point. It’s been a difficult season to really gauge. October was great. November and December saw a nonstop sequence of ups-and-downs. Lately, things have started to turn for the better. Based on the two months previous to this upward trend it only feels hard to trust that this form will last. Hopefully time will tell.

The Admirals record is 20-14-4-0 (44 points, 0.579 points percentage). They are currently second in the Central Division and fourth in the Western Conference standings. For right now: that’s good. It has been a slightly turbulent season as the results have shaken out but -if- the lessons learned from those down moments are learned from it could mean good things for the second half of the season. The Admirals have a really young defense At times the team’s performance appears to reflect just how well or not well that young defense plays. These early experiences can go a long way into making the overall team stronger.

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Game Recaps

Streak Over; Rampage Beat Admirals 3-1
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The Milwaukee Admirals lost 3-1 on the road against the San Antonio Rampage at the AT&T Center on Sunday afternoon.

There is a lot that comes to an end with this game. The Admirals four-game winning streak is snapped and done so at the hands of the Rampage who they had defeated nine-games consecutively. It is the first time since the start of the 2012-13 season that the Rampage have defeated the Admirals in regulation.

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Game Recaps

Power Surge; Admirals Beat Rampage 4-1
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The Milwaukee Admirals won 4-1 on the road against the San Antonio Rampage at the AT&T Center on Friday night.

Juuse Saros and the Admirals were less than three-minutes away from securing consecutive shutouts. In the end they settle with an Admirals power-play that struck three times to help see them earn their fourth straight win. The Admirals have now won nine-straight games against the Rampage including five-straight games in San Antonio.

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Scouting

Rampage: Scouting the Enemy
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The Milwaukee Admirals are currently riding a three-game winning streak. We haven’t had the chance to say something like that since they started off the 2017-18 season winning the first four games. It has been a slow process but one that the entire Central Division outside of the Manitoba Moose seem to have endured along the way so far. The Admirals are now in second place of the division behind the Moose as they embark on a three-game road trip. Can this momentum be carried into the first Texas swing of the season?

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Chatterbox

Chatterbox, Vol. 243
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Did the Milwaukee Admirals go out and thrash the team with the lowest record in the AHL last night? No. Was it the best performance of the season? No, not really. What the Admirals did in their 1-0 shutout victory of the Cleveland Monsters wasn’t anything special. It was just good hard work from everybody involved. It often feels like the more simplified the Admirals can play the better the results are. Last night showed some rewards for good structured defensive play. And, hey, the Admirals are now on a winning streak beyond two games for the first time since the opening four games of the season. Things are beginning to slowly click.

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Scouting

Monsters: Scouting the Enemy
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Well, would you look at that. The Milwaukee Admirals are currently working on a winning streak. Yeah, they’ve won back-to-back games via the shootout – but they’ve taken 4 points. It hasn’t been easy this season for the Admirals to sustain positive flows of momentum from one game into the next. By no means over the last few weeks have the Admirals played their best game of hockey but piece by piece they are showing flashes of the high caliber team that they can be. With a team in the Cleveland Monsters arriving to town with the worst record in the entire league it might be time for the Admirals to show more than a flash.

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Game Recaps

Shootout Kings; Admirals Win 5-4 in Rockford
(Photo Credit: Todd Reicher)

The Milwaukee Admirals won 5-4 in a shootout on the road against the Rockford IceHogs at the BMO Harris Bank Center on Sunday evening.

It’s becoming a regular occurrence for the Admirals to play beyond regulation. For the second consecutive game the Admirals pick up a win in the shootout. They have won all five games played in the shootout this season.

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