It ’tis the season where we take a step back and check in on a good few former Milwaukee Admirals players. As we can often find ourselves in our own organizational bubble, myself included, it can be a bit of surprise to see how well or now well so many of these players have been performing. Let’s check in on last year’s departures and a good handful of others.
The Milwaukee Admirals lost 4-2 on the road against the Chicago Wolves at the Allstate Arena on Sunday evening.
Despite getting out in front first, and having a tremendous effort in net today by Jake Paterson, the Wolves would do just enough to fend off the Admirals today. The win is the fifth straight for the Wolves and the Admirals end the three-in-three weekend on a slightly sour note.
The Milwaukee Admirals and Chicago Wolves are both set to complete a three-in-three weekend this afternoon. The Admirals lost 3-2 in overtime on Friday night at home against the Iowa Wild but earned a 2-1 overtime win last night on the road against the Grand Rapids Griffins. The Wolves meanwhile are coming off of back-to-back 6-3 victories defeating the Griffins on the road Friday and then the Wild on home ice Saturday. I suppose it makes sense that the best of the weekend series face each other on Sunday and hopefully the third place game between the WIld and Griffins will be played at a later date.
Jokes aside, there is something really exciting about today’s game. The Milwaukee Admirals and Chicago Wolves contest will be broadcasting on the NHL Network at 3:00 PM CST. So, for those who don’t get the opportunity to see the Admirals play on the road or at all, this is a great chance to do so and in a game that could be rather good.
The Milwaukee Admirals won 2-1 in overtime on the road against the Grand Rapids Griffins at the Van Andel Arena on Saturday night.
This may not exactly have been the most electric or offensive of games to sit back and watch but this may have been the performance the Admirals have needed. They stayed composed defensively and managed to get the overtime win in a building that has so often caused them troubles.
After a week’s rest, some key roster additions or returns from injury, and two solid days of practice I had raised my expectations for what the Milwaukee Admirals were going to look like on home ice against the Iowa Wild. They were getting sharper. They looked faster. And the opening ten-minutes played last night backed up those expectations. It was a fast, crisp, and energetic start. Then the Wild scored a controversial goal and the rest went as flat as it has been the last month or more.
The Milwaukee Admirals very first three-in-three weekend of the 2017-18 is upon us. It arrives at a unique point in time. The Admirals are in an up-and-down funk and have been in that rut since the start of November where they’ve gone 7-9-1-0. They are 1-3-1-0 in the month of December. And the Admirals only have a single win in regulation in their last four wins. Who was it they defeated in regulation last? The Iowa Wild – who set the table for the Admirals this weekend in an attempt to right the ship.
The Milwaukee Admirals were at it once again at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena this morning. Today is the last proper practice ahead of the team’s first three-in-three weekend of the season that starts with their final home game ahead of the Christmas break.
The Milwaukee Admirals returned to practice today at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena after splitting their weekend road trip against the Manitoba Moose. The Admirals are setting up for their first three-in-three weekend of the season which starts Friday night on home ice against the Iowa Wild. What follows is the first of a four-game road trip with the Grand Rapids Griffins on Saturday night, Chicago Wolves on Sunday afternoon, and then resuming the following weekend at the Quicken Loans Arena against the Cleveland Monsters.
When pulling back from a distance and reviewing this past weekend for the Milwaukee Admirals it’s hard to put a finger on where the team is right now. They traveled up North and played against one of the hottest teams in the AHL currently, the Manitoba Moose, and expectations following a lackluster 5-2 defeat on home ice against the not hottest team in the AHL, the San Diego Gulls, made things feel bleak. And then Saturday happens.
The Admirals started out with a poor opening period but they managed to rally back from down 3-1 and earn a victory over the Moose in a shootout. It was gritty. It was a gusty effort from numerous individuals. To accomplish that battle back on a team as good as the Moose and end their nine-game winning streak seemed like the sort of result that could change the tide. It appeared to follow into the opening period of the Sunday clash. It then sharply collapsed until the Moose had themselves a 6-1 win.
These were two games with two completely different outcomes and two entirely different impressions left once the game came to a crashing halt. It was as though we all received a microcosm of what the Admirals have been doing in the 2017-18 season. No one good result appears to be followed up by another and another. In fact, having one good period followed up by another tends to be a stretch. Is this bipolar stretch of hot and could simply an AHL standard of a young team getting on the same page all at once or is this really just a now expected norm from now until the season ends? The longer things drag on such as this the more it seems the Admirals are sort of stuck in this place.
The Milwaukee Admirals fell 6-1 on the road against the Manitoba Moose at the Bell MTS Place on Sunday afternoon.
After the first period there were plenty of reasons to feel optimistic for the Admirals. They earned a 1-0 lead from Tyler Kelleher. Juuse Saros was terrific. And then the second period started and the Moose would proceed to outshoot the Admirals 43-33 and score six unanswered goals. It was rough. It has been rough. This game summed up the best of the worst for the Admirals as of late.
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