We’re into the All-Star Week stretch. The Milwaukee Admirals are in action tonight and on Saturday night at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. Those are the last games ahead of the 2018 AHL All-Star festivities kick-off in Utica, New York on Sunday night with the Skills Competition and then on Monday night for the All-Star Challenge. The Admirals will be represented by Anders Lindbäck and Emil Pettersson it Utica. But, firstly, they’ll need to handle the Cleveland Monsters and Ontario Reign. The time to get back to winning ways after a lull begins now.

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You know what can be just as rough as the Milwaukee Admirals losing 5-2 to the Grand Rapids Griffins in front of an Admirals record 9,444 fans at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena? Well, traveling nearly six hours on a bus from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Des Moines, Iowa immediately afterwards. That is an extremely specific example but oddly accurate. The Admirals and Iowa Wild are both looking to hit the reset button after rough Friday night games. The first period is going to be important for both.

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At this point numbers are unnecessary. Milwaukee Admirals fandom kind of understands when they see the Grand Rapids Griffins on the schedule that things are either going to be tight of not downright rough. That’s true at any venue. It’s especially true at the Van Andel Arena. These two are set to play in Grand Rapids tonight and then on a Concert Night in Milwaukee this Friday. Buckle up.

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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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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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The Milwaukee Admirals needed a shootout on Friday night to defeat the Iowa Wild. They thankfully had a chance to get some energy back yesterday before playing on the road this evening. The Rockford IceHogs haven’t had that ability to recharge. They’re finishing the last of a three-in-three and are looking to win consecutively at the BMO Harris Bank Center. The Admirals had an upswing Friday night. Can it -for once- be sustained?

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The Milwaukee Admirals up and down run this season suffered a down on Wednesday night. The Admirals lost 4-2 against the Grand Rapids Griffins to see their five-game point streak come to an end. That run started well enough, with the Admirals first back-to-back regulation wins since they started the season on a four-game winning streak, but it was followed with three games that went beyond regulation. It ended with a rough “shoot self in foot” outing Wednesday. Focus now shifts to finding an “up” before the Admirals can figure out a way of maintaining a positive run of form.

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New Year’s Eve. What a better way to celebrate the end of 2017 than by having the Milwaukee Admirals play against the Grand Rapids Griffins at the Van Andel Arena? It has been one of the best rivalries within the Central Division and sees both teams looking to carry momentum over into 2018. The Admirals won in a shootout over the Chicago Wolves on Friday night. The Griffins are looking to sweep a three-in-three weekend after they plopped down 10 goals in 2 games against the Cleveland Monsters on Friday and Saturday. This should be another scrappy and tight Admirals game running with the theme of this week.

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Firstly, I hope all had a Merry Christmas and had a lovely time with family and friends! Secondly, these guys again. The Chicago Wolves started their 2017-18 season rather poorly with a lot of varying pieces across their lineup. They’re the Vegas Golden Knights’ AHL affiliate. They still have a slight working agreement with the St. Louis Blues who have no dedicated AHL affiliate this season. And then their own AHL contracted players. It took time to get going but they are now. They arrive out of the AHL Christmas break on a seven-game point streak.

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It hasn’t been the greatest of times for the Milwaukee Admirals. In fact, it actually feels like where this up-down run started to really trend for the worse was in this weekend’s fixture: road games against the Cleveland Monsters. The Admirals lost both games at the Quicken Loans Arena a month ago and have gone 5-7-2-0 since they first met the Monsters while only earning a single win in regulation. The Admirals don’t need a Christmas miracle here. They just need to follow up what worked well last weekend and go to work.

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