The Texas Stars announced that right wing Mathieu Beaudoin was named the AHL Player of the Week for last week. Beaudoin had five goals in three games, and was a big part of the T-Stars success last week, as the team was 3-0 on the road. Also up for consideration were Houston Aeros right wing…
The Allen Americans hadn’t played a game in five days – their last was against the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees on Sunday, November 29th – but they showed no sign of it on Friday. The Americans once again faced the Bees, and once again came out the victors, defeating them 5-2 at the Allen…
The Central Hockey League announced today that Laredo Bucks goaltender Jean-Philippe Levasseur was the recipient of the Sher-Wood/TPS Central Hockey League Goaltender of the Month award. Levasseur had a fantastic month in November – in 8 games, he was in net for only one regulation loss, racking up a 6-1-1 record. The league put out…
It’s a busy day for news today! Here’s some roster news out of Laredo – the Bucks have signed forward Curtis Billsten, and also announced that Lance Monych has been placed on the 14-day IR. Please read the following press release: *** LAREDO, TX- The Laredo Bucks of the Central Hockey League announced Tuesday that…
This is a little late notice to give people, but I’ve been meaning to mention this for a couple of days, and I forgot. There’s a great Q&A session with Allen Americans head coach Dwight Mullins tonight, if you live in the DFW area. I can tell you that coach Mullins is really great at…
The CHL announced that CHL-TV is offering a free game to anyone who would like to watch one this Friday, December 4, 2009. Hopefully you will all get a chance to give it a watch. Drop me a line via twitter if you do, and let me know what you think about it. Read on…
The CHL announced that Justin Bowers of the Allen Americans and Andy Franck of the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees were the player and goaltender of the week (respectively). Here is the league press release on the announcement: *** (Tempe, Arizona) – The Central Hockey League announced today that the recipients for the Oakley Central…
The Allen Americans added another page to the growing rivalry with their cross-town foes, the Texas Brahmas, on Saturday night. In a physical, emotionally-fueled game, the teams had to go to the overtime frame and then the shootout to determine the winner. The Americans struck hard and fast, netting three in the shootout, and took…
They’d practiced the play a hundred times, and worked on it as recently as that morning. When Derek Landmesser, a defenseman for the Mississippi RiverKings, shot the puck around the boards in the third period, Allen Americans goalie Chris Whitley went out to cut off the puck. Whitley expected to stop the puck and set…
The Central Hockey League handed out their weekly ‘Player of the Week’ and ‘Goaltender of the Week’ awards today, and both awards went to players on Texas-based CHL teams. Rio Grande Valley’s Grant Goeckner-Zoeller won the Player of the Week honor, while Allen’s Chris Whitley picked up the ‘Goaltender of the Week’. Goeckner-Zoeller averaged two…
