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...
The Allen Americans hosted the Corpus Christi IceRays at the Allen Event Center on Saturday night, in the second game of a “home-and-home” series. On Friday night, the Americans went down to South Texas and got a gritty win on the road, 2-1. By the end of the game, the attitude on the ice...
Before the Allen Americans called to offer him a contract on Thursday afternoon, Mike Willemsen was sitting on his couch, trying to figure out where his hockey career would take him next. Later that evening, in an Americans uniform, Willemsen scored the first three goals of his professional career – a hat trick –...
The Allen Americans have done the difficult job of winning on the road several times this season. When they opened up their home schedule on Saturday against the Corpus Christi IceRays, they were hoping to continue that trend in their new home. The IceRays had different plans, and handed the Americans just their second...
Tonight (as with many of the Allen Americans home games), Big D Hockey will be present and tweeting live from the game. We’ll have in-game commentary and reactions (as well as other Texas CHL scores when I can provide them). Join us over at the twitter feed for lots of fun hockey discussion and...
The Nashville Predators were reeling a bit coming into last night’s game against the Stars. The Predators had lost two games in a row; the last, a punishing loss to Edmonton, 6-1. So, I was optimistic for the Stars to finally get a home win for this season. Nashville had denied the Stars that win...
The Allen Americans hosted their first game at the Allen Events Center last night, inviting media to come see the squad face the reigning champs, the Texas Brahmas. The Brahmas’ strong play in the second period gave them a large enough lead to withstand the Americans’ comeback attempt in the third, and Texas came...
