AHL postseason, baby.
It is Wednesday, my dudes.
While the NHL Bruins are wistfully watching the playoffs from home, all is not lost in the organization: the Providence Bruins managed to make the postseason this year!
The P-Bruins will begin their Calder Cup Playoffs journey tonight, kicking off an all-Massachusetts series against the Springfield Thunderbirds, who are the AHL affiliate of the St. Louis Blues.
For those unfamiliar, the first round of the AHL playoffs uses of a best-of-3 format, leaving very, very, very little room for error.
The P-Bruins are the higher seed, so they’ll get home-ice advantage. The schedule:
- April 23 vs. Springfield, 7:05 PM
- April 25 @ Springfield, 7:05 PM
- April 27 vs. Springfield, 3:05 PM
All games will be broadcast online via FloHockey, which costs $30 a month unless you pay for a year in advance.
For the big club, there may be some intrigue today as well, with the end-of-season leadership media availability slated for this morning.
Charlie Jacobs, Cam Neely, and Don Sweeney will all meet the media at 10:30, and there’s obviously plenty to cover.
We’ve already seen the (kind of) canned statement from Jacobs, so it seems unlikely that we get anything really groundbreaking today, but it’ll be awkward to see Jacobs asked “hey, are you going to fire these guys” while they’re seated next to him.
Good times.
I’m putting this together prior to the end of Tuesday night’s playoff action so I can’t tell you what happened, but there’s a three-game schedule tonight:
- Montreal @ Washington, Game 2
- Dallas @ Colorado, Game 3
- Edmonton @ Los Angeles, Game 2
Most of the series have been pretty entertaining thus far, aside from Carolina looking they’re ready to skate right past New Jersey.
Anyways, what’s on tap for today?