David Backes scored twice and the Peoria Rivermenrelied exclusively on special-teams in a 4-2 win over the HamiltonBulldogs on Saturday in the American Hockey League. Backes had power-play goals in each of the first two periodswhile Mike Glumac adde ...

Rookie goalie Adam Dennis made 54 saves to leadthe Rochester Americans to their sixth consecutive win to open theAmerican Hockey League season, nipping the host Toronto Marlies 3-1on Saturday night. Left winger Dylan Hunter and right wingers Drew St ...

Brad Leeb scored twice and added an assist to leadthe Toronto Marlies to a 5-4 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs onFriday night in the American Hockey League. Leeb opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal 3:09 into thegame and added a power-play goal ...

Scott Reid made 24 saves for his first careerAmerican Hockey League shutout as the Milwaukee Admirals blanked theManitoba Moose 2-0 Friday night. Reid helped fight off five Manitoba power plays while Paul Brownand Rich Peverley, with an empty-netter ...

Mikael Tellqvist's first American League game in more than a year did not end as he or the Toronto Marlies had hoped. Sent down to the Marlies on a conditioning stint earlier in the day, Tellqvist made 29 saves but could not hold back the defending A ...

Keith Aucoin scored two goals to lead theAlbany River Rats to a 3-2 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs inAmerican Hockey League action Saturday. The River Rats (2-1-0-0) opened the scoring on the power play at5:46 of the first period when Scott Kelman s ...

Toronto Marlies goalie Jean-Francois Racine didn'tmince words after giving up a couple of soft goals against the GrandRapids Griffins Friday. ``I'll take the blame for the loss,'' he said following a 4-2American Hockey League defeat in front of 3,10 ...

With right-winger Nikolai Zherdev set toreturn, the Columbus Blue Jackets assigned centre Geoff Platt to theSyracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League on Sunday. Zherdev is expected to make his regular season debut against thePhoenix Coyotes on M ...

Jason Jaffray scored two goals to lead theManitoba Moose over the Toronto Marlies 5-2 in American HockeyLeague action Saturday. Jesse Schultz, Jannik Hansen and Brad Moran also scored for theMoose (1-1-1-0), who took a three-goal lead in the first p ...

The Vancouver Canucks assigned backup goaltenderWade Flaherty to the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League onFriday. Flaherty didn't see any action in the Canucks' season-opening 3-1win over Detroit on Thursday. The 38-year-old spent the majo ...