SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League released the Eastern and Western Conference Playoff schedules for the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs.
For the first time since 2015, four regular-season champions reached the conference finals.
I Eastern Conference Finals will have two of the highest markets in the American Hockey League, as The Hershey Bears (chief executive officer of the NHL's Washington Capitals) takes The Cleveland Monsters (chief executive officer of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets).
The city of Cleveland was a member of the AHL in 1936, and Hershey joined the league in 1938. This will be the 14th time the cities have faced each other in a Calder Cup Playoff series, the first since the Monsters. beat the Bears in the 2016 finals.
Hershey, the defending Calder Cup champion, is in the AHL's final four for the seventh time since becoming a Capitals franchise in 2005; the Bears are 6-0 in the conference finals during that time.
The best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals continues Thursday night at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa.
A1-Hershey Bears vs. N1-Cleveland Monsters
Game 1 – Thursday, May 30 – Cleveland at Hershey, 7:00
Game 2 – Sat., June 1 – Cleveland at Hershey, 7:00
Game 3 – Tue., June 4 – Hershey at Cleveland, 7:00
Game 4 – Thursday, June 6 – Hershey at Cleveland, 7:00
*Game 5 – Sat., June 8 – Hershey at Cleveland, 7:00
*Game 6 – Mon., June 10 – Cleveland at Hershey, 7:00
*Game 7 – Wed., June 12 – Cleveland at Hershey, 7:00
*if necessary… All times in Mpumalanga
I Western Conference Finals it will be a repeat of last year's series, which is in it Coachella Valley Firebirds (the top organization of the NHL's Seattle Kraken) and the Milwaukee Admirals (chief executive officer of the NHL's Nashville Predators).
The Firebirds defeated the Admirals, four games to two, to win the conference championship in 2023. Coachella Valley is the first AHL team to reach the league semifinals in its first two seasons in the league since the Houston Eros in 2002 and 2003. .
The Admirals are making their fourth appearance in the Western Conference Finals. Before losing last year, they won the Calder Cup in 2004 and returned to the finals in 2006.
Game 1 of the series is scheduled for Wednesday night at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif.
P1-Coachella Valley Firebirds vs. C1-Milwaukee Admirals
Game 1 – Wed., May 29 – Milwaukee at Coachella Valley, 10:00
Game 2 – Friday, May 31 – Milwaukee at Coachella Valley, 10:00
Game 3 – Tue., June 4 – Coachella Valley at Milwaukee, 8:00
Game 4 – Thursday, June 6 – Coachella Valley at Milwaukee, 8:00 p.m
*Game 5 – Sat., June 8 – Coachella Valley at Milwaukee, 7:00
*Game 6 – Mon., June 10 – Milwaukee at Coachella Valley, 10:00
*Game 7 – Wed., June 12 – Milwaukee at Coachella Valley, 10:00
*if necessary… All times in Mpumalanga
All Calder Cup Playoff games will be broadcast live AHLTV.
Active since 1936, the American Hockey League continues to serve as the top development league for all 32 National Hockey League teams. Nearly 90 percent of all players competing in the NHL are AHL graduates, and over the years the American Hockey League has been home to more than 100 honorary members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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