The Grand Rapids Griffins won their second-ever
Calder Cup, and first-ever at home, with Tuesday night’s 4-3 win over the Syracuse
Crunch in Game 6 at Van Andel Arena in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Griffins claimed their first American Hockey League
championship in 2013, by also defeating the Crunch in six games, with the deciding
contest that year held in Syracuse. Grand Rapids, the AHL affiliate of the NHL’s
Detroit Red Wings, won 15 of 19 games during the 2017 postseason, ousting Milwaukee,
Chicago and San Jose before doing likewise to Syracuse.
Ben Street (Wisconsin) of the Griffins was second on
the squad, and fourth in the league, with 21 points during the playoffs. Jared Coureau
(Northern Michigan) was in net for all of Grand Rapids’s postseason games,
going 15-4-0 with a 2.89 goals-against average in 19 contests.
Syracuse forward Cory Conacher (Canisius) led all scorers
during the Calder Cup Playoffs with 12 goals and 28 points. Mike McKenna (St. Lawrence)
finished with a 13-9 record and a 2.68 goals-against average in 22 playoff appearances,
while Matt Taormina (Providence) paced all league defensemen with 15 assists
and 20 points.
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