Foto: X Hershey Bears
On the same day as the NHL, the farm AHL also recognized the champion of the 2023/24 season. Just like last year, the Hershey hockey players won the Calder Cup, defeating the Coachella Valley team 4-2 in the finals.
The same final composition as a year ago, when Washington’s reserve team needed seven games to triumph.
Strome scored the thirteenth triumph, Dubé shone with a hat trick
Six were enough for him this year. Canadian forward Matt Strome decided to win the title in 61:06. Pierrick Dubé also made a significant contribution to the 5:4 victory in extra time, the French forward scored a hat trick.
Hendrix Lapierre became the most productive player of the elimination fights with 22 points. The Canadian center scored seven goals, added 15 assists in 20 games and collected the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy for the playoffs’ most valuable player.
The Bears have won the AHL trophy for the thirteenth time, making them the all-time best team in the competition. They also won the Calder Cup in 1947, 1958, 1959, 1969, 1974, 1980, 1988, 1997, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2023.
The defeated Coachella Valley hockey players have already reached two finals since entering the AHL the year before last. The goalkeeper also helped them this season
Ales Stezka
goalkeeper, 27 years old
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The 27-year-old Stezka signed with Seattle last year after two great seasons in Vítkovice, but he didn’t get a chance in the best league in the world and only played 27 games in the regular season on the farm with an average of 2.48 goals conceded per game and a save success rate of 91.4 percent.
Now his contract with the Krakens ends and after a year he should return to the extra league. Not to the Ostrava club, but to Kometa. “For the goalkeepers, we are about to announce one big reinforcement,” said Brno boss Libor Zábranský recently.
2024-06-26 08:32:00
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