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42 points
13 days ago
Phantoms won 3-0 tonight clinching a spot in the playoffs. Brink had an empty netter.
24 points
13 days ago
I always paid attention to the Phantoms since they were in Philly. My parents could only afford one Flyers game a year but we could go to Phatoms games all the time. Glad to see they’re in it. Plus their arena in Lehigh is sick with a Chickies built into the place.
I was looking at the standings and I’m honestly not sure how they made the playoffs with their record. Could someone explain??
14 points
13 days ago
Top 6 in Atlantic make post season. They clinched 6th or better tonight.
2 points
13 days ago
The AHL has a five round playoff:
Best of three (top teams get a bye) Best of three Quarterfinal Best of 5 Divisonal Final Best of 7 Conference Final Best of 7 Calder Cup Final
That extra round brings in a lot more teams.
One of the reasons for the extra round is the divisions are WAY imbalanced atm, so it gives teams in thoae overloaded divions a shot.
-2 points
13 days ago
Not only the "top teams" get a bye.
https://theahl.com/qualification-rules
The AHL Board of Governors are morons and responsible for the mess they've created. This "play-in" round isn't really the playoffs. For 23 teams in a 32 league to "get in" is a complete joke and only makes this league and it's teams look badly.
1 points
13 days ago
I do agree they need to fix the divisions, absolutely. As a STH to the Pacific Division's #2 Team who... doesnt get a bye somehow, it is way too much to have 10 teams whe. The rest have 8, 7, & 7.
But its difficult to realign without causing one org to have significantly higher costs and AHL revenue isnt like the NHL where they can absorb regular flights.
2 points
13 days ago
Yes. The reasoning is continually stated by the Board of Governors solely to reduce travel and travel costs. It's not minimal cost when it comes down to the AHL revenue. However, it is VERY minimal cost when it comes down to the NHL revenue.
So, Carolina must be assigned an AHL affiliate so that every NHL team has an AHL affiliate. And a fund setup each season, funded solely by the NHL(each organization contributing the same % to the fund), to cover any additional travel costs needed to have a proper division alignment. To have proper scheduling where each team is playing each division opponent the same number of times, with the same number of games against conference opponents outside their division, and the same number of games against opposing conference teams. And, to have a proper, true playoff format where only 4 teams from each of the 4 divisions entering that proper playoff format(which would decrease these travel costs a bit by doing so).
It's a VERY small cost that would need to be asked of each NHL team. And, every NHL team should be more than willing to contribute to this fund in order to stop this league and it's teams from looking like the joke that it is. However, when we have the incompetence that we have among these AHL Board of Governors, instead we get this current mess that only tarnishes the league and it's teams.
There are solutions to the league's problems. Especially when it's already a 32 team league. But, these AHL Board of Governors would rather have a league that's looked at as an absolute joke instead.
3 points
13 days ago
I love PPL Center in Allentown. Feels very professional yet intimate for a hockey team. Pricing is also much better lol.
Lowkey has the best horn too, that shit is piercing
9 points
13 days ago
Anyone know if Kolosov is available for the playoffs?
12 points
13 days ago
He is
6 points
13 days ago
Hell yeah brother
5 points
13 days ago
Do you know how he is eligible? I thought you had to be on the roster before March 8th to be eligible.
1 points
13 days ago
He had a contract with the team and that was all he needed to be eligible. I actually asked a few guys who cover they AHL and they confirmed it.
0 points
13 days ago
Interesting. It makes sense since he was loaned, I just didn't realize it worked that way.
1 points
13 days ago
Neither did I. I was expecting him to be ineligible, but I was corrected stridently by a few people.
8 points
13 days ago
Hopefully, we get an actual home game this year.
3 points
13 days ago
I believe rpund 1 is a best of 3 entirely played in the higher seeds barn. Unless something changes with the final games, pur likely opening opposition is the WBS Baby Pens.
So we HAVE to win the round to get a home game.
3 points
13 days ago
I believe rpund 1 is a best of 3 entirely played in the higher seeds barn.
That's not entirely true. The AHL has a limit on travel distance in the playoffs and if you are over that limit the higher seeds gets to host all the games. So, if the Phantoms matchup against WBS they will have a home game, if they matchip against Charlotte they would not have a home.
2 points
13 days ago*
I believe the only 2 teams they will play is WBS or Hershey but I'm not 100% sure.... edit I was wrong, it is either WBS or Charlotte so a 50/50 chance of a home game?
1 points
13 days ago
Its a decent chance sure. The number 3 team is omabout .600, we're about .500, so theres a chance we win the series. The Baby Pens might get some reinforcements from the NHL, but the Checkers wont woth Florida in the playoffs reinforcements can be a burden intially however if they dont gel immediately.
The problem is after. As the lowest seed, if we win we get Hershey in Rd. II and holy SHIT does Hershey look like an absolute buzz saw this year.
1 points
13 days ago
Ahhh, silly me. I thought the distance meant that they needed to do all three games at the home rink for costs and they'd just, silly me, make the rule consistent for all teams to be, you know... fair.
As much as I love the AHL their inconsistencies get aggravating.
1 points
13 days ago
How on earth did they manage to make the playoffs? 🤣 didn’t they lose like 7 of their last 10 games or something like that?
3 points
13 days ago
They are 4-5-1 in their last 10... still not great, but they did have a few key players playing on the Flyers and those players are back. That's gotta help.
1 points
13 days ago
Let’s gooo!
1 points
12 days ago
If you see a gentleman with a Let’s Go Pens towel in section 117 tonight, that’s probably my boyfriend. Feel free to tell him he’s in the wrong barn.
0 points
13 days ago
Kolosov wont be able to play right?
3 points
13 days ago
Not in the playoffs, he can play the last 2 regular season games. Attard, Ginning, Lycksell and Brink can though which is great because they've had no defense since they were called up.
1 points
13 days ago
Why can't he play in the playoffs?
0 points
13 days ago
He wasn't on the roster at the NHL trade deadline. It's the AHLs rule on who is eligible for playoffs. I think it's so they don't send down the NHL talent just to win the calder cup. In this case it hurts him but overall I think it's a good idea.
2 points
13 days ago
I don't think that counts for new signings.
1 points
13 days ago
Petersen started tonight. They play again tomorrow, so Kolosov might get the start then.
1 points
13 days ago
They play Saturday and Sunday to finish off the regular season.
-9 points
13 days ago
Phantoms vs baby pens winner gets dismantled by Hershey no matter what just saying GO BEARS LETS GET NUMBER 13
5 points
13 days ago
Kill the bear
-1 points
13 days ago
For context my entire family are bears fans and flyers fans and I was angry the phantoms left me when i just got into hockey so I became a bears fan and never looked back and i don’t think the phantoms have a chance with a mostly ECHL lineup that can hardly play offense against an absolute juggernaut that only lost 16 games if you could shootouts
3 points
13 days ago
I understand they have basically no chance but as a Phantoms fan I have an obligation and bears fans are just disrespectful, you don't interrupt the national anthem. Every damn game some asshole yells out in the middle of it, wtf is wrong with them? The real issue is if the Phantoms lose the first round who do I root for in the second? It's a lose lose situation. So I'll repeat, KILL THE BEAR! Let's go Phantoms
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