Last night the Chicago Wolves got the job done right, played 60 minutes of disciplined hard hitting hockey and were rewarded with a progression to the semifinals of the Calder Cup run. They will face the Toronto Marlies on Friday at the Allstate in a 2-2-2-1 series. It was a pity that the Ice Hogs had to be defeated for this to happen, the western division is arrogant enough to imagine that they are the toughest division in the AHL and the winners often go on to take the cup. It was the first year of AHL competition for the Rockford Ice Hogs and to add the Calder Cup banner to the last years UHL Colonial Cup banner in the Metro’s rafters would have been sweet. But it was not to be for the upstarts from the west. As the Wolves start on the next leg of competition they can look back on a hard fought series that prepared them for the Marlies of the frozen north.
Bring on the next level!
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