No Stanley Cup champion yet. But in the Coast, Allen wins its second Kelly Cup in a row, taking both the series and tonight’s Game 6 by the same 4-2 mark. That’s a title for Dyson Stevenson, Chad Costello (the playoff MVP), Justin Courtnall and Riley Gill.
The band’s back together in Binghamton: Kurt Kleinendorst returns to the Senators, with whom he and Steve Stirling won the Calder Cup in 2011.
| TEAM | Old | New |
| BIN | Luke Richardson (4/18) | Kurt Kleinendorst (6/8) |
| MTB | Keith McCambridge (4/22) | Pascal Vincent (5/27) |
| SA | Dean Chynoweth (4/26) | — |
| CHA | Mark Morris (5/3, St. Lawrence) | Ulf Samuelsson (5/31) |
| SYR | Rob Zettler (5/10) | Benoit Groulx (5/10) |
| ROC | Randy Cunneyworth (5/16) | Dan Lambert (5/16) |
| PVD | Bruce Cassidy (5/24, BOS ass’t) | — |
| TUC-s | Ron Rolston (5/24) | — |
| SPR-s | Scott Allen (FLA ass’t, 5/30) | Geordie Kinnear (6/7) |
| CHI | John Anderson (6/2, MIN ass’t) | — |
s-Tucson being the old Springfield; Springfield being the old Portland.
Aaron Portzline on what Lake Erie’s success means to Columbus, with comparisons to Tampa Bay’s Norfolk/Syracuse teams of a few years ago.
And Aaron a few weeks ago wrote about Phil Simon and what he means to the Monsters and the hockey family in Cleveland. Lake Erie announced today that Phil died Thursday. RIP.