Despite the inability to protect their leads for very long, my Stars are on their way to the AHL Championship, aka the Calder Cup! Pretty damned awesome for a team that’s only nine seasons old. I can’t immediately think of any AHL franchise achieving this three times in such a brief period of time. An NHL team, I can but why it’s a big deal with the AHL is the league’s nature, it’s a development league so the talent is mostly younger and rosters differ greatly every season.
Toronto will be a tough opponent. They’ve plowed through the other Eastern teams with relative ease, they swept my Phantoms to get here. They’re somewhat of a nemesis too because, they gave us the most grief in our 2014 run. Once we eliminated them, defeating the St. John’s Icecaps (no longer around, they went back to Winnipeg) was a breeze.
Cup games begin Saturday, June 2! They play games three and four in Austin (technical Cedar Park or as I call it, North Reaganstan) next week, June 5 and 7.
Go Stars! Let’s win this and end Travis Morin’s time with us on a high note!