WINNIPEG, Mb – The Manitoba Moose could not have picked a better time to start a winning streak in the AHL playoffs. The Moose are now riding a 10 game postseason streak which is only two games from tying the record of 12 consecutive games set by the 1988 Hershey Bears.
If the Moose can hold on and knock out Houston it will be the first time since 1979 a pro hockey team from Winnipeg has made it to the finals since the World Hockey Association’s Winnipeg Jets defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4 games to 2 games in the 1979 Avco Cup finals.
As the old saying goes records are made to be broken. Here are some AHL Calder Cup playoff records that still stand which may or may never be broken.
Most Consecutive Championships Won – 3 Springfield Indians – 1960-61-62
Most Playoffs Championships Won – 9 Cleveland Barons Hershey Bears
Most Consecutive Times in Playoffs – 24 Cleveland Barons, 1941-64
Most Times in Finals – 20 Hershey Bears
Most Times Losing in Finals – 11 Hershey Bears
Most Consecutive Times in Finals – 4 Rochester Americans, 1965-66-67-68
Most Consecutive Games Won, One Playoff – 12 Hershey Bears, 1988
Most Games Lost, One Playoff – 12 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, 2004
Highest Scoring Shutout – 10-0 Buffalo vs. Hershey – Mar. 24, 1943 (Semifinals) Richmond vs. Baltimore – April 6, 1974 (Quarterfinals)
AHL Playoff tidbits
On three occasions an AHL club has won the Calder Cup and its NHL affiliate also won the Stanley Cup. In both 1976 and 1977 the Montreal Canadiens and affiliates Nova Scotia Voyageurs won both trophies. In 1995, the New Jersey Devils and Albany River Rats achieved the same feat.
The Calder Cup is the world’s second oldest (after the NHL’s Stanley Cup) continuous professional ice hockey championship, having first been awarded in 1937 following the 1936-37 AHL season, and continuously being awarded every year.
Twenty-seven members of the Hockey Hall of Fame have won the Calder Cup in their careers, including Johnny Bower, Terry Sawchuk, Emile Francis, Gerry Cheevers, Al Arbour, Andy Bathgate, Larry Robinson, Doug Harvey and Patrick Roy.
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