If you approached an AHL expert prior to the beginning of last season’s Calder Cup playoffs and said that the Providence Bruins would make a run all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals as the Atlantic Division’s fourth-seed – defeating Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Hershey along the way – you would most likely have been called a lunatic. But that’s exactly what occurred.
Despite being on the brink of elimination in both series, the P-Bruins rallied past both WBS and Hershey in five and seven games, respectively, before watching their magic vanish in the conference finals in five games to the Syracuse Crunch.