GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The hottest team in the AHL’s Western Conference continued its climb up the Central Division standings on Wednesday, as the Grand Rapids Griffins improved to 9-2-0-2 in their last 13 games with a 5-2 victory over the Chicago Wolves at Van Andel Arena.
Turner Elson and Matt Puempel each scored twice while Harri Sateri played perhaps the best game of his nascent Griffins tenure and finished with 33 saves, nine of which were made in the first 10 minutes of the third period when the ice was tilted toward his net and his team nursed a two-goal lead.