The AHL playoffs have been underway for nearly a week with the league’s new best-of-three “play-in” round on display. By finishing the year third in the Central Division, the Milwaukee Admirals secured a bye past that round to the division semifinals where they’ll take on the Manitoba Moose in a best-of-five series beginning tonight.
Just two members of the team remain from the Admirals’ last playoff action in the 2018-19 season (Cole Schneider and Matt Donovan), and they’ll be critical in leading this squad against a Manitoba team that they went 5-5-2 against during the regular season.
Last December—when they were dead last in the AHL—this isn’t exactly where many thought the Admirals would end up, but now they have a shot to make some noise in a division that boasts one of the Calder Cup favorites in the Chicago Wolves.