With the end of the regular season in sight, Milwaukee is still chasing a playoff position that affords them a bye past the play-in round. Thanks to a five-point (2g-3a) week from Cody Glass and some solid goaltending from both Connor Ingram and Devin Cooley, the Admirals’ magic number to clinch is down to five with six games to go.
Chicago and Manitoba have clinched their playoff spots and effectively locked up seeds one and two in the division, but Rockford trails Milwaukee in third place by just eight percentage points. In the AHL’s new playoff format, 23 teams will make the post-season (all but the bottom two teams in each division); in the Central Division, seeds #4 and #5 will play a best-of-three series, and the winner will move on to a best-of-five round against the #1 seed while seeds #2 and #3 face each other.