This postseason marks the first time in the AHL’s four-division era that the final eight teams in the Calder Cup Playoffs comprised four first-place teams and four second-place teams.

Hershey, Milwaukee and Colorado won their respective division titles by just two points. Laval, which earned the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as the AHL’s regular-season champions, finished nine points clear of Rochester at the top of the North Division.

Lower seeds won four of the seven series in the first round of this year’s playoffs before the higher seeds took all eight division semifinal series.

In the Stanley Cup Playoffs yesterday, Adam Henrique scored twice and Stuart Skinner made 23 saves for his second career Stanley Cup Playoff shutout as Edmonton blanked Vegas, 3-0... 2019 AHL All-Star Sean Walker tallied a goal and an assist in Carolina’s 5-2 win over Washington.

In yesterday’s action at the 2025 IIHF World Championship, 2019 Calder Cup champion Martin Necas scored twice and 2016 Calder Cup champion Lukas Sedlak added a goal and two assists as Czechia defeated Denmark, 7-2... 2016 Calder Cup champion Dean Kukan scored along with former Hershey Bears Jonas Siegenthaler and Damien Riat as Switzerland defeated the United States, 3-0... Marco Kasper notched a goal and an assist in Austria’s 3-2 shootout win over Slovakia... 2015 AHL All-Star Jacob Markstrom made 18 saves as Sweden edged Finland, 2-1.