AHL Playoff Preview: Rockford IceHogs at Milwaukee Admirals with Line Combinations 5/1/2025

AHL Playoff Preview: Rockford IceHogs at Milwaukee Admirals with Line Combinations 5/1/2025
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Game 1: Rockford IceHogs at Milwaukee Admirals

Venue: UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena
Date: Thursday, May 1
Time: 7:00 pm CDT
TV: FLO Sports 

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Rockford IceHogs News & Notes:

The IceHogs swept the best-of-three series against the Chicago Wolves to advance to this matchup. They went 3-5-2-0 against Milwaukee in the regular season, averaging 2.6 goals per game. Drew Commesso posted a 0.46 goals-against average and a .985 save percentage with a shutout.

Milwaukee Admirals News & Notes:

The Admirals had a bye and are well-rested, having not played since April 18th. They went 7-1-0-2 against Rockford in the regular season, averaging 3.1 goals per game.

Rockford IceHogs Projected Lines

Sanford-Guttman-Mayhew
Thompson-Seney-Anderson
Savoie-Cates-Hayes
Ludwinski-Luypen-Raty

Korchinski-Del Mastro
Fitzgerald-Levshunov
Kuzmin-Allan

Commesso
Weeks

Milwaukee Admirals Projected Lines

Rolston-Lucchini-Denisenko
Bellows-De Leo-Wiesblatt
Kemell-O’Reilly-Ylonen
Mutter-Pavel-Marino

Gravel-Friedman
Ottenbreit-Ufko
Stastney-Livingstone

Murray
Chrona

Players To Watch:

Rockford IceHogs

Cole Guttman leads the IceHogs in points and assists after the first series in the Calder Cup Playoffs with three points on three assists. Kevin Korchinski and Gerry Mayhew lead the team in goals with two. Guttman and Mayhew lead the team in plus/minus as both are plus-four.

Milwaukee Admirals

Cal O’Reilly led the Admirals in the regular season in points and assists, with 49 points with 38 assists. Jake Lucchini led the team in goals with 21, and he also led in plus/minus with a +17.

Next Game

Game 2: Saturday, May 3 at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena

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