The Grand Rapids Griffins\u2019 first round bye means they will have a lengthy wait before they will play a best-of-five series against the winner of the Manitoba Moose vs. Milwaukee Admirals first round series.<\/p>\n
The Griffins first two games of the Central Division semifinal will be on the road (dates and time to be determined). Games 3, 4, and 5 are scheduled for Grand Rapids on Wednesday, May 6, Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9. All three games in Grand Rapids are 7 p.m. starts.<\/p>\n
Tickets go on sale this Friday. By the way, the Griffins will continue their popular $2 beer and $2 hot dog promotion for all home playoff games. <\/p>\n
The earliest the Griffins will know their opponent is this Friday. The latest it will be known is Sunday.<\/p>\n
Red Wings In Case You Missed It<\/p>\n
Sebastian Cossa and Michal Postava shared the AHL\u2019s \u201cHap\u201d Holmes Award<\/a> for fewest goals against<\/p>\n Bob Duff looks at how the Red Wings roster will change <\/a>next season. <\/p>\n Red Wings Extra<\/p>\n The AHL All-Rookie team had Sergei Murashov (23-8-4, 2.24 GAA, .918 Sv%) as its goalie, instead Grand Rapids Griffins\u2019 Michal Postava (17-6-0, 1.71, .937). Presumably, Murashov received the honor based on the fact he played a higher percentage of his team\u2019s games. Murashov was also up with the Pittsburgh Penguins for a while. . . Former Detroit player Elmer Soderblom played 10:25 for the Penguins in Game 1 and 8:39 in Game 2<\/p>\n Hockey Now Digest<\/p>\n Boston: Jack Studley makes it clear that the Bruins\u2019 second line needs to be better in Game 2. Boston Bruins.<\/a><\/p>\n Florida: It\u2019s not lost on the Panthers that they have a small chance of ending up with the No. 1 draft pick. Florida Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n Montreal: Marc Dumont looks at the key factor for Montreal\u2019s success in Game 1 against Tampa Bay. Montreal Canadiens.<\/a><\/p>\n New Jersey: James Nichols looks at where the Devils could pick in the June draft. New Jersey Devils.<\/a><\/p>\n Philadelphia: William James explore\u2019s Porter Martone\u2019s ability to be a game-changing presence on the Philadelphia Flyers. <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grand Rapids Griffins\u2019 first round bye means they will have a lengthy wait before they will play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,1546,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-557560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-grand-rapids-griffins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-red-wings","15":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116445543927076717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}