{"id":64217,"date":"2025-06-06T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/64217\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:10:14","slug":"a-win-tonight-would-send-abbotsford-to-ahl-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/64217\/","title":{"rendered":"A win tonight would send Abbotsford to AHL finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Charlotte Checkers are cheering for the Texas Stars to beat the Abbotsford Canucks<\/a> tonight, rest assured of that.<\/p>\n

Charlotte has already advanced to the AHL Calder Cup championship series, as the Florida Panthers\u2019 farm team swept the Laval Rocket in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals. That set ended Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Checkers are waiting on the West winner and will be glad to see Abbotsford and Texas tire themselves out coming to that outcome. The Canucks carry a 3-1 lead on the Stars into Game 5 tonight (5 p.m.) in Cedar Park, Texas. Game 6, if necessary, would be Sunday (6 p.m.) at the Abbotsford Centre and the Game 7 would also be there on Monday (7 p.m.) if it\u2019s required.<\/p>\n

Abbotsford is coming off a 5-4 overtime victory in Texas on Wednesday. Texas is the farm team of the Dallas Stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Calder Cup gets going June 13 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Game 2 is there June 15, before the series shifts to either Abbotsford or Texas with Game 3 on June 17.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth season that the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have had their AHL team in Abbotsford, and this is easily the deepest they\u2019ve gotten into the playoffs in that tenure. A win tonight would mark a fourth series win of these playoffs; they had two series wins in the first three years combined.<\/p>\n

This is the best a Canuck farm team has done in the AHL post-season since the Utica Comets made it to the Calder Cup finals in 2015, where they lost in five games to the Manchester Monarchs.<\/p>\n

This season, Abbotsford (44-24-2-2) finished second in the Pacific Division in the regular season and fifth overall in the league. Texas (43-26-3-0) was second in Central and 10th overall, while Charlotte (44-22-3-3) was second in the Atlantic and fourth overall, two points ahead of Abbotsford. The Canucks and Checkers did not play this season.<\/p>\n

Winger Linus Karlsson leads Abbotsford in scoring through the playoffs, with nine goals and 17 points going into tonight. Wingers Sammy Blais (3-8-11) and Arshdeep Bains<\/a> (0-11-11) are next best.<\/p>\n

Blais and fellow winger Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki both came out of Abbotsford\u2019s lineup for Wednesday\u2019s game. There was no word from the team whether it was injury related or a healthy scratch. Lekkerim\u00e4ki has one goal and five points in 12 playoff games. He had 19 goals in 36 regular season games with Abbotsford.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you aren\u2019t able to watch the game in person, check back for the play-by-play updates throughout tonight\u2019s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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