Chirps from Center Ice

It’s the first weekend of AHL hockey for the 2016-17 season and the Week 1 AHL Power Rankings are due.

If you are new to this, it’s one guys attempt at ranking all the AHL teams, 1-30. It runs all season on Monday at 4 p.m. most times, right here on the blog.

In this weeks version, the defending champs sit at the top of the mountain after raising a banner and beating a division rival.

The Eastern Conference runner ups and their closest competition are 2 and 3 this week.

Every team played a game this week except for the Bakersfield Condors, who are ranked, you just have to find them.

I won’t keep you. The Rankings begin after the jump if you didn’t link in direct.

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Another year in the can for the American Hockey League, their 80th and one of the best yet.

You have two teams in the East and the West which were the classes of the field. You have two teams that are serious dark horses to knock off the favorites.

How I do this, as I have in prior years, is that all 16 teams that qualify for the postseason are in your top 16 in the final rankings. The division winners are your top 4. This year, your dark horses are five and six.

I won’t keep you because it is this seasons last version of this. I have done this for three straight years and this by far is my most read, most popular piece on the blog because it brings in fans from all over the AHL here every Monday at 4 p.m.

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It’s the final week of the regular season and there is one playoff spot available in the East and one in the West down to two teams in the East and three in the West.

There are teams that are fine tuning for playoffs, while others are scrambling for positioning and others that are playing spoiler to playoff sides and others jockeying to get in. With two spots left, it’s shaping up to be a great end to the AHL’s 80th season.

No change to the top four this week. So if you memorized those last week, you are good to go. If not, click through the jump if you didn’t link in direct.

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There are two weeks left in the AHL regular season and still a lot to be decided for the 2016 Calder Cup Playoffs.

Seven teams have qualified. There are nine spots left; five in the East and four in the West.

Crossovers. Percentages. Games in hand. We try to make sense of it all in the Week 26 version of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings.

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We are about two weeks away from the end of the regular season and two teams have already qualified for the Calder Cup Playoffs.

These two teams are more than likely odds on locks to become foes in the Calder Cup Finals in June.

They are 1-2 in the Week 25 version of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings.

If you don’t know who, you either haven’t been paying enough attention to the AHL this season or you don’t read these Rankings on a weekly basis.

I am not going to ruin it for you in the lede. You will need to jump through to see who it is and where your favorite team ended up this week.

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It’s Week 24 of the AHL Power Rankings here at Chirps from Center Ice and there is already one team qualified for the Calder Cup Playoffs.

It’s the Toronto Marlies.

But the Marlies are not the number one team this week.

It’s not last weeks number one Grand Rapids, either.

Instead of me ruining it for you here in the lede, click through to see who it is and where your favorite team ended up this week.

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It’s the Week 23 Edition of the Chirps from Center Ice AHL Power Rankings and the door is open for teams in the Eastern Conference and teams in the Western Conference with some teams in crossover spots losing key games this weekend.

A once unbeatable team is leaving the door open for their second place divisional foes to take a run at the top spot.

One team has outscored opponents 45-11 in their 11 game winning streak.

To find out who these teams are and see where your favorite team ended up, jump through if you didn’t link in direct.

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