{"id":376373,"date":"2025-12-28T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:24:10","slug":"griffins-tie-franchise-record-winning-streak-on-cossa-shutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376373\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffins tie franchise-record winning streak on Cossa shutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KGF7NMMRJRBWBN55HDL2COZC7E\">Sebastian Cossa made 26 saves Saturday for his fourth shutout of the season, and the Grand Rapids Griffins equaled a franchise record with their 15th consecutive victory, defeating the Milwaukee Admirals 3-0 0 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2ZCV5KXQM5F3XEOKGA6A3NW7TY\">The Griffins improved to 26-1-0-1 (W-L-OTL-SOL) for 53 points, the best record through 28 games in AHL history. Their winning streak is the sixth longest in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2CYVR5FOTZHM5OXI64VEKDFLJA\">Cossa, appearing in his 100th game, improved to 15-1-0 with a 1.57 goals-against average and .940 save percentage. He ranks first in the AHL in wins and GAA and second in save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UNOULF24GZF55C2A7BV2OBBFNQ\">The Griffins host the Admirals on Wednesday (6 p.m.) when they\u2019ll try to establish a new club record for consecutive victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WQ5DRICMUJGTRARIVY5VUEEQAI\">Erik Gustafsson (second goal) and Sheldon Dries (his 10th) scored power-play goals in the second period. Austin Watson capped the scoring with an empty-net goal in the final minute of regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WHLJZWGJEJEP3GMZO3KT7SBM4A\">Dan Watson recorded his 100th win as head coach, tying Danton Cole (172 games) for the second-fastest to reach the mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Cossa made 26 saves Saturday for his fourth shutout of the season, and the Grand Rapids Griffins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-376373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}