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Photo: Brad Repplinger\/AHL<\/p>\n\tPhoto: Brad Repplinger\/AHL<\/p>\n
ROCKFORD, Ill. \u2026 The Eastern Conference held off a late charge to record an 18-15 win in the 2026 AHL All-Star Skills Competition<\/a> on Tuesday evening at the BMO Center, home of the Rockford IceHogs.<\/p>\n Konsta Helenius<\/a>, the 19-year-old forward from the Rochester Americans, won the CCM Fastest Skater event with a time of 13.770 seconds, and AHL goal-scoring leader Arthur Kaliyev<\/a> of the Belleville Senators clocked a blast at 104.0 miles per hour to win the CCM Hardest Shot title.<\/p>\n Leading the Western Conference, Coachella Valley Firebirds forward Jagger Firkus<\/a> became just the sixth player in AHL history to go a perfect 4-for-4 in the Hard Rock Casino Rockford Accuracy Shooting event while the San Diego Gulls\u2019 Calle Clang<\/a> stopped 16 of 18 shots to earn CCM Top Goaltender honors. Abbotsford Canucks forward Ben Berard<\/a> stole the show with a highlight-reel goal in the Upper Deck Breakaway Relay.<\/p>\n The Eastern Conference raced out to an 8-1 lead through four events, winning three of the four heats in the Inglasco Puck Control Relay and taking the Fortune Tires Rapid Fire event.<\/p>\n The 2026 AHL All-Star Classic presented by BMO continues on Wednesday with the AHL Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony at noon ET\/11 a.m. CT, featuring the enshrinement of Chris Bourque, Alexandre Giroux, Jim Wiemer and Wendell Young, and also celebrating honorary All-Star Classic captains Patrick Sharp and Kris Versteeg. The ceremony will be streamed live on AHLTV on FloHockey and FloHockey\u2019s social platforms.<\/p>\n The league\u2019s mid-season showcase wraps up Wednesday night at 8 ET\/7 CT with the 2026 AHL All-Star Challenge, a round-robin tournament among the league\u2019s four divisions played at 3-on-3. Produced by the Chicago Sports Network, the All-Star Challenge will air live across the United States on NHL Network, in Canada on TSN5, and on the internet at AHLTV on FloHockey as well as FloHockey\u2019s social platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Brad Repplinger\/AHL ROCKFORD, Ill. \u2026 The Eastern Conference held off a late charge to record an 18-15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-462699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}