{"id":657888,"date":"2026-05-22T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657888\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:49:08","slug":"wolves-deliver-knockout-blow-to-griffins-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657888\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves deliver knockout blow to Griffins | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noah Philp<\/a> scored twice, Cayden Primeau<\/a> made 33 saves and the Chicago Wolves eliminated the Central Division champion Grand Rapids Griffins with a 3-2 win in Game 4 of their best-of-five series at Allstate Arena on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Chicago will take on the Colorado Eagles in the Western Conference Finals, with Game 1 scheduled for next Thursday in Loveland, Colo. It will be the Wolves\u2019 seventh conference finals appearance since joining the AHL in 2001-02.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Grand Rapids\u2019 loss leaves no division champions among the AHL\u2019s final four teams for just the second time since 1997.<\/p>\n

Philp broke a 0-0 tie with two minutes remaining in the second period, and he added another goal 4:02 into the third. They were Philp\u2019s first two points of the series.<\/p>\n

Justin Robidas<\/a> then netted his third goal of the series with 3:56 to play to make it 3-0, and that proved to be the game-winning tally as the Griffins scored twice late with Michal Postava<\/a> off for an extra attacker. Eduards Tralmaks<\/a> spoiled Primeau\u2019s shutout bid with 2:47 remaining, and Sheldon Dries<\/a> deflected in a shot from Michael Brandsegg-Nyg\u00e5rd<\/a> with 14.9 seconds to go.<\/p>\n

Postava, who started all eight postseason games for the Griffins, turned aside 18 of 21 shots in the loss.<\/p>\n

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(Chicago wins series, 3-1)
Game 1 \u2013 Thu., May 14 \u2013 Chicago 2, GRAND RAPIDS 1<\/a>
Game 2 \u2013 Sat., May 16 \u2013 Chicago 4, GRAND RAPIDS 3 (OT)<\/a>
Game 3 \u2013 Tue., May 19 \u2013 Grand Rapids 4, CHICAGO 3 (OT)<\/a>
Game 4 \u2013 Thu., May 21 \u2013 CHICAGO 3, Grand Rapids 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Philp scored twice, Cayden Primeau made 33 saves and the Chicago Wolves eliminated the Central Division champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-657888","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\/657888","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=657888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}