Milwaukee Admirals drop regular-season finale vs. IceHogs
MILWAUKEE - Isaac Ratcliffe scored the Admirals' lone goal as they dropped the regular season finale 3-1 to the Rockford IceHogs on Sunday afternoon at Panther Arena.
The Admirals finished the regular season with a record of 41-24-5-2 and 89 points, good for second place in the Central Division. They will play the Manitoba Moose in the best-of-five Central Division Semifinals beginning Friday, April 28.
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Rockford jumped out to a 3-0 after the first 20 minutes of play on goals. Bobby Lynch open the scoring with a goal at 2:31 of the first on a play where Ads goalie Yaroslav Askarov was tripped causing him to be out of position on Lynch’s one-timer.
The IceHogs picked up tallies from Isaak Philp at 11:32 and Brett Seney at 17:15 to build a three-goal advantage and give them all the scoring they would need as Arvid Soderblom was stellar in net for Rockford, stopping 26.
Ratcliffe got the Admirals on the board just 2:12 into the final stanza on his fourth goal for the team since being acquired at the trade deadline. The play started when Tommy Apap won a puck battle along the board, turned and found an open Ratcliffe, whose quick shot from just above the hash marks beat Soderblom over the glove.
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Former Admiral Rocco Grimaldi finished the game with an empty netter 29 seconds to go to make it 4-1.