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The AHL is expected to announce as soon as Monday that it will cancel the remainder of the 2019-20 season because of the outbreak, leaving the NHL as the lone holdout among professional leagues in North American still hoping to complete its season. The NHL and AHL each suspended play March 12. Guhle, 22, signed a two-season, $1.6-million contract and Carrick, 28, signed a one-season, $700,000 deal. Guhle had four goals and four assists in 30 games with the Ducks, and Carrick had one goal and one assist in nine games. Both players were on the Gulls’ roster when the season was paused. Guhle also had four goals and 10 assists in 27 games with the Gulls this season. Carrick led San Diego with 23 goals and 43 points in 46 games. He also had a team-leading plus-27 plus/minus defensive rating, the second-best mark in the AHL. San Diego was fourth in the AHL’s Pacific Division when play was suspended, holding the division’s final playoff spot. The Gulls advanced to the Western Conference final of the Calder Cup playoffs last season before losing to the Chicago Wolves, the Vegas Golden Knights’ AHL team. Orange County Register: LOADED: 05.11.2020 1184321 Arizona Coyotes a scary man. Missing him for the rest of the playoffs certainly was a problem for us.” The Coyotes were still doing their thing in Game 1 at Jobing.com Arena. What-ifs riddle Coyotes’ 2012 playoff run, with Raffi Torres topping the Despite being outshot 17-4 in the first period, the Coyotes tied the game list when defenseman Derek Morris beat Jonathan Quick with a shot from center ice. I remember turning to former arizonacoyotes.com writer Dave Vest in the press box after the goal and wondering aloud if the Coyotes By Craig Morgan were a team of destiny. May 10, 2020 The shot totals after two periods were 34-18, but when Mikkel Boedker tied the game at 18:05 of the second period off a feed from Shane Doan that was set up by Antoine Vermette’s check behind the net, the Coyotes Every Monday and Thursday through the end of May, The Athletic had momentum going to the third period. Arizona is reliving the Coyotes’ 2012 playoff run to the Western “With the way we had done things in the first two rounds, I definitely Conference final. You can also watch the games on Fox Sports Arizona thought we had a good chance,” Boedker said. during their “Classic Coyotes Night” programming series. More information available here. Coyotes enemy No. 1, Brown, took it away when he scored just 2:11 into the third period, and Dwight King added an empty-net goal to mark the Read the full collection of stories in our retrospective here. first time in that postseason that the Coyotes had trailed in a playoff Playoff runs that fall short of the ultimate goal are always littered with series. what-ifs. For the 2011-12 Coyotes, that list includes: By the time the Coyotes arrived in L.A. for Game 3, the series lead was What if the L.A. Kings hadn’t made the postseason as the Western 2-0 after a lopsided, 4-0 L.A. win in Game 2. Worse yet, the Coyotes Conference’s eighth and final playoff team? would be without Hanzal for Game 3 after this hit on Brown earned him a one-game suspension, removing another one of the Coyotes’ more What if the Coyotes hadn’t had a momentum-cooling six days off physically imposing players. between their conference semifinal win over the Nashville Predators and the start of the Western Conference final against the Kings? “I was really sick of that guy,” Hanzal said. “It was a fair call.” What if defenseman Adrian Aucoin had played more than 12 minutes and Hanzal does not feel the same about the Torres call. 17 seconds in that conference final? “I still believe Raffi Torres’ hit was a clean hit,” he said. “I remember we What if Martin Hanzal hadn’t been suspended for Game 3? were talking about it with Doaner. Whenever we see suspensions we think about that hit. We’ve seen way worse hits that don’t get that kind of What if the officiating hadn’t levied 106 minutes in penalties against the suspension — or any suspension. Coyotes, and only 58 against the Kings? “Raffi Torres was one of the most important players on our team because What if Dustin Brown had been penalized for what looked like a he is so powerful and aggressive. If you ask anybody in the league what dangerous kneeing infraction on Michal Rozsival (more on that later in it’s like to play against Raffi Torres they’ll say, ‘I hate playing against the this series) in Game 5? guy.’ He’s so strong and he goes all the way through you. We were missing Raffi Torres for sure with the way they played, and I still think And what if Raffi Torres hadn’t been suspended for the rest of the things might have been different if he had played.” postseason? Instead, Torres was reduced to playing the role of spectator in the “To me, that’s where the biggest impact came,” former coach Dave dressing room or in a suite. Tippett said of Torres.