2ND RD: North Bay Warriors (1) vs. (5) Vancouver Heroes Sedins lead Heroes in colossal comeback, Vancouver returns to Finals March 27th, 2011 Hockey sometimes demands a terrible price be paid for glory. The Vancouver Heroes paid that exorbitant toll in countless ways Sunday night as they punched their ticket for a return trip to the AFHL Stanley […]
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Washington Power end season with Cup parade
April 11th, 2011 Goaltenders Roberto Luongo and Tim Thomas stopped just about everything in the Stanley Cup playoffs. With thousands of jubilant fans celebrating the Power’s title last Thursday, they couldn’t stop their emotions. “I’ve had to wipe away a few tears,” Tim Thomas said. “This is why I play in Washington.” Three days after Washington raised the hallowed […]
TheAFHL.com’s Million-Dollar Facelift
Monday, April 18th, 2011 The Amazing Fantasy Hockey League (AFHL), often called the most famous fantasy hockey league in the world, has begun it’s million-dollar renovation, it’s first in AFHL history. “The AFHL is moving full-speed ahead on it’s renovation to provide AFHL fans and GMs with the state-of-the-art website the greatest league in the world deserves” AFHL […]
Farm team roster limit increases
Free agency fireworks could start tonight @ midnight AFHL farm team roster limit will increase from 12 players to 23 players May 31st, 2011 The first thing to remember when shopping for diamonds in the free agency rough: the key to success in all hockey formats is carefully crafting a well-rounded team. The question is […]
New GMs are ready to trade
June 2nd, 2011 Call it whatever you want. A housecleaning. A makeover. A revamping. No matter how you slice it, the new GMs are usually the most active in making trades during the offseason so it should be interesting to see which of the four new GMs will be most trigger-happy in this offseason. “Not […]
Hasta la vista, Schmansky
New Mustangs GM gets fired on just the 11th day of his tenure June 10th, 2011 Tom Schmansky didn’t last a summer, let alone a winter, as coach and GM of the Mustangs franchise. Hired less than two weeks ago, Schmansky was abruptly fired Friday in his 11th day on the job. His legacy will be the shortest GM stint – […]
Awards Show Preview
July 23rd, 2011 After months and months of hard work, it’s time for the stars of the Amazing Fantasy Hockey League to kick back, relax and enjoy some time in Montreal. The League’s second annual awards show will take place in Montreal and it’s promising to be a grand event. The show is expected to […]
Season Preview – Around the League
October 6th, 2011 And the wait is finally over. AFHL arenas will be jumping tonight as each team will take the ice in their first matchups of the 2011-12 regular season. Let’s take a look around the league… Boston Giants: Evgeni Malkin is simply fantastic. A lot of people are predicting a career year […]
Trash talking leads to thrown punches in Toronto/Lakehead’s first matchup
December 6th, 2011 The Lakehead Thunderwolves were trailing the Toronto Red Devils for most of their Week 8 matchup until they got goals from Jaromir Jagr, Luke Adam, and Logan Couture to end the matchup in a tie and remain the only undefeated team in the AFHL. But it was what was said throughout the matchup between Toronto coach Jordan Carbone and Lakehead coach Jason Briggs that had everyone […]
Nellany draws first blood on eve of Chiefs/Killers rivalry matchup
GM Nellany draws first blood on the eve of the Killers-Chiefs rivalry matchup December 12th, 2011 “In a rivalry matchup like this, the team that draws first blood normally has an advantage the whole week,” Deer Park GM Mike Nellany told a reporter late last night. “We’re going to draw first blood.” Nellany did just that on Monday morning […]