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Allen Opens “Drive For Five” With Five-Game Conquest of Utah

The Allen Americans' “drive for five” straight post season championships kicked into another gear during their five game conquest of ECHL Western Conference rival Utah. General Manager-Coach Steve Martinson'...

Allen’s Drive For Five Kicks Into Overdrive

The Allen Americans are of the opinion that their drive for five has kicked into overdrive. Winners of two straight ECHL Kelly Cup playoff championships and four consecutive post-season chalices spanning two...

Krushelnyski a Crucial Addition as Depleted Americans Prep for Playoffs and a Fifth straight post season cup

It is both a blessing and a curse when your ECHL hockey club is playing as well as the Allen Americans. The four-time defending post season champion Allen Americans (two in the CHL, and the last two seasons in ...

Four-Time Defending Kelly & Presidents Cup Champ Allen Counting Down To “Drive For Five”

The proverbial "Drive for Five" straight championships has begun for the Allen Americans. The ECHL standout franchise has primed the pump in hopes of adding a third straight Kelly Cup title to their previous...

Americans Embrace, Overcome Offensive Obstacles To Ascend ECHL’s Western Conference

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” --Molière It isn’t easy being the two-time defending ECHL Presidents Cup champion. The Allen Americans learned that the hard way during the fi...

Wheeling Ties Kelly Cup Finals

A five goal third period usually leads to a victory. Usually. But the Allen Americans dug themselves too big a hole in Game Two of their ECHL Kelly Cup Final series on Sunday afternoon, May 29 at a sold o...

Americans Win Another Game Seven, Keep Streak Alive

The ECHL defending Kelly Cup Champion Allen Americans are at their best – and most dangerous – when they play a Game Seven on their Allen Event Center Home Ice. General Manager/Coach Steve Martinson’s “never...

Saluting the Allen Americans’ ‘Hat Trick’ of Pro Hockey Championships

Winning is contagious! That winning feeling breeds the desire to succeed. The coach sets the mood, then a leader among the players enjoins another to believe that they can overcome the intense odds of postse...

Americans Soar to Top of ECHL at All-Star Break

As it turns out, the well-coiffed Allen Americans’ players didn’t need their Combs after all. A few days after forward Jack Combs, the ECHL’s scoring leader (with 56 points and 22 goals) and Allen’s All-Star...

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