Hockey can be a weird sport, especially come playoff time.
For the Grand Rapids Griffins, their Central Division Finals battle against the Chicago Wolves saw the Western Conference’s best team during regular season dominate the last three games of the series only to run into a hot goaltender and see their season come to end.
Ultimately, the Griffins fell to the Wolves in the best-of-five series, three games to one, with the only victory in the series coming in Game 3 in Chicago by a 4-3 score in overtime.
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— y-Grand Rapids Griffins (@griffinshockey) May 22, 2026
RECAP: Down 3-0 entering the final three minutes of the third period, the Griffins scored twice with an extra attacker but ultimately fell 3-2 to the Chicago Wolves, ending their historic season with a 3-1 series loss in the Central Division Finals.
— y-Grand Rapids Griffins (@griffinshockey) May 22, 2026
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The Chicago Wolves advance to the Western Conference Finals to take on the Colorado Eagles.
The Griffins end the third season of the Dan Watson era with a 51-16-4-1 (W-L-OTL-SOL) record in the regular season, good for 107 points and the most points since the 2005-06 (115 points), and making it to the Central Division Finals in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
