This is the first time since 2008 that an organization's parent club and its affiliate in the AHL (the Triple-A of hockey) have been in the league finals at the same time. There have been three ...

Championship finals hockey returns to Charlotte on Friday night, when the Charlotte Checkers face the Abbotsford Canucks in Game 1 of the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup finals.

It’s essentially a suburb of Vancouver, located about 25 miles southeast (inland). It’s the fifth-biggest city in British Columbia. Hockey is a big deal in Abbotsford.