The Admirals announced this week that they have extended their contract with the Predators to be their top developmental affiliate through 2013-2014 season. The contract includes a mutual option for the following season. The current season is the 14th during which the two teams have been aligned. It has been fruitful for the Admirals, who have an above .500 winning percentage over the life of the ...

The Predators announced today that they traded Blake Geoffrion to the Montreal Canadiens. Geoffrion is a former Badger and winner of the Hobey Baker Award. Though he started the season in Nashville, he was injured early on and hasn't made it back to the NHL in a few months, spending time with the AHL Milwaukee Admirals. Geoffrion played 22 games with the Predators this season. He registered three ...

Just 17 games into the season, Admirals coach Kirk Muller was hired away to be the head coach for the NHL Carolina Hurricanes. Former Admirals coach Lane Lambert was promoted to an assitant position with the AHL's parent team, the Nashville Predators, in the offseason and the Ads brought in Muller, who'd been an assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens since 2006. Muller had the resume and it w...

Didn't find it anywhere on the internet yet, but Geoffrion's close pal and former teammate Mike Davies (with the AHL Chicago Wolves) just tweeted that Blake had been called up by the Predators.   This note, from this morning's notes on the Nashville Predators' website, seems to confirm that a callup was imminent: " The coaches and scouts will meet on the flight out to Dallas to determine who...

Former Badger and current Milwaukee Admiral Blake Geoffrion was named AHL Player of the Week for the second week in a row. He's the first player to win the honor in back-to-back weeks in 16 years. He won the honor last week after putting up four points on his own bobblehead night. He has three assists and scored the game-winning goal. The Ads very next game he came out and put up a three point ...

Check out this jaw-dropping goal by Admiral Linus Klasen at the AHL Skills Competition this past weekend. � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sbqj_N2P0&NR=1 Sorry, the embedding doesn't seem to be working...

AP writer Colin Fly noted on Twitter today that the Predators sent Blake Geoffrion to Milwaukee and that he will be with the team when training camp opens....

Nolan Yonkman signed a contract with the Phoenix Coyotes, which will take him away from the Admirals. Yonkman was the Ads' captain for the past three seasons. ...

Most would agree that surgery, auto repair and law enforcement are best left to professionals. Some might choose to add sports to this list, and for those who prefer to watch rather than do, Milwaukee serves up professional spectator sports year round. Enjoy a brat bedaubed in Secret Stadium Sauce along with a beer or two and cheer on the Major League Baseball Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park, one of the finest places to view a ballgame in the nation. Even if the weather outside is frightful, with Miller's retractable roof, every day's a great day for a ballgame...

The Milwaukee Admirals offer fans perhaps the biggest carrot of the season tonight with a post-game concert from The BoDeans, the beloved Milwaukee band and perennial Summerfest headliners. That group is riding high from last year’s Still, an album that reunited them with producer T-Bone Burnett and delivers plenty of their signature, upbeat roots-rock. It’s arguably the group’s best album in 15 years. The game itself...