with files from Patrick Williams
Twenty-five days after their last home game, the Grand Rapids Griffins finally return to Van Andel Arena tonight for Game 3 of their Central Division semifinal series against the Manitoba Moose (7 ET, 
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The Griffins finished the regular season with a three-game road trip, waiting for the first round and opening the series in Winnipeg. Their last appearance on home ice was April 11 against Rockford.
Grand Rapids averaged 7,949 fans per game in 2025-26, ranking fifth in the AHL.
“They pushed us to win every game,” said the goalkeeper Michal Postavawho was 7-2-0 in nine decisions on home ice this season.
Postava’s 30-save shutout in Game 2 tied the Griffins’ streak behind Manitoba’s. Domenic DiVincentiis made 39 shots in a 1-0 Moose win in Game 1. The two netminders combined to stop 123 of 126 shots in the series, a .976 save percentage.
“This is the best time of the year,” DiVincentiis said. “If you can’t fight for these kinds of games, then I don’t know what you’re doing.”
Colorado will host Henderson in Game 3 of the Pacific Division semifinals tonight (9:05 ET, ) after the Silver Knights evened the series with a 4-3 victory in double overtime on Monday.
Tanner Laczynski scored the game-winning goal on the power play 1:51 into the second OT period.
“We got where we needed to be,” said Laczynski. “Going with it and going through it, good things happen.”
Henderson played Game 2 without a defender Dylan Coghlanwhen you remember in Vegas, but the blueliners Lukas Cormier again William Kmec goal, and Cormier got an assist when Laczynski redirected his point for the game-winner.
“We stuck to it,” the Silver Knights captain Jacob Megna said. “It wasn’t an elimination game but we wanted to make sure we got it at home.”
Colorado dropped five of its six home games in the regular season, but the Eagles beat San Diego twice in the first round, and have won 10 since Henderson at Blue Arena since their last loss on Nov. 8, 2023.
In Colorado Trent Miner (3-1, 1.15, .952), who made 38 saves in Game 2, has allowed just five goals on 105 shots this postseason.
