Grand Rapids Griffins beat Milwaukee 4-2, and Shine passes Richards

GRAND RAPIDS — The Grand Rapids Griffins beat the Milwaukee Admirals 4-2 on Friday at Van Andel Arena and stretched their point streak to nine games, 8-0-0-1. Friday’s preview had the Griffins on an eight-game point streak before the opening faceoff.

The team recap said Dominik Shine’s second-period goal moved him past Travis Richards, who had 238 points, into second on the franchise list. Shine also had an assist and now has 240 points. Michel Picard remains first at 380. Shine has 11 points in the last four games, the recap said, including two hat tricks. Dylan James had a goal and an assist. Carter Bear had two assists and extended a point streak to four games, 1-6-7.

Sutter Muzzatti scored at 5:20 of the first, from James and Stillman, in his first game back from an injury that had kept him out since early October. James made it 2-0 at 11:45 with a shorthanded wraparound, from Bear and Buium, with 10 seconds left on a Griffins penalty. The Admirals had 42 seconds of a two-man advantage in that sequence and did not score. Shine’s power-play goal, from Bear and Skoog, came at 8:42 of the second. Cole O’Hara cut it to 3-1 at 16:10 of the second, from Joakim Kemell and Tyson Jost. Noah Dower Nilsson scored into an empty net at 17:50 of the third, from Shine. Chase Bradley answered at 18:06. The Milwaukee recap said Dower Nilsson’s empty-netter came with 2:10 left and Bradley’s goal 16 seconds later. The final was the same 4-2.

The goalies

Trey Augustine stopped 25 shots and extended his own point streak to five games, 4-0-1, the Griffins said. Milwaukee said Matt Murray stopped 22 in the loss and that the Admirals fell to 7-4-0-0, still third in the Central with 14 points. Grand Rapids killed five of six penalties. The team had entered the night first in the AHL on the penalty kill at 94.1 percent. Milwaukee’s power-play goal was its fourth of the season, the Admirals’ recap said, and James’s shorthanded goal was the first short-handed goal Milwaukee had allowed.

What the photo is not

The picture is the arena in 2021. It does not show Shine’s goal, Muzzatti’s return, or Friday’s crowd. The Milwaukee recap said the Admirals host Iowa at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Griffins’ Friday story did not list Grand Rapids’s next opponent, so this one does not invent it.

Sources:
Grand Rapids Griffins, “Fly the Flag,” Nov. 6, 2026, https://griffinshockey.com/news/nov-6-2026-griffins-4-vs-admirals-2
Milwaukee Admirals, “Admirals Fall to Griffins,” Nov. 6, 2026 (Murray’s 22 saves, empty-net timing, Iowa on Saturday), https://www.milwaukeeadmirals.com/news/admirals-fall-to-griffins-2/
Photo: WMrapids, “Van Andel Arena 2021.jpg”, Wikimedia Commons, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AVan_Andel_Arena_2021.jpg

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