Grand Rapids Griffins host Milwaukee tonight at 7, on an eight-game point streak

GRAND RAPIDS — The Grand Rapids Griffins host the Milwaukee Admirals at 7 p.m. Friday at Van Andel Arena, the first of five meetings in the building this season.

The team’s game notes, written by Andrew Streitel and dated Nov. 6, call it game 13 and home game 8. It is the second of 10 meetings overall. Milwaukee is the only club to beat the Griffins in regulation this season, a 4-1 win Oct. 10 at Panther Arena. Grand Rapids is on an eight-game point streak at 7-0-0-1. The notes put the Griffins at 6-0-0-1 at home and 3-1-1-0 on the road.

After a 6-2 win over Texas on Wednesday, the team listed Friday’s Milwaukee game as next. The Griffins’ two-game sweep of Rockford in October is the last home series this site wrote up. Friday is a different opponent and a different streak.

How the two teams arrive

The notes rank Milwaukee 24th in the AHL at 2.60 goals a game and first in goals allowed at 2.00. Grand Rapids is tied for first in scoring at 4.00 a game and third in goals allowed at 2.25. Milwaukee’s power play is 32nd at 7.3 percent and its penalty kill is fifth at 88.2 percent. The Griffins’ penalty kill is first at 94.1 percent and the power play is fourth at 26.2 percent.

Milwaukee is led by Cole O’Hara with nine points, 4 goals and 5 assists. Matt Murray is 4-1 with a 1.76 goals-against average and a .935 save percentage, third in the league in goals against and fifth in save percentage among the goalies the notes compare. Kyle Marino is third in the AHL with 46 penalty minutes. Two Admirals are from Michigan: captain Kevin Gravel of Kingsford and Hunter Skinner of Pinckney. Coach Karl Taylor is in his eighth season and is the winningest Admirals coach in the AHL era of the franchise, the notes say, with three division titles and four seasons of 40 or more wins.

The building record

Over the last five seasons the Griffins are 17-16-4 against Milwaukee, and 8-2-2 at Van Andel. The all-time series in the notes is 123-91-7-12-8 overall and 67-41-2-5-3 at home. The Admirals are Nashville’s AHL club. The notes also point out that Andrew Gibson and Chase Bradley were drafted by the Detroit Red Wings, the Griffins’ parent club.

The team schedule lists a patriotic T-shirt giveaway, a postgame jersey auction, and $3 beers and $3 hot dogs for Friday. The radio call on the game-preview page is 96.1 The Game at 6:45 p.m. The video feed is AHLTV on FloHockey. Saturday the Griffins are in Rockford at 8 p.m.

A preview, not a result

These notes were posted before the puck drop. They are not a score. The arena photo is from 2021. It does not show Friday’s crowd or the T-shirt table. Anyone going should treat the promotions as what the club listed on its schedule the day of the game.

Sources:
Grand Rapids Griffins game notes, Griffins vs. Admirals, Nov. 6, 2026, https://griffinshockey.com/news/game-notes-griffins-vs-admirals-nov-6-2026
Grand Rapids Griffins, “Three Times the Fun,” preview (7 p.m., radio, Oct. 10 loss), https://griffinshockey.com/news/three-times-the-fun-2
Grand Rapids Griffins schedule (Friday promotions, Saturday at Rockford), https://griffinshockey.com/schedule
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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