Abbotsford Canucks Punch Their Ticket To The 2025 Calder Cup Finals With A 4–2 Game 6 Win Against The Texas Stars

The Abbotsford Canucks are off to the 2025 Calder Cup Finals.

After a 21 overtime loss in Texas on Friday, the AHL Canucks locked down their spot in the Calder Cup Finals in front of their fans.

In this 42 Game 6 match against the Texas Stars, Arshdeep Bains potted two, while Jujhar Khaira and Max Sasson also found the back of the net.

Arturs Silovs kept the net safe, stopping 22 of 24 shots against.

With the win, Abbotsford will take on the Eastern Conference Champion Charlotte Checkers.

Abbotsford tore out of the gates with a bang, swarming Texas zone for the first few minutes of the period.

This stretch of O-zone time was interrupted after the Stars brought the puck back out to Abbotsfords zone, during which Max Sasson was called for slashing.

Prior to tonight, Abbotsford had allowed four power play goals against the Stars.

In their first penalty kill of the night, the team looked to have bounced back, negating many of Texas chances and keeping centre ice locked up.

It didnt take long for the AHL Canucks to end up back on the penalty kill.

10 minutes after taking their first of the game, and around a minute after getting a power play opportunity of their own, Abbotsford ended up shorthanded yet again after Nate Smith was called for boarding.

Texas held possession through most of it, but Silovs was there to stop any shots that came through.

The opening goal of the game came off a crazy sequence that initially had Abbotsford fans thinking theyd scored.

The AHL Canucks fired a shot on Magnus Hellbergs net, with the puck barely bouncing off the crossbar.

While Abbotsford had thought theyd scored, Texas stole the puck back and capitalized on the opening to take a 10 lead into the first intermission.

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The Stars goaltender endured long stretches of long-range and in-tight offence from the AHL Canucks, racking up 17 saves by the halfway point of the game.

After Abbotsford gave up the 20 goal in the second period, Hellberg made a big stop on Dino Kambeitz to keep the AHL Canucks off the scoresheet.

Things started to go Abbotsfords way after their first goal from Bains.

Taking a one-goal deficit into the third period, the AHL Canucks tied things up less than two minutes in off a tally from Khaira.

They continued the pressure by keeping O-zone possession and winning their battles past the blueline.

The Abbotsford Centre erupted when Sasson scored the AHL Canucks go-ahead goal with less than 10 minutes left in the third period.

After virtually the entire period was spent in Texas zone, Abbotsford finally cracked Hellberg for a third time.

When the time came to lock things down, the AHL Canucks did exactly that, delivering a masterclass in defending a late lead while also adding a beautiful empty-net goal to their arsenal.

It was exactly the type of performance youd expect from a team hungry to make the Calder Cup Finals.

Its obviously a huge step for us as a group, as an organization, Abbotsford head coach Manny Malhotra said postgame of the win.

Im happy to see the guys getting rewarded for the way theyre playing and their commitment to what were trying to do here.

Its been a goal of ours all year to get to this point, and obviously Im really proud of everyone in that room.

It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of effort throughout the year to get to this point.

So yeah, well enjoy this one tonight, but theres still lots of work, added AHL Canucks captain Chase Wouters.

Pretty special accomplishment for this group, this organization, the staff, everyone, Sasson said.

When you win the conference, you know, its pretty special.

And were definitely pretty happy and excited in the locker room, and definitely gonna celebrate it tonight.

And you know, it just means the world, and well be ready for Charlotte, but weve got to enjoy these moments.

They dont come every year.

Scoring Summary: 1st Period: 18:35 - TEX: Matej Blumel (7) from Curtis McKenzie and Alex Petrovic 2nd Period: 13:05 - TEX: Harrison Scott (1) from Justin Ertel and Kyle Looft 18:52 - ABB: Arshdeep Bains (2) from Christian Wolanin and Sammy Blais 3rd Period: 1:52 - ABB: Jujhar Khaira (3) from Nate Smtih and Kirill Kudryavstev 11:50 - ABB: Max Sasson (4) from Akito Hirose and Phil Di Giuseppe 19:25 - ABB: Arshdeep Bains (3) The 2025 Calder Cup Finals will begin on June 13 in Charlotte at 4:00 pm PT.

The AHL will be back at the Abbotsford Centre for Games 3 (June 17), 4 (June 19), and 5 (June 21).

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