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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Rockford IceHogs amp back up for another playoff series against a veteran Milwaukee Admirals team
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — The IceHogs breezed through their first playoff series sweeping the Chicago Wolves in two games. Now they face a bigger challenge in the Central Division Semifinals. They'll face the Milwaukee Admirals starting Thursday first task facing the IceHogs for this series is putting the Chicago series behind them.'We want to know what we did, but we also want to turn the page and focus on a new opponent,' said IceHogs forward Cole Guttman after a voluntary practice Tuesday morning. 'I think that was just a new standard for us, and we know our ceiling is high.'The Admirals are the Central Division champions. During the regular season the IceHogs record against them was only 3-7. The IceHogs managed only 2.2 goals per game against the Admirals in regulation. The Admirals win with defense. They allowed the third fewest goals in the AHL in the regular season. Their penalty kill also ranked third best in the AHL.'They box out hard. I think that's a big thing,' said Guttman. 'It's hard to get to their net fronts. They've got some big D-men that they push you to the outside. So, a big thing for us is we want to get to the inside. We want to take the goalie's eyes away.'That goalie for the Admirals is Matt Murray, one of the best in the league. He made the AHL's postseason All-Star Second Team. He led all AHL goalies in wins with 28. His .932 save percentage also led the league, and his goals against average of 2.07 ranked fourth in the IceHogs counter in goal with Drew Commesso. He was sensational in the series against the Wolves. In the two games he allowed only one goal, and he had 66 IceHogs will have another offensive weapon on the ice for this series that they didn't have in the Chicago series. Colton Dach is ready to play. He missed the last month of the Blackhawks' regular season with a shoulder injury, but he's back and ready to roll now. He says he won't hold back.'My game is very physical, so it's not really going to be too much of a change. I'm coming back from injury, but I'm not going to try and be something I'm not, so I'm going to go out there and play my game, and I think I've been skating a lot, doing a lot of cardio, doing a lot of battles to try and make sure I'm ready.'Guttman is happy to welcome Dach back. 'He brings a ton of value to our group. He's obviously big, strong, and can move. He kind of does it all. So, I think adding him to our group will be really important against a big team like Milwaukee.'NOTE:The IceHogs and Admirals haven't met in a playoff series since first two games of this series Thursday night and Saturday night will be in Milwaukee. Games three and four will be played in Rockford at the BMO next Wednesday and Friday. If a fifth game is needed, that will be played a week from this Sunday in Milwaukee. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Triad students learn about Holocaust differently
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Inside John Haynes' classroom at the Early College at Guilford, every lesson taught is important, but a particular lesson on resistance during the Holocaust feels personal. 'This is an important topic … The direct eyewitnesses are getting older and passing away,' said Haynes, who teaches AP World History. 'It's going to be up to the new generation to be the witness to what happened in the Holocaust.' In June 2024, Haynes was one of 36 public school teachers from across North Carolina selected to participate in an intensive weeklong course on the Holocaust in Poland at no cost to them. The teachers visited numerous sites across Poland over the course of eight days and received 50 to 60 hours of instruction. So has it helped? 'It has … Events like today are an example of that because this is not allotted for in my scope and sequence of this course,' Haynes said. 'It's something that needs to be carved out. Going to Poland and having that experience that we had last summer that's just motivation for that.' The trip was led by retired Greensboro Rabbi Fred Guttman with the idea being that educators who better understand the Holocaust will more effectively teach it to their students. 'In every instance that I know of, they [the teachers] are profoundly affected by it as individuals, and they've managed to find a way to incorporate it into the learning,' Guttman said. 'And that is so incredibly significant.' Guttman has led two summer teacher trips over the past two years with his third coming up in June 2025. Guttman funds the trips to Poland for the teachers through year-round fundraising and generous donations. 'If we do 35 teachers a year, in theory, we would be educating at the end of those three years through the teachers, 20,000 to 25,000 students,' Guttman said. 'And it just grows every year.' The education shines a light on a dark time in history and focuses not only on the murders of six million Jews and millions of others during the Holocaust but also on the stories of those brave enough to stand up to evil. 'I often tell them that at some point, you as a human … need to start thinking, 'What would I do if a situation like this arises again? How will I respond?'' Haynes said. 'Maybe … not take for granted what they do have and understand that it can be lost quickly.' The North Carolina General Assembly passed the Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act in November 2021 mandating Holocaust education in public middle and high schools. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
