Springfield Needs Another Rally: Do They Have It In Them?

Can they rally again and keep this incredible run going? It’s the story of the Springfield Thunderbirds season and their playoff run. They were on the brink of elimination after their first game of the Calder Cup Playoffs, with an 8-1 loss to the Charlotte Checkers, yet won back-to-back games to advance to the next round.

This role is nothing new for the Thunderbirds, a team that revels in the underdog role and keeps fighting until the final whistle. “They're a well-coached team. Their coach has them playing hard, and they've battled through a lot of adversity in the first couple of rounds to get into the playoffs.

So they've been through it,” Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins forward Avery Hayes noted after Game Two. The Penguins have a 2-1 series lead, and the Thunderbirds once again hope to pull off a series upset, starting with a bounce-back in Game Four. Springfield’s Game 2 Comeback is the Story of Their Season “We got the recipe for the way we needed to play.

We saw it in the third, and we saw it in overtime,” Steve Ott It won’t be easy, and the Penguins look like the team that’s figured them out. The Checkers and Providence Bruins were two of the best teams in the American Hockey League but had no answers for the new-look Thunderbirds. The Penguins have those answers, and it’s what makes Game Four a pivotal one for the Thunderbirds to adjust.