In boxing, it’s often said that styles make fights. Two fighters who like to stand in front of each other and just throw punches is going to be way more exciting than two defensive counter-punchers ducking and weaving all night. In hockey, the same can be true. For fifty-nine minutes and thirty seconds of Game Five, the Kalamazoo Wings evenly matched their physical style of play against the transition style of the Toledo Walleye. Unfortunately AJ Jenks found a little daylight with twenty-three seconds left to propel the Walleye to a 3-2 victory.
Kalamazoo established their style early.