The Detroit Red Wings have a nice group of “four A” players in Grand Rapids. The term “four A” is more of a baseball term which means a player is a top minor league player but hasn’t been able to find his way just yet in the show. An “inbetweener” so to speak. Some players play their entire career in the minors.
First a little bit of Grand Rapids Griffins history. The Griffins were actually the minor league club for the Ottawa Senators before the Detroit Red Wings. The Griffins merged into the AHL league in 2001.