After beating the Wilkes Barre/Scranton Penguins tonight, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms have made the Calder Cup Playoffs.
It was a long time coming; 2008-09 was the last time they made the playoffs. Since that season, an era of sub-0.500 play wreaked the the top farm team of the Philadelphia Flyers, with their best year being the 2011-12 season (they had a .513 winning percentage then).
This also marks the first time the Lehigh Valley will see playoff hockey in the Phantoms’ third season of playing in Allentown. Before then, they played five seasons in the Adirondacks (Glenn Falls, NY, to be exact).