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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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Houston wins AHL championship with Game 7 win over Hamilton
Thursday June 12, 2003
HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) Rickard Wallin and Stephane Veilleux
scored as the Houston Aeros won the Calder Cup with a 3-0 victory
over the Hamilton Bulldogs in Game 7 on Thursday night.
Johan Holmqvist won chosen as the playoff MVP award after
recording his first shutout of the postseason. The Aeros won their
first American Hockey League championship in the team's second
season.
Clinging to a 2-0 in the third period, Holmqvist made a nice toe
save on Bulldogs defenseman Ron Hainsey and later stopped Raffi
Torres in close.
Rastislav Pavlikovsky made it 3-0 with a power-play goal at
14:38 of the third period.
An AHL record crowd of 17,428 was in attendance.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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