Rock You Like A...Cyclone

The big news here in Cincy this morning is that our triple A hockey team, the Cincinnati Cyclones, came back from down 3 games to none to win four straight over the Reading Royals to advance to the Kelly Cup finals.

Cincinnati Cyclones center Barret Ehgoetz collected a first period goal and Robert Mayer turned away all 25 shots he faced in a 1-0 victory over the Reading Royals on Wednesday night.

The Cyclones complete their comeback from a 0-3 deficit in the best of seven series to win in the full seven games, having won four straight.

With the victory, the Cyclones advance to the Kelly Cup Finals for the second time in three seasons and will play the Idaho Steelheads for the ECHL championship.  The Cyclones become only the sixth team in pro hockey history to rally from a three games to none deficit to win a best of seven series in the playoffs.  Cincinnati has now gone the distance in all three of the USA Collision Centers postseason rounds to advance.  A full press release on the dates of the games and times will follow shortly.

This was the sixth time in the Kelly Cup playoffs that the Cyclones won a game when a loss would end their season.  In elimination games over the four seasons under Weber, Cincinnati is 9-2.

In a city with the oldest MLB franchise in the country and the Bengals always the talk of the town, it's nice to see the hottest franchise in the city is completely on ice.

Go 'Clones!