Newfoundland's Colin Greening wins his second Calder Cup as Toronto Marlies claim AHL crown

St. John’s native Colin Greening is a two-time Calder Cup winner after helping the Toronto Marlies capture their first-ever American Hockey League championship.
The Marlies defeated the Texas Stars 6-1 Thursday night in the seventh and deciding game of an AHL final played at Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto.
The 32-year-old Greening was a professional rookie with the Binghamton Senators who won the Calder Cup in 2011. Today, in contrast, he’s the assistant captain and second-oldest player on the Marlies, younger than teammate and fellow forward Chris Mueller by just three days.
Greening had four goals, five assists and a plus-eight rating in 20 Calder Cup playoff games with Toronto, following up on a regular season that saw him register 16 goals, 13 assists and a rating of plus nine in 73 outings.
Greening is one of seven players from Newfoundland and Labrador to be part of an AHL championship team and now joins Grand Falls-Windsor native Don Howse, who won back-to-back Calder Cups with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in 1976 and 1977, as the only two-time Calder Cup winners from the province.
 
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This was the first Calder Cup to go the full distance since 2003 … You have to go back much further than that for the last time a Maple Leafs farm team won a Calder Cup. That was in 1982, when the New Brunswick Hawks, who were actually the shared affiliate of the Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks, took the crown. The New Brunswick lineup that season included Russ Adam, the Windsor, Ont., native who has lived in St. John’s for the last three decades ever since starring with the Newfoundland Senior Hockey League Capitals and is the father of former NHLer Luke Adam.