When the final horn sounded, members of the Quad-City Mallards were on the ice smiling and hugging, more jubilant than normal following a mid-January game. For the first time in over a month, they ...

Whether treacherous or victorious, there's a turning point to every season, but those momentous moments in time can only be identified through hindsight when the final horn sounds. Everything up until ...

The Quad-City Mallards had seen this script a time or two: Mallards lead late, take a suspect penalty, surrender a game-tying power-play goal, and then go on to shootout disappointment.