The Charlotte Checkers have clinched a spot in the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs. This marks the sixth consecutive season that the team has qualified for the American Hockey League postseason.
At the start of March, Mitch Vande Sompel was patrolling the blue line for the last-place Chicago Wolves. A month later and he has jumped straight onto a Checkers squad that is catching fire down the stretch and eyeing a postseason run.
