By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Apr 26, 2016 at 9:03 PM

The Admirals won't be coming back for more AHL playoff games – or any games, for that matter – at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.

After dropping the first two Central Division Semifinals contests at home in their best-of-five series against the Griffins, Milwaukee lost Game 3 in Grand Rapids, 4-1, and was swept out of the Calder Cup Playoffs on Tuesday night.

The Admirals, who recently signed a 10-year lease with the Wisconsin Center District, are moving next season to the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, which will receive $6.3 million in upgrades. The Admirals had to find a new home because the Milwaukee Bucks' plans for their new NBA arena didn't include the hockey team and the Bradley Center will be demolished after the new venue is completed in 2018.

The fun-loving Admirals' final regular-season home game at the Bradley Center, a 5-2 loss to Bakersfield, which ended the franchise-record-tying 13-game points streak, was a nostalgic, event-filled occasion on April 15. Milwaukee, as Central Division champs, then hosted the first two games of its semifinal series against Grand Rapids, losing by scores of 3-1 and 2-1, respectively. 

After again scoring just once against the Griffins on Tuesday, the Admirals extended their offensively impotent streak of notching two or fewer goals to 14 straight postseason games. The defeat at Grand Rapids was also Milwaukee's seventh straight playoff loss, dating back to 2013.

Thanks to an Adam Payerl score late in the first period, the Admirals had a 1-0 lead in Game 3. But the Griffins netted four unanswered goals to get the win and advance to face the Lake Erie Monsters in the second round. 

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.