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“Beauty of the Chicago  Wolves” is a new series on “Graced By Rain”, featuring Andrew Rinaldi and Elaine Shircliff that drops every other Tuesday during the AHL season.

Andrew and Elaine discuss things we found beautiful about the Wolves organization from the past few weeks. They’ll also throw in a bit of music talk to close out each episode.

On the third episode of the “Beauty of the Chicago Wolves”, Andrew and Elaine discuss:

• What we did for Halloween

• The Wolves Food Packaging Events and November Food Drive

• Importance of Chicago playing a full 60-Minutes

• Gabriel Seger being the beauty play, beauty player, and beauty quote of the past few weeks

• Predictions for the next few games

• Songs we associate with events we have attended

"Beauty of the Chicago Wolves" is a production of "Graced By Rain, LLC"

"Tea Time with Jim and Elaine" is a new series on “Graced By Rain” that drops on the third Wednesday of every month where Jim Biringer and Elaine Shircliff discuss some of the hot gossip around the NHL, AHL, and PWHL.

They will chat about whether the rumor makes sense, will this rumor happen, and what have we heard regarding the rumor.

Jim and Elaine will spend time at the beginning of each episode talking about different aspects of being a member of the media.

On this week’s  episode, Jim Biringer and Elaine Shircliff discuss:

• Our favorite holidays!

• Whether or not things you say about players get back to them

• Drew Doughty and Sidney Crosby are going to play forever

• Moving the Bridgeport Islanders to Hamilton, Ontario

• Elaine loves the messy Columbus Blue Jackets and is done with talking about rumours involving the Red Wings

• and a few other fun thing things

"Tea Time with Jim & Elaine" is a production of "Graced By Rain, LLC"

Welcome back to another edition of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins” where Elaine Shircliff, host of Graced By Rain, talks about a few of the things she found beautiful about the Griffins and the AHL from the past few weeks.

On this week’s episode, Elaine discusses:

• Griffins are running the American Hockey League
• The Cleveland Monsters and Grand Rapids Griffins have an epic and beautiful rivalry
• MORE HAT TRICKS!!!
• Trey Augustine is a lil stitious
• Dan Watson is low key the funniest coach you will ever meet

.Photo Credit: Grand Rapids Griffins/Nicholas Carrillo

You can buy Elaine's book "U Go" on Amazon.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

"Beauty of the Chicago Wolves" is a new series on “Graced By Rain”  featuring Andrew Rinaldi and Elaine Shircliff that drops every other Tuesday during the AHL season. 

Andrew and Elaine will discuss things we found beautiful about the Wolves organization from the past few weeks.

They'll also throw in a little bit of music talk to close out each episode. 

On the second episode of the Beauty of the Chicago Wolves, Andrew and Elaine discuss:

- Adopt-A-Dog Night and the incredible Season of Giving the Wolves are doing during the 2026-27 season

- The  Sweep of the Iowa Wild

- How well Stiven Sardarian played

- Andrew talks about the CastleRat concert he just attended.

- And much more!

"Beauty of the Chicago Wolves" is a production of "Graced By Rain, LLC"

Welcome back to another edition of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins” where Elaine Shircliff, host of Graced By Rain, talks about a few of the things she found beautiful about the Griffins and the AHL from the week before.

 On this week's episode she discusses:

• The Griffins first 3-in-3 of the season
• Jesse Kiiskinen's phenomenal Sunday
• Elaine wrote a song!
• Dan Watson's 400th Win
• Dominik Shine's 100th Goal
• and much more!

You can purchase Elaine 's book, "U Go", on Amazon.---------

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

"Beauty of the Chicago Wolves" is a new series on “Graced By Rain” featuring Andrew Rinaldi and Elaine Shircliff that drops every other Tuesday during the AHL season.

Andrew and Elaine will discuss things we found beautiful about the Wolves organization from the past few weeks. They'll also throw in a little bit of music talk to close out each episode.

Don't worry! Future episodes will only be 30-45 minutes long. We took a long walk down memory lane on episode one.

On the inaugural episode, Andrew and Elaine discuss:

• Why we keep coming back to cover the Chicago Wolves
• Our favorite memories during our time covering the team
• Lindsey Wilhite!
• Chicago's opening weekend in Manitoba
• Beauty Play and Beauty Players
• What we are currently listening to
• and so much more!

"Beauty of the Chicago Wolves" is a production of "Graced By Rain, LLC"

Previously Released on 09/16/2026

"Tea Time with Jim and Elaine" is a new series on “Graced By Rain” that drops on the third Wednesday of every month where Jim Biringer and Elaine Shircliff discuss some of the hot gossip around the NHL, AHL, and PWHL. They will chat about whether the rumor makes sense, will this rumor happen, and what have we heard regarding the rumor.

Jim and Elaine will spend time at the beginning of each episode talking about different aspects of being a member of the media.

On the inaugural episode, Jim Biringer and Elaine Shircliff discuss:

• why sources are important and who sources can be

• the different types of sources

• the Detroit Red Wings search for a GM and how they've handled the flow of information (the lack of flow)

• Adam Fantilli and Don Waddell are extremely patient

• and a few other things

"Tea Time with Jim & Elaine" is a production of "Graced By Rain, LLC"

In the last episode of season six of Graced By Rain Podcast, Brandon Cooke of  ⁨@hockeytownwpod⁩  joined Elaine Shircliff to discuss the beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins 30th season and the history of the Griffins. They also threw in a little music and concert talk.

Welcome back to another edition of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins” where Elaine Shircliff, host of Graced By Rain, talks about a few of the things she found beautiful about the Griffins and the AHL from the week before. 

On this week's episode she discusses:

• Trey Fix-Wolansky’s successful weekend

• Jakob Pelletier winning the John B. Sollenberger Award

• Predicting how the Play-In/First Round of the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs will turn out

• Dylan James’ phenomenal Sunday night

• Sebastian Cossa  and Michal Postava winning the Harry “Hap” Holmes Award

• The Griffins’ Charitable Goals Update

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Graced By Rain LLC is run by Elaine Shircliff out of Michigan. The purpose of “Graced By Rain” is to highlight the beauty in life. You can read articles, blog posts, and creative writing posts, on ⁠GracedByRain.com⁠.

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The Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) are the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings (NHL). They play out of Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and finished the 2025-26 regular season second in the AHL.

Welcome back to another edition of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins” where Elaine Shircliff, host of Graced By Rain, talks about a few of the things she found beautiful about the Griffins from the week before. 

On this week's episode she discusses:

• Beauty around the AHL

• The excitement of having Wojciech Stachowiak since he was traded to the Griffin in March

• The youth have entered the chat!! 

• Eddie Genborg is Grand Rapids’ version of Kimi Antonelli

• Jenn Watson, Austin Watson’s wife, put up a series of beautiful TikToks where she got vulnerable and real about who she is, where she's been in life, and the type of person she is trying to be moving forward.

• Good guy Amadeus Lombardi winning the Man of the Year Award for the Griffins