The loss for the Admirals was only their sixth at home this season and the first time they have fallen in eight midweek games.
The Griffins got the only goal of the first period when Ondrej Becher’s shot at 5:35 beat Milwaukee netminder Magnus Chrona for a 1-0 lead.
Grand Rapids scored three in a row to start the second period with scores from Eduards Tralmaks at 3:52, former Admiral Austin Watson at 5:24 and finally from Tyler Angle at 9:19, giving them a 4-0 cushion.
Svechkov finally got the ads on the board when he scored his first of the season after taking an outlet pass from Isaac Ratcliffe to beat Sebastian Cossa by five with 24 seconds left in the second. The goal snapped a 159:36 goalless drought against the Griffins. Milwaukee lost any momentum from the Svechkov count when the Griffins’ Sheldon Dries scored his 16th of the season with a power-play marker just 21 seconds into the third period.
L’Heureux grabbed the second goal of the game for Ads at 10:22 of the third when he intercepted a clearing attempt by the Griffins and fired a wrister that beat Cossa to the glove side for his 12th goal of the year.
The Admirals host Rockford at Panther Arena on Saturday night at 6 p.m. in their final game before the AHL All-Star break.
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