Graced By Rain

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...

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 c...

Elaine counts down the top five best moments for the Grand Rapids Griffins since the 2026 AHL All-Star Break . She also gives an update on where she's been and on the Griffins Charitable Goals.

On this episode of the “Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”, our host Elaine Shircliff quickly touches on the beauty of Dominik Shine's family celebrating his 500th AHL Game together and the relationship of Shine and Brian Lashoff. --------- TikTok : ⁠@imaraindancer⁠ Youtube :⁠ @gracedbyrain⁠ X: ⁠@GracedByRainPod⁠ BlueSky : ⁠@imaraindancer.bsky.social ⁠Facebook: ⁠ElaineShircliffWriter⁠ ------...

Michael Spruit joins Elaine Shircliff on “Graced By Rain” to discuss the beauty of concerts and the Grand Rapids Griffins.  Spruit is a multimedia creator from Michigan who spent eight years working in professional hockey—first with the Grand Rapids Griffins from 2014 to 2018, where he was part of the team during their 2017 Calder Cup championship run, and then with the Detroit Red Wings from 2018...

On this episode of the “Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”, our host Elaine Shircliff discusses the duality of forward Eduards Tralmaks, Jakub Rychlovsky being a team dad, and the loving souls of Griffins legends Travis Richards, Michel Picard, and Jeff Hoggan.  —-- THE GRIFFINS SHOW JUST HOW RESILIENT THEY ARE + Cossa Returns but Lombardi Gets Injured (EP208) --------- TikTok : ⁠@imaraindancer⁠...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins. On this week’s episode, Elaine discusses how Carter Gylander has been playing since he was reassigned to the Grand Rapids from the Toledo Walleye on November 8th, 2025. She also takes a moment to talk ab...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  On this week’s episode I give you my Top 5 favorite parts of Amanda Lagesson’s interview with the GRG Better Halves.  Lagesson is the wife of Alternate Captain William Lagesson. The GRG Better Halves wa...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  On this week’s episode I dive into the beauty of how defenseman Erik Gustafsson handled his daughter’s Celiacs Diagnosis and dive into my own experience with having a gluten allergy, which is different...

The Grand Rapids Griffins and Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins are off to a blazing hot start to the 2025-26 season. A 5-0 start for the Griffins is the franchise record for hottest start to a season. The only other season they accomplished this feat was 2004-05. The Penguins are on a massive 7-0 streak to start the season. Both have huge games coming up in the last week of October. Their hopes are...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  This weekend, I had a chance to speak with Head Coach Dan Watson and Goaltending Coach Roope Koistinen. During both interviews, they mentioned the importance of staying in the moment and enjoying what i...

Earlier this season, I had Nick Harrington (s6e2) and Travis Focht (S6E5) from Hockeytown West Podcast on to discuss the farm teams of the Detroit Red Wings : the Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) and the Toledo Walleye (ECHL). During the course of our recordings, we realized some of the fun parts would be best in a second episode! Nick and I talked about our love of snacks. Especially the sweet ones. T...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  On this week’s episode, Elaine discusses the beauty of the Griffins' goal songs, the joy of having kids running around the locker room with their parents, and loving the person next to you. Share yo...

Elaine Shircliff continues her series on the anime "Frieren : Beyond Journey's End" with episode 4 "The Land Where Souls Rest." On this episode, Elaine discusses the beauty of sitting with the memories of your lost loved ones. --------- Click ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ to listen to Amalgamation Nation's episode about the entire first season of "Frieren Journey's End". -----...

Scott Findlay of the "3 on 3 Podcast UK" joins Elaine Shircliff to discuss the beauty of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL). They also spend a little bit of time talking about how the "3 on 3 Podcast UK" came to life and why Scott finds peace in podcasting. And don't worry Coventry Blaze fans, there's a bit of old school Blaze chatter on this episode as well. You can fi...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  On this week’s episode, Elaine discusses the beauty of the humility of the Griffins veterans :  Dominik Shine, Sheldon Dries, John Leonard, Austin Watson, Justin Holl, Erik Gustafsson, William Lagesson,...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  This week, Elaine discusses the beauty of the Griffins fans supportive response to Emmitt Finnie, Axel Sandin-Pelikka, and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard making the Detroit Red Wings 23-man roster. Share your...

Elaine Shircliff has Travis Focht of Hockeytown West Podcast on to discuss the beauty of the Toledo Walleye, the ECHL affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings. Attending a game at the Huntington Center, or as fans affectionately refer to it "the Bank Tank", is a high energy and boisterous experience all sports fans need to see live at least once in their lifetime. From the fans to the staff to...

Another Monday, another round of “The Beauty of the Grand Rapids Griffins”. On these segments, our host, Elaine Shircliff, discusses a few things that she found beautiful surrounding the Griffins.  This week, Elaine discusses the beauty of the Griffins during the Detroit Red Wings preseason.  Share your favorite moments from the past week with Elaine at any of her socials below!  --------- TikTok...

Elaine Shircliff continues her series on the anime "Frieren : Beyond Journey's End" with episode 3 "Killing Magic." On this episode, Elaine discusses the beauty of taking the time to get to know someone. ---------Click ⁠here⁠ to listen to Amalgamation Nation's episode about the entire first season of "Frieren Journey's End".--------- TikTok : ⁠@imaraindanc...

Elaine Shircliff is joined by Nick Harrington, co-host of the Hockeytown West Podcast, to discuss the beauty in being credentialed for the first time. Nick walks us through what it was like to hold credentials and be in the Grand Rapids Griffins, the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, locker room during the 2024-25 season. They also discuss the importance of having a great community of content cr...

Our host, Elaine Shircliff, goes over the four things that she found beautiful from the Detroit Red Wings "Red and White Game" that took place at Van Andel Arena on September 21, 2025. The top four consists of moments from Dylan Larkin, Emmitt Finnie, Mo Seider, and Steve Yzerman. Huge shoutout to the Grand Rapids Griffins for being excellent hosts to all the Red Wings fans. --------- Ti...

Welcome to preseason, baby!!! Next week is the start of the sixth season of Graced By Rain. Before I officially kick it into high gear, I thought I would release a preseason episode featuring my newest type of episodes for the 2025-26 season! Hope you enjoy! Be Kind and Love Always <3

On the last episode of season five, Elaine discusses what you can learn from the latest episode of New Heights with Taylor Swift. It can be easy to forget, but it's important to support others and surround yourself with people who support you. You can watch the New Heights episode with Taylor Swift here --------- TikTok : ⁠@imaraindancer⁠ Youtube :⁠ @gracedbyrain ⁠X: ⁠@GracedByRainPod⁠ BlueSky...