Author:Keith Wozniak
Overtime Loss Raises Questions About Home Ice
The Rochester Americans have talked about winning the North Division title all season and Friday night that opportunity likely slipped away from them on home ice. Again. A path to winning the division title was simple – win three straight and it’s theirs. But yet again they played a bad game on home ice in …
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Rochester Americans 2018/2019 Team Awards
Before the start of the last regular season home game the Rochester Americans handed out team awards and Zach Redmond lead the way (no surprise) by winning three of them. 2018/2019 Team Award Winners: Most game winning goals: Zach Redmond and Victor Olofsson (both tied at 9) Rookie of the year and most improved player …
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Zach Redmond Named to AHL First All-Star Team
The American Hockey League announced that Amerks defenseman Zach Redmond has been named to the 2018-2019 AHL First All-Star Team. This is the second year in a row that Redmond has earned the end of season honor. He was named to the AHL Second All-Star Team for the 2017-2018 season. “It’s an honor,” Zach Redmond …
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Amerks Practice Report, Updates, and Quotes
That’s it. Thursday was the last regular season practice for the Rochester Americans of the 2018/2019 season. They’ll have one more morning skate, two road games, and then the playoffs begin. Feels like yesterday we were asking if it was October yet as we waited for the regular season to start. Nathan Paetsch was asked …
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A Confident Victor Olofsson Returns for the Playoffs
Victor Olofsson returned to Rochester this week after getting a taste of the National Hockey League, the place he’ll likely play for the rest of his career when this season is completed. In six games with the Buffalo Sabres he scored two goals, had two assists, and fit right in with the level of play. …
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Amerks Sign Defenseman Justin Baudry
Randy Sexton has already been working at signing depth players for the 2019/2020 season and today it was announced that Justin Baudry signed a one year American Hockey League contract for the 2019-20 season. Kurt Gosselin was recently signed to an AHL deal as well for next season. The Sabres also recently signed Casey Fitzgerald …
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Monsters Defeated by Thompson and Wedgewood
The Rochester Americans defeated the Cleveland Monsters on Monday night to guarantee at least second place in the North Division and continue their push for the first North Division title since the 2004/2005 season. Tage Thompson scored twice and Scott Wedgewood made 36 saves in the 2-1 win for the teams league leading 24th road …
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Amerks First Round Home Ice Playoff Dates
The Rochester Americans defeated the Cleveland Monsters by a 2-1 score on Monday night and with the win they also clinched home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The first round is a best of five series. The Amerks are one point behind the Syracuse Crunch for first place in the North …
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5-2 Bounce Back Win in Syracuse
After a pretty miserable 6-1 loss to the Syracuse Crunch on home ice Friday night Jack Dougherty said, “I think we’ve done a great job all year of bouncing back from particularly ugly losses so I think that’s the plan for tomorrow.” That was the plan for Saturday night and it only took 33 seconds …
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6-1 Win Gives Syracuse the Rivalry Advantage
The Rochester Americans talked all week about focusing on winning a the North Division title but after a 6-1 loss on Friday night those hopes will come down to the next game. Syracuse is now five points ahead of Rochester in the standings but Rochester has a game in hand. If Syracuse wins on Saturday …
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Redmond Returns for a Big Weekend vs Syracuse
The headline is one that should play out until June if everything goes according to plan. That’s a long ways away in but it’s where every hockey team wants to be. The Amerks earned five of six points last week which has set this weekend up for a battle with the Syracuse Crunch for the …
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Recap of the Last 5 Games (Games 66-70)
Welcome to the 14th part of a 15 part season series highlighting the last five games (the last segment will be six games) showing off the stats, standings, highlights, transactions and whatever else took place prior to the next five games. The goal is to post these the day of the next game of a …
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