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Keith Wozniak

Amerks News Stories this Week: Salaries, Coaches, Schedule, Videos

It’s a Friday afternoon and there’s a few different Amerks related news items that were either posted this week or were out there but not posted here.  Anyways, in case you missed it here’s a way to catch up on Rochester Americans related news items from this past week or so.  This covers everything from …
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1996 Video Highlighting Amerks Calder Cup Win

In 1995 the Rochester Americans home opener was October 13.  They went on to win the 1996 Calder Cup.  In 2011 the Amerks home opener is October 13th. A championship isn’t won off of one date but given hockey superstitions can’t hurt to point it out.  The Amerks defeated the Portland Pirates in seven games …
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The American Dream The Drive for Five 1987 Calder Cup Video

There really aren’t enough words that could describe this video from WHEC highlighting the Rochester Americans 1986/1987 Calder Cup Championship season, you need to just watch it.  Working on getting more classics like this online to share.  There’s so many classic Amerks videos out there that have never been seen by most of us “newer” fans. …
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Amerks 1983 Calder Cup Championship Highlights

The Rochester Americans won their fourth Calder Cup in 1983 and just from the start of the video it’s interesting to see some similarities nearly 30 years later.  The beginning of the video talks about Scott Bowman and the “youth movement” of the Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans, gone were the high scoring veterans and …
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Tortorella, Nichol, Biron and Highlights from the Sharky Memorial Classic

The Craig Charron Memorial Classic on Sunday in Rochester was a great time for many reasons.  The two obvious reasons being the meaning behind the benefit and also the great hockey game in early August featuring so many great players.  At the start of the game John Tortorella and Scott Nichol gave two speeches which …
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Official Amerks Suggestion Box is Open

The Rochester Americans under Terry Pegula ownership have opened up their suggestion box to tell them what you think.  The topics listed are Arena, Broadcast, Concessions, Game Presentation, Merchandise, Parking, Tickets, Web Site and other.  They did the same thing when they purchased the Buffalo Sabres and changes were immediately seen.  They care about the fans …
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