The game started out miserable and some season ticket holders told us that they left early (for valid reasons) but the Rochester Americans found a way to erase a three goal deficit and won the game 4-3 in overtime thanks to two late goals by Nick Baptiste in the third period and the overtime winner …
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The Amerks are back at home tonight for the second game of a home and home with Laval Rocket, the farm team of the Montreal Canadiens. The Amerks won a 5-2 game on Wednesday night in Laval. An early unfortunate bounce gave the Rocket an early lead but the Amerks didn’t back off. Chris Taylor …
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After the Friday morning gameday skate, Brendan Guhle said it was key for the Amerks to start fast. Hopefully tonight they can focus on 60 minutes of good hockey instead. After getting out to an early 2-0 lead, Rochester surrendered five straight goals agains a very good Checkers team. Charlotte did a phenomenal job applying …
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Another day and another move, the Sabres have called up Zach Redmond, the best performing defenseman on the Amerks roster so far. In four games played Redmond has 1 goal, 2 assists and is a plus 2. The Sabres placed Josh Gorges on injured reserve to open up a roster spot for Redmond. He’ll join …
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The Amerks collapsed again and lost 5-2 against the Charlotte Checkers on Friday night and head coach Chris Taylor didn’t hold back saying, “I know it’s a process, I know what happened last year and… but… that’s not acceptable.” (Featured photo from Amerks.com) Adam Krause and Zach Redmond scored their first goals of the season to …
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The Amerks are home tonight versus the Charlotte Checkers for the first of four games this season between the two teams. This is only the fourth game of the season for the Amerks and the roster has already had some changes. Nathan Paetsch is out for weeks with a lower body injury. Taylor Fedun joins …
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The first month of the hockey season isn’t close to being over and there’s already a list of injuries and transactions. Defenseman Taylor Fedun was called up by the Buffalo Sabres today and to make room for him on the roster they placed center Jacob Josefson on injured reserve. (Photo credit: Amerks.com) In three games …
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The Amerks added some more experience to the blue line on Thursday by signing Stuart Percy to a professional tryout. He has a combined 226 games between the AHL & NHL which gives the team more experience on the blue line without counting against The AHL’s ridiculous vet limit. Percy was drafted 25th by the …
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USA Hockey announced the roster for Team USA headed to the Deutschland Cup tournament in Germany from November 10-12th and it includes some former Rochester Americans along with Rochester native Brian Gionta. This is a lead up to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea as players try to make the final cut to compete …
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The team was on the ice at Bill Gray’s Iceplex this morning for a long practice after a disappointing game on Friday night. They made use of two sheets of ice without a break like they have had at the War Memorial during a dry scrape. Finished up on rink 4, walked to rink 1 …
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The Buffalo Sabres made the first call up of the season this morning by asking Justin Bailey to hop on a cross country flight to join the team in Anaheim. Kyle Okposo is sick and with the Sabres are struggling for offense they hope he’ll provide a spark. Bailey has scored two goals in three …
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Friday night the Amerks played a very underwhelming brand of hockey against the Comets. Zone entry was once again very sloppy, and they weren’t able to dig pucks out well either. Chemistry continues to be an issue for this new roster, and swapping Baptise and Moses on the first two lines only seemed to worsen …
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