The big news out of Amerks practice this morning was that Drew MacIntyre was back on the ice with the team in net after spending some time with the Buffalo Sabres. Â The first thought was maybe they just sent him down for the day but Ron Rolston confirmed that MacIntyre is here for the weekend. …
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After 5pm on Wednesday evening the Buffalo Sabres gave Joe Finley a call and let him know he was being called up from the Rochester Americans to the show just two days after signing an NHL contract with the team. Â Jordan Leopold was injured Tuesday night which created an opening for Big Joe to get …
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The big news out of the Buffalo Sabres on Monday is that they have signed defenseman Joe Finley to a three year two way contract making an NHL salary of $525,000. Â He came to training camp on a tryout and has now signed a National Hockey League contract with the Buffalo Sabres. Â A pretty good …
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Some good news today for the Rochester Americans as Corey Tropp, TJ Brennan and Paul Szczechura were all sent back by the Buffalo Sabres. The Amerks play against the Houston Aero’s and can use all the talent available. The Aero’s have only lost three games in regulation, two in overtime and four in a shootout. …
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On Saturday night Derek Whitmore scored the first hat trick by an Amerk on home ice since Jamie Johnson during the 2009/10 season and was also the first Rochester American since Jason Pominville in 2005 to score four goals in a game. Â Pominville went on to score a fifth in that game. Â The Amerks went …
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Halfway through the Rochester Americans 5-3 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs on Saturday night we saw this short fight below between Joe Finley and Zack Fitzgerald of the Hamilton Bulldogs. Â Fitzgerald partially hit Marcus Foligno with a hip check near center ice and Finley immediately stepped in to drop the gloves with Fitzgerald. Â If Finley …
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The Sabres University should be renamed the Sabres Infirmary (stole it from you Ted) considering how many injuries they’ve encountered so early in the season. Paul Szczechura is the most recent Rochester Americans player to be called up to the Buffalo Sabres. As of writing this no word yet on who he’ll be replacing in …
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There’s one good thing going for the Amerks, they’ve been staying healthy and waiting to get guys back from injury instead of continuing to lose guys like the Buffalo Sabres. The only long term injury at this point is Dennis Persson with no timetable set on his return. It’s possible that Turnbull and Ryan could …
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Heading into the game on Friday night there were low expectations due to the fact that the Amerks had lost another forward to a call up, that player being Zack Kassian. Â That meant the Amerks would be without him, TJ Brennan, Corey Tropp and Drew MacIntyre. Â The Amerks are still without forwards Travis Turnbull, Michael …
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Another Buffalo Sabres game and another injury for the Sabres, this time Robyn Regehr left the game with an “upper body” injury. Â So that means another call up from the Rochester Americans, this time it’s Brayden McNabb who get’s the call to join the team. Â The rookie has played in all 19 games this season …
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There hasn’t been any breaking news out of the Rochester Americans but with the business of Thanksgiving wanted to take time to catch up on everything going on. Besides a few Twitter updates I doubt there’ll be another post until after the game on Friday. Even though most of us will be getting a day …
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The day after Thanksgiving Amerks game is usually a busy one with a lot of people in from out of town and also many people having the day off from work. Â This Friday the Amerks are going to have a teddy bear toss during the first intermission with all of the stuff animals being donated …
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