What we have here folks is a nice three game winning streak! Â The Amerks played 60 minutes of hockey where we saw them come back from a two goal deficit to defeat the Syracuse Crunch 3-2 in a shootout on Tuesday night. Â Jacob Lagace scored the first goals for the Amerks followed by the tying …
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The Rochester Americans finish up their stretch of four games in six nights when they host the Syracuse Crunch at 7:05pm at Blue Cross Arena. The Amerks are .500 right now at 2-2 and the Crunch are undefeated 2-0. After losing their first two games of the season being outscored 10-3 the Amerks have won …
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The Amerks announced today that they’ll have 11 home games televised on Time Warner Cable SportsNet, a big difference from every game that’s been televised in recent seasons. Â Whether or not having all games on TV helped or hurt the team is a discussion that could go on forever. Â The games will be on Channel …
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It’s amazing how one solid hockey game can put another one in the past, even if there’s only four games played on the season. Â The Rochester Americans on Sunday evening showed what they can be capable of when all of the right pieces fall into place with a 7-2 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins. …
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It’s time for everyone to guess the legality of this hit that the Rochester Americans Corey Tropp delivered to Landon Ferraro of the Grand Rapids Griffins. Â Mitch Callahan of the Griffins went down the ice on a breakaway and as the play followed behind him you’ll see Tropp and Ferraro meet in front of the …
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During the third period of the Amerks 7-2 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins this fight broke out on the ice. Foligno was being given a boarding penalty for a hit just before this fight broke out. Marcus Foligno vs Travis Ehrhardt on one side, Zack Kassian vs Garnet Exelby on the other. Late at …
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The Amerks are coming off of their first win on the season on Friday night when they defeated the Lake Erie Monsters by the score of 3-1. Â The team played a better game offensively connecting more passes which resulted in less costly turnovers. The Griffins and Pirates didn’t play each other at all last season …
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Rochester American’s winger Riley Boychuck is a rookie that will have a lot of work ahead of him to move up the prospect charts but here’s one Portland Winterhawk (WHL) fan that gives him a lot of praise. Boychuck is expected to be a gritty winger that isn’t going to be afraid to hit someone. …
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Without anything Rochester Americans related to write about this morning I thought I’d take a minute to share some links to other blogs out in cyberspace covering AHL teams, much like I cover the Amerks here. We’re all unique in how we cover our teams but all hold one thing in common, being passionate about the …
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The Amerks played it simple, score goals to take a lead instead of trying to play catch up and it resulted in their first win of the season. Â Once the team had the lead they definitely appeared to play with more confidence than as seen during the first two games of the season. Greg Mauldin …
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The Rochester Americans are about to face off against the Lake Erie Monsters, you can listen to the game live on WHTK 1280AM 107.3FM or whtk.com. Â Both teams have lost their first two games and are looking for their first win of the season. Â In two losses the Amerks have have tallied an amazing 10 …
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The game that was played for 60 minutes on the ice pretty much speaks for itself. Â The team was outplayed by a more skilled Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins team. Â Going into further detail really won’t accomplish much and does anyone really want to discuss it further? Â It’s only two games into the season, there’s absolutely no reason …
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