SABRES ASSIGN 11 PLAYERS TO ROCHESTER BUFFALO, N.Y. (September 23, 2011) — Buffalo Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier announced today the team has assigned the following 11 players to the Rochester Americans (AHL): Forwards Riley Boychuk,Jacob Lagace,Maxime Legault,Shawn Szydlowski,Travis Turnbull and Mark Voakes; Defensemen AlexBiega,Nick Crawford,Corey Fienhage and Matt MacKenzie; Goaltender Jeff Jakaitis.
The 2011/2012 Rochester Americans hockey season will officially start on Monday September 26th when they open training camp at 1pm inside of Blue Cross Arena. The opening day of camp is open to the public so if you have the day off, stop on down. The only other news is that there are still 52 …
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Gladiators Coach John Wroblewski gave this three minute interview talking about the new affiliation with the Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans. Â A few of interesting bits from it.. He said that the Sabres had been in talks with the Gladiators for some time saying that with the new ownership group they’re very dedicated to putting …
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The Gwinnett Gladiators have announced that they added the Buffalo Sabres as a second affiliate for the 2011/2012 season. Â The other affiliate is the Phoenix Coyotes. Â One of the primary benefits to having an ECHL affiliate is the ability to sign players to minor league contracts and having a set place for them to play …
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The first round of cuts happened this afternoon at Buffalo Sabres training camp but none yet that will be seeing any time in a Rochester Americans uniform.  Here’s the list of cuts: BUFFALO, N.Y. (September 20, 2011) – Buffalo Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier announced today the team has returned the following 10 players to …
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The start of the Rochester Americans season is less than three weeks away so it’s time to start pushing out the news and information! Â Training camp officially opened in Buffalo on Saturday and the big news there was that Teppo Numminen was hired as an assistant coach to help play a role in the development …
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If you’re a Rochester Americans fan and don’t have season tickets or at least a 10 or 20 game package let me ask you, why? Â You can’t go wrong at $10 a game for a season ticket. Â Back to the topic, individual game tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10am and Blue Cross Arena …
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Just a quick note to mention that there’ll be some hockey on TV tonight when the Amerks play against the Whale for the Traverse City Championship. The Amerks have already defeated the Houston Aero’s (recap) and Springfield Falcons (recap) while losing one game to the Grand Rapids Griffins (recap). The Amerks have been in Traverse City for …
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The March 24, 2012 away game for the Rochester Americans in Syracuse had high hopes of being played inside of the Carrier Dome but that has been cancelled for this season, they’ll now begin work on it happening for the 2012/2013 season. Â The Crunch lost the date to a softball game as they still had …
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It’s been a slow end to the month of August for any type of real hockey news but thanks to USA Hockey we’ve officially learned that Chadd Cassidy will be one of two Rochester Americans assistant coaches. How was Cassidy chosen for the job? I think that’s a simple answer, he worked as an assistant …
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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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The American Hockey League released the full schedule for all 30 teams this afternoon, Rochester Americans included. Â The first date noticed is the home opener on October 13, 2011 against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Â Another date that quickly sticks out is March 24, 2012 when they play in Syracuse which is the potential date for the …
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