The Rochester Americans have announced the 2010-2011 training camp roster which brings in a whole group of new faces and names that we’ll get to know. That also means a number of players that were on last years team are not returning. There’s always a lot of changes over the summer with American Hockey League …
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Here’s the camp roster, hold the excitement! Sarcasm aside, it’s typical for a training camp roster to make you ask who half the players are. One name that may look familiar is Tommy Goebel. He played in five games at the end of the 07-08 season with the Amerks and tallied two goals and three …
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In two not so surprising moves, Clay Wilson was put on the waiver wire by the Florida Panthers to be assigned to the Rochester Americans. It’s not likely that another team will pick him up. Tyler Arnason was released from his tryout with the Florida Panthers. There had been some thought he would be assigned …
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When it was announced that the Florida Panthers were going to play a preseason game against the Boston Bruins a lot of people talked about how dumb it was and that no one would care. I think Thursday night proved that a lot of people did care (over 4,700) and a lot of people had …
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The Florida Panthers put on a very entertaining game on Thursday night in their victory over the Boston Bruins in the preseason game. Andrew Peters is trying to prove he still has what it takes to play in the NHL and early in the first period he dropped the gloves with Lane MacDermid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-6S0O8nqQo Share …
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Unless someone gets hurt, the projected lineups for tonights Panthers vs Bruins game are below. Being a fan of goalies, Tomas Vokoun vs Tuukka Rask is a treat. Florida Panthers: David Booth – Stephen Weiss – Michael Frolik Christopher Higgins – Steven Reinprecht – Cory Stillman Kenndal McArdle – Marty Reasoner – Byron Bitz Andrew …
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As much as I love the summer time, there’s no better way to spend the first day of fall than inside of Blue Cross Arena watching some hockey. The Panthers finished up their morning skate and now it’s the Bruins turn on the ice. Tuukka Rask will be getting the start in net for the …
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Tonight is the NHL preseason game between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins at Blue Cross Arena and if you’re still undecided about going, I thought I’d share some reasons to go. If you decide you want tickets, call the Amerks office at (585) 454-5335. Ticket prices? Yea, you can see those here. 10. It’s …
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Thursday night will be the first game for Andrew Peters in a Florida Panthers uniform and I’ll come right out and say here’s hoping to see him headline a fight at center ice. There’s no question that Peters is working to earn a full time with the Panthers and one way he’ll need to do …
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Springfield, MA – (From TheAHL.com) The American Hockey League’s Board of Governors approved several measures at its Semi-Annual Meeting, held today in downtown Springfield. The format for the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs has been approved and will not change from last season, featuring a divisional playoff format leading to conference finals and ultimately the Calder …
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I’ve uploaded the pictures to Facebook and Twitter but realized that not everyone checks those two places so I’ll post them here as well. One big change from last season (thanks for pointing it out Mark!) is that the logo at center ice is one large logo, not two smaller ones. No, I wasn’t paid …
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Over the summer of 2010 a news article was published somewhere out of Russia where Evgeny Dadonov was quoted as saying if he didn’t play in the NHL that he was going to play in the KHL instead. Well, turns out that’s incorrect and he’ll stay in North America to play this season. Whether it’s …
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