Tag:Alex Nylander
Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 4
Welcome to the fourth episode of our Amerks weekly podcast on Beyond The Blade between myself, Keith Wozniak, and Chad DeDominicis from Die By the Blade. It’s a short podcast where we discuss what’s currently going on with the team and what’s happened since the previous episode. This week we talk about the Taylor Fedun trade, Alex …
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Inside the Final 89 Seconds of Friday Night
After tying a league record for 29 overtime games and getting being swept in the first round of the playoffs last season the Rochester Americans coaching staff consisting of Chris Taylor, Gord Dineen and Toby Petersen knew they had to make some adjustments. There’s development for coaches as much as there is for players and …
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Taylor Fedun Traded to Dallas Stars
A day off for the Amerks has turned into a day of packing for Taylor Fedun. The Buffalo Sabres traded Fedun on Saturday afternoon to the Dallas Stars for a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2020 NHL draft. If Fedun plays in at least 25 games with the Dallas Stars (regular season or playoffs) this season …
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Redmond, Nylander and Bailey Lead the Way. Again.
The key to success for an American League team is a mix of prospects, in-betweeners and veterans and those are the players that carried the Amerks to another win on Friday night in Rochester. Big plays from Alex Nylander, a burst of speed and goal from Justin Bailey and veteran defense Zach Redmond scored his …
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Team Effort Leads Amerks to a Dominating Win
The Rochester Americans played one of their best team games in a dominating 5-2 win on Thursday night in Buffalo in a battle for first place. Heading into the night the Cleveland Monsters were two points behind the Amerks in the standings making it a four point game. The Amerks now have a four point …
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Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 3
Welcome to the third episode of our Amerks Weekly podcast on Beyond The Blade between myself, Keith Wozniak, and Chad DeDominicis from Die By the Blade. We’re getting into a groove to make sure this really is every week. This week we talk about Zach Redmond, consistency and the lack of for some players, being an elite …
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Poor First Period Ends the Amerks Point Streak
It only took five seconds for the game on Friday night to get off to a rough start and it didn’t get any better the rest of the first period. Hershey scored three in the first, Rochester didn’t score until the third period when it was too late and there’s your game summary. Kevin Porter …
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Comets were Smoked by the Shot Blocking Amerks
The Rochester Americans started the season being known as a tough team to play against and after smoking the Comets out of the building in the ninth game of the season they may be at that point. In five of the six wins this season Rochester has lit up the scoreboard with four or more …
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Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 2
Welcome to the second episode of a new weekly Amerks podcast on Beyond The Blade between myself, Keith Wozniak, and Chad DeDominicis from Die By the Blade. Due to scheduling we missed a week but the plan is to make this a weekly thing. This week we talk about a team that has won five of their …
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Olofsson and Redmond Lead the Amerks to a 6-1 Win
The Rochester Americans red hot power play continued in Utica on Wednesday night contributing four of the six goals scored leading to a 6-1 win over the Comets and extending the winning streak to four games. The last two games for Utica were 5-3 and 7-4 wins over Toronto. The defense did a great job limiting …
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The Last Five (Games 1-5)
Welcome to a new series I have planned through the rest of the season in which I’ll highlight the last five games (the last segment will be six games) showing off the stats, standings, highlights, transactions and whatever else took place prior to the next five games. The goal is to post these the day …
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Olofsson Leads Amerks to Two Comeback Wins
The Amerks took care of some firsts of the season over the weekend and were rewarded with four points in the standings. Down by two goals on Saturday they came back to win 4-3 with goals from CJ Smith, Alex Nylander and the game winner from Victor Olofsson. Sunday afternoon they were down 2-1 going …
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