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Amerks Home Attendance Numbers Since 2005
Attendance at Rochester Americans games has been a topic of discussion for die hard fans and everyone else when pictures emerge of an empty arena on a Wednesday night (as the featured picture shows which is from October 30, 2019). The numbers had been deceiving for years until Curt Styres bought the team from Steve …
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Amerks Announce 2019-2020 Promotion Schedule
The Amerks announced the promotional scheduled for the 2019-2020 season and is more or less similar to previous years. Two highlights from the announcement is an appearance from Buffalo Bills legend and Hall of Famer Jim Kelly on January 24th and a fan’s choice bobblehead on March 20th. Other giveaways include a magnet schedule on …
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Amerks Sign Boomhower and Hora to AHL Contracts
The Amerks announced today that they signed forward Shaw Boomhower and defenseman Frank Hora (from Amherst, NY) to American Hockey League contracts. Two players that will be heading to the Cincinnati Cyclones when the season starts. Two players that will be a tremendous help to the Cyclones as they work to build off a great …
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Details on the Amerks 2019-2020 Schedule
The American League announced schedules today for the 2019-2020 season which means it’s time to break down the Rochester Americans schedule and see how many times they play the same teams. Rochester opens the season at home Friday October 4 against Syracuse and finishes the season Saturday April 11, 2020 on the road in Binghamton. …
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Sabres Re-Sign CJ Smith to a Two-Year Contract
The Buffalo Sabres announced that restricted free agent CJ Smith has signed his two-year qualifying offer with an annual average salary of $700,000. CapFriendly updated the terms to show that the first year is a two-way deal and second year is one-way. The first year minor salary is $100,000 and second year is one-way meaning …
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Dalton Smith Returns to Rochester for a Third Season
It wasn’t the signing anyone was expecting on the morning of free agency but the Rochester Americans surprised us by announcing that Dalton Smith would be returning for a third season in Rochester. There’s little that needs to be said about Dalton Smith. He’s an old school player that provides muscle and time and space …
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Amerks 2019-2020 Home Opener and Five Other Dates
The Calder Cup and Stanley Cup playoffs are still underway but at least we can already start to look towards the next Rochester Americans season. The team announced this afternoon that the home opener for the 2019-2020 season and 64th season in franchise history will be Friday October 4, 2019. They announced six guaranteed home …
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Amerks First Round Home Ice Playoff Dates
The Rochester Americans defeated the Cleveland Monsters by a 2-1 score on Monday night and with the win they also clinched home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The first round is a best of five series. The Amerks are one point behind the Syracuse Crunch for first place in the North …
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Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 1
Welcome to the first episode of a new weekly Amerks podcast on Beyond The Blade between myself, Keith Wozniak, and Chad DeDominicis from Die By the Blade. If you’re on this site you’re probably familiar with Die By the Blade as a Sabres site. We’ll be recapping the Amerks previous games, games ahead, who’s good, who’s bad, …
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Amerks Hockey Returns – Training Camp and Preseason Schedule
The long off season is finally over and we have the training camp and preseason schedules for Rochester Americans hockey. Training camp will start on Monday September 24, 2018 at Bill Gray’s Iceplex in Rochester. The first preseason game will be Thursday September 27, 2018 at HarborCenter in Buffalo. We’ll see new names along with returning …
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Amerks 2018/2019 Schedule Announced
The American Hockey League released the 2018/2019 schedule on Wednesday afternoon and the Rochester Americans will start the season at home with back to back games on October 5 and 6 vs Charlotte. The last home game of the season will be Friday April 12 vs Binghamton. Here’s the breakdown of home games: 20 Friday night …
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Amerks Outlook: Interview on Die By The Blade
The 2017/2018 Amerks season has been over for what feels like an eternity already so it was a good time to jump back into some thoughts on the season and what’s ahead. I answered some questions about the culture change, Alexander Nylander (compared him to Marek Zagrapan), players to keep an eye on and who …
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