Tag:Buffalo
Scouting Report – 12/2/16 – Cole Schneider
By Dennis Allen, Jr. The Amerks were able to hang on by the skin of their teeth tonight against the Toronto Marlies for a 3-2 victory. Rochester played an amazing first period, but after that, they didn’t look very sharp. Tonight’s game was flooded with special teams play: It honestly felt like there was no …
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Scouting Report – 11/25/16 – Tyler Strachan
By Dennis Allen, Jr. Friday’s 5-2 loss to the Comets was disappointing on many levels. The roster lacked the forward depth to allow Rochester to compete for a full 60 minutes. In what has developed into a common trend for the Amerks, there was almost no physical play. Nick Baptiste was the one bright spot …
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Scouting Report – 11/23/16 – Erik Burgdoerfer
By Dennis Allen, Jr. There were a lot of questions facing how the Amerks would perform tonight after the recent call ups of Cole Schneider and Cal O’Reilly. They looked very much like an undermanned roster playing without a captain. In O’Reilly, Schneider and Fedun, the Amerks were missing their top 3 point scorers this …
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Season 61 – Preview
(10/13 PM Update) For the third summer in the last 4 years, the Amerks roster looks good…ON PAPER. “Blah Blah Blah”, “Yeah, whatever”, and “So what”. I hear you, guys. But it’s October – so I’m going to put on my hopeful and optimistic mask for the time being. I was excited about Cunneyworth returning …
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Time flies regardless
5 seasons have passed since the Sabres purchased and re-affiliated with the Amerks. Â While the on-ice product has been mostly miserable and sometimes embarrassing this last half-decade, there have been some players I’ve enjoyed watching here over that time period. Â Here are 10Â (and why) in no particular order: Â Freddie Roy – A throwback to the …
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No excuses this season
It’s over. Â One of the more disappointing seasons of at least the past 35 years has mercifully finished. This isn’t last year’s team who could say Buffalo’s tanking devastated their roster. Â It’s not a season like 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 or 2013-2014 where significant injuries both here and above (Florida+Buffalo) led to too many ECHL’ers playing …
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Frustration
Playoff wins by era this century: Last 5 years of first Buffalo era:  (2000-2001 – 2004-2005) = 15 3 years of dual:  (2005-2006 – 2007-2008) = 2 3 years of Florida:  (2008-2009 – 2010-2011) = 3 First 5 years of second Buffalo era/Buffalo owned (2011-2012 – 2015-2016) = 2 And compared to: Last 5 years …
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Amerks 60th begins
Typically, I don’t consider a hockey season to be a success unless the team gets out of the first round.  Sometimes that’s a reasonable goal and sometimes it’s not. This season with the Amerks, it’s not only completely reasonable, but it may be a low expectation. In fact, anything other than getting out of the …
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The Tank is over….and in Rochester….shouldn’t have ever been
This wasn’t a fun season. The Buffalo Sabres tanking negatively affected the Amerks roster and as a result we had to suffer through a plethora of meaningless games down the stretch. And…..no playoffs. Again. So, this will be the 10th consecutive season our beloved Amerks don’t get out of the first round and the 5th …
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Steve Donner Interview – Part IV
“In today’s AHL, it’s getting harder and harder to achieve the string of successful seasons that we orchestrated here, and I’d like to think that that strengthens the legacy of what we accomplished.” Â LGA:Â It seems unfair that your legacy is what happened at the end vs. bringing a Cup here and having several successful …
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Steve Donner Interview – Part III
“We weren’t asking for handouts – we just wanted to keep some of our own revenue that we were generating.†LGA: On a scale of 1-10 (with 1 being extremely difficult and 10 being extremely easy) how was the city of Rochester to work with regards to the War Memorial lease? Donner: “A rating …
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Steve Donner Interview – Part II
“I wanted to make Rochester proud†LGA: What do you miss the most about owning the Amerks? Donner: “The People! I miss the fans the most – their happiness after a win. The joy of watching the clock count down on a game day. I was a fan first, so being able to do that …
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