Tag:CJ Smith
Game Preview: Amerks Host Marlies in Buffalo at Harborcenter
After a brief skate this morning in Rochester the Amerks will be boarding a bus this afternoon and travel to Buffalo for a preseason game against the Toronto Marlies at Harborcenter. The Amerks played Thursday night and lost a 4-1 game against the Syracuse Crunch at RIT. The Crunch had at least eight or nine …
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Sabres Assign CJ Smith and 13 Others to Rochester, Ruotsalainen to Ilves
The Buffalo Sabres trimmed the training camp roster down by 15 players on Sunday morning by assigning 14 to Rochester and Arttu Ruotsalainen to Ilves (Liiga) in Finland. Arttu Ruotsalainen was a long shot to make the Sabres roster out of training camp and the contract with his team in Finland indicated that if he …
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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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Sabres Extend Qualifying Offers to Seven of Eleven Players
The Buffalo Sabres extended qualifying offers to six restricted free agents prior to the 5pm deadline today and the list is almost what was expected. Players receiving qualifying offers were Zemgus Girgensons, Johan Larsson, Evan Rodrigues, Jake McCabe, Linus Ullmark, CJ Smith, and Remi Elie. Last week Jason Botterill had stated that offers would be …
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Amerks Know Their Backs are Against the Wall
The biggest game of the season is tonight for the Rochester Americans who are on the brink of playoff elimination. The Toronto Marlies won the first two games of the first round best of five playoff series and will look to pull of the upset sweep on home ice. Toronto won 4-1 in game one …
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Amerks Season is on the Brink of a Total Bust
Everything was setup for the Rochester Americans to win game two but they didn’t. The team has been great all season at bouncing back from a loss and generating wins. They’ve also been great at winning games in front of smaller home crowds which there was on Easter Sunday. They’ve also found ways to score …
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Game 2 Preview: Amerks to Rely on the Bounce Back Game
It’s game two in the best of five series this afternoon and the Rochester Americans are going into a must win game on home ice. At the same time the defending Calder Cup champion Toronto Marlies are coming off of a confident 4-1 win in the first game Friday night. The Marlies made it through …
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Amerks Lose Game One and the Friday Story Remains the Same.
A positive takeaway from the 4-1 loss in game one to the Toronto Marlies is that the shutout was ruined by a Moe’s player of the game. Tage Thompson scored with 68 seconds left in the game which means you can take your ticket stub or coupon from a program card for 50% off at …
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Amerks Believe They Have What it Takes to Win a Calder Cup
It’s been a long time since the Rochester Americans won a playoff series. It’s been even longer since the Rochester Americans have won a Calder Cup. There was a time when years were defined by winning playoff rounds, making it to the finals, and winning a Calder Cup. Fans remember those years, the media remembers …
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Recap of 2018-2019 Amerks Regular Season Stats
The Rochester Americans return to the ice Wednesday morning to prepare for the 2019 Calder Cup Playoffs and continue the goal they set in the preseason – to be an elite playoff team. The regular season was just about as good as it can get in terms of stats and finishing third overall in the …
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Six Amerks Scored 20 Plus Goals, First time in Over 20 Seasons
There’s a lot of remarkable achievements for the 2018/2019 Rochester Americans in the regular season. They were third overall in the league, they had the best road record, and they also tied a franchise record for road wins in a season with 25. They also scored a lot of goals finishing third overall in the league …
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Nine to Sit Out the Finale, Five Up from Cincy
Today is the last game of the regular season for the Rochester Americans and it’ll be a meaningless game for them. The team traveled to Belleville following the 4-3 loss in Syracuse and while half of the team boarded the bus there were nine other players that went back to Rochester. Syracuse clinched the North …
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