Tag:David Leggio
Leggio Leads the Amerks to the Second Half of the Season with a Win
Another weekend has come and gone and another pair of solid performances by the Rochester Americans. Â The team finished the set of games with three out of a possible four points with an overtime loss to the Toronto Marlies on Friday and regulation win against the Hamilton Bulldogs on Saturday night. Â David Leggio has stepped …
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Amerks Comeback Takes the Bears to the Shootout; Successful Weekend
The Amerks loss to the Hershey Bears can be looked at a few ways but the best way to look at it is that this team has a lot of heart, character and a never say die attitude that’s awesome to watch. Â After two periods the Bears were winning the game and had a 36-9 …
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Varone and Leggio Lead Amerks to 3-2 Win Over B-Sens
Sounds like the game came down to the final moments on Saturday night when the Amerks defeated the defending Calder Cup Champion Binghamton Senators. Â I was not able to see or listen to the game so here’s the press release below… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2011 VARONE, LEGGIO POWER AMERKS TO 3-2 WIN OVER …
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Gameday: Maturing Amerks Hit the Road Again; Morrisonn and Tropp Return
The Amerks hit the road again for the start of a busy almost second half of the season. Â They’ll be playing three games in three nights starting tonight against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and then Binghamton Senators and then closing out the weekend against the Hershey Bears on Sunday. Â The team will play every Friday and …
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Top 11 Articles on Lets Go Amerks from 2011
It was a busy second half of 2011 for this site with acquiring a bigger audience with the sale of the Rochester Americans to the Buffalo Sabres.  Here’s a quick look back at what was popular over the past year (more like 6 months, I didn’t write much last season). ( AHL Playoff Format for 2010-2011 Season ) – The …
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Gameday Notes: Amerks vs Bulldogs; Big Crowd Expected
The Amerks have a chance to take first back first place in the North Division with a win tonight over the Hamilton Bulldogs, a team they’ve had difficulty beating so far in six games this season. Â The Bulldogs have 12 wins this season and five of those have been against the Rochester Americans. Â Both teams …
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Amerks Shootout Win Extends Streak to Four Games; Adversity is No Problem
(Update: Added shootout video and Travis Turnbull incident) This Rochester Americans team is supposed to lack goal scoring. Â It’s supposed to be missing a couple of players as veteran leadership. Â It’s supposed to lack depth. Â It’s also supposed to be torn apart by all of the injuries and call ups but the players put everything …
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Six Goal Scorers Saved the Weekend for the Amerks; Finley and Morrisonn Injured
What was shaping up to be a disaster of a road trip was saved on Sunday when six different players scored six goals to lead the Rochester Americans to a 6-2 win over the Houston Aeros. Â The Amerks lost in overtime on Friday night to the Rampage, were blown out 6-2 on Saturday night against …
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Loss to the Aeros; Corey Tropp Called Up; Tonight vs Bulldogs
A few random updates… News of the day is that the Buffalo Sabres have more injuries with Nathan Gerbe and Patrick Kaleta are out injured so Corey Tropp has been called up from the Rochester Americans. As for the loss on Friday night, the Amerks got out to an early 2-0 lead and then the …
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Amerks Gameday Notes vs the Houston Aeros
The Amerks just finished up their morning gameday skate in preparation for tonights game against the Houston Aeros, one of the top teams in the West Division. Â The Aeros have only lost three games in regulation so far this season out of a total of 21 games. Â They’ve lost two in overtime and four in …
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Amerks Injury Updates, MacIntyre is Back and The Positive Effect of Call Ups
The big news out of Amerks practice this morning was that Drew MacIntyre was back on the ice with the team in net after spending some time with the Buffalo Sabres. Â The first thought was maybe they just sent him down for the day but Ron Rolston confirmed that MacIntyre is here for the weekend. …
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Amerks Team Effort Leads to Win Over the Devils
Heading into the game on Friday night there were low expectations due to the fact that the Amerks had lost another forward to a call up, that player being Zack Kassian. Â That meant the Amerks would be without him, TJ Brennan, Corey Tropp and Drew MacIntyre. Â The Amerks are still without forwards Travis Turnbull, Michael …
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