Tag:David Shantz
The Amerks 12 Days of Christmas 2008 to 2011
The Amerks have continued the tradition in 2011 of having the players sing their own version of the 12 Days of Christmas. Â Starting with 2008 and then this seasons is down at the bottom. Â Derek Whitmore and Jacob Lagace offer the best moments in this years. Â It’s a shame they couldn’t squeeze in a “Legend …
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David Shantz and the Heat Had More Fun and Less to Lose
When the Florida Panthers told goalie David Shantz that he was not part of their plans at the end of last season who could have imagined he would be the goalie the Amerks would lose to. During the 2008/2009 season Shantz was sent off the ECHL and at that point with his contract expiring he …
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Gameday: Amerks in Control to End the Series
The Rochester Americans have a 3-2 lead in the best of seven series with the Abbotsford Heat and should be in control of ending the series with a home game today at 5:05pm in downtown Rochester. The Amerks won two out of three on the left coast of North America against the Heat and have home …
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Video: Amerks at Heat Game Five Scoring
Thanks to the Abbotsford Heat for supplying scoring highlights pretty quickly to the media after games. Here’s the four goals scored during the game and the Jason Jaffray penalty shot. 1. ABB Rheault, (2) (Spurgeon, Sutter), 7:45 1. ABB Murray, (1) (Lammers, Cunning), 10:27 1. RCH York, (2) (Matthias), 13:04 3. ABB Van der Gulik, …
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Heat Defeat the Amerks to Force Game Six Sunday in Rochester
The Abbotsford Heat were down 3-1 in the series heading into Friday nights game and scored two first period goals on their way to a 3-1 win over the Amerks to force a game six on Sunday in Rochester. Don Stevens said on the broadcast that the team has to be up at 4am to …
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Huge 8 to 4 Win for the Amerks in Game 3
The Amerks got out to a slow start on Monday night on the road against the Abbotsford Heat but came back in a big way ending the game with an 8-4 win. Abbotsford had a 2-1 lead up until 8:03 of the second period when Shawn Matthias tied the game and that opened up the …
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Game 2: Stay Out of the Box and Play Physical Near the Net
It’s only game two of a seven game series tonight between the Amerks and Heat but it’s possibly one of the most important games. If the Heat win and return home for three games everything is in their favor. If the Amerks win the series starts over as a best of five with three straight …
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Round 1 Preview of the Amerks vs Heat
The Amerks begin their run for the Calder Cup on Thursday night against the Abbotsford Heat in I’m guaranteeing will be a great round of hockey. The two teams met four times during the regular season with the Heat winning three of those games but the teams that played each other during the regular season …
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Alexander Salak Likely the Starting Goalie for Amerks
As I would have predicted, Alexander Salak is all but confirmed by the coach to be the starting goaltender for the Rochester Americans when they open the first round of the playoffs on Thursday night against the Abbotsford Heat. Benoit Groulx said that he will officially announce it on Wednesday but Tyler Plante had let …
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Another Amerks Friday Loss.. Defense.. Offense..
There’s only one way to describe most of Friday nights Rochester Americans game and that is with the word boring. The players and coach seem to disagree so I could be wrong. The scoreboard says that the Amerks only lost by one goal but there’s a lot more to it than that. It took the …
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What happened to some of last years Amerks?
The summer of 2009 has been an exciting one with the roster that has been built for the 2009/2010 Rochester Americans. There’ll be a lot of questions from fans getting to know some of the new players but also a lot of questions wondering about some favorites from last season. So here’s a quick rundown …
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Amerks Summer News Stories, Getting Caught Up
It has been a busy summer for the Rochester Americans with a lot of great news and a couple of stories that have generated some bad press. Looking at the bigger picture it has been a positive summer. Here’s the start of “round up” type posts I’ll be doing once the season gets started. There’s …
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