Tag:Don Stevens
Amerks to Televise 11 Home Games on Time Warner
The Amerks announced today that they’ll have 11 home games televised on Time Warner Cable SportsNet, a big difference from every game that’s been televised in recent seasons. Â Whether or not having all games on TV helped or hurt the team is a discussion that could go on forever. Â The games will be on Channel …
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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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Amerks Announcer Don Stevens on Versus
If you’ve missed hearing the voice of Don Stevens calling an Amerks hockey game all summer then you’ll be able to hear him on August 29th at 3pm on Versus as he does play by play for the Major League Roller Hockey Pro Tour Championship game. I know that roller hockey is a popular sport, …
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More Bad Press for Amerks
The news on Monday that Fred Costello would not be returning as organist for the Rochester Americans did not have to be that big of a story but it’s turned into one. The reason? The way Amerks President Lewis Staats is being portrayed as handling the situation. It also doesn’t help that this made the …
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Winning is Everything for Chris Taylor
The Rochester Americans put the icing on the cake Thursday afternoon by signing veteran center Chris Taylor to a 2yr American Hockey League contract. The ownership was not joking around when they said they would be bringing in veteran leadership once free agency began. The veteran leadership that Chris Taylor will bring to the Amerks …
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Amerks Announce Major Press Conference
The Rochester Americans sent out a notice this afternoon that they will be hosting a major press conferenc on Wednesday afternoon to announce the new VP of Hockey Operations. My guess was that they would be announcing that this is the new role of Jody Gage, but someone who supposedly knows the situation said it …
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