Tag:Linus Ullmark
A Big Crowd Fueled Justin Bailey and the Amerks Comeback
The energy of a home crowd can fuel the success of a team and that’s what happened on Friday night. Justin Bailey scored two goals to start an Amerks comeback and called it the best crowd in the three years he’s been a Rochester American. An announced crowd of 7,846 may not have been the …
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Connor Ingram Shuts Out the Amerks
It only takes one mistake by a team to lose and that’s what happened on Wednesday night when the Syracuse Crunch shutout the Rochester Americans in a one goal game. Matt Tennyson turned the puck over trying to leave the Amerks zone, Syracuse moved the puck around, Carter Verhaeghe fired a shot off the back boards …
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Linus Ullmark Returns Tonight vs Syracuse
The Rochester Americans have three regular season games remaining before the playoffs, two of those games are against the Syracuse Crunch in what could be a preview of the first round of the playoffs. The Crunch have a 5-1-1-1 series advantage this season. Rochester won the first two games of the season against Syracuse and also …
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Ullmark Called up; Bailey Suspended; Nylander Stats
The day started off with the news that the Buffalo Sabres have called up Linus Ullmark and it’s likely for him to play some games. Since Ullmark returned from his last call up in the middle of January he’s had a record of 3-6-7 with a .908 save percentage with the Amerks. For the season Ullmark …
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Amerks Walked Over the Marlies
The Rochester Americans have two wins in their past three games against the number one team in the league, the Toronto Marlies. Embrace the moments as they happen. After a rare Friday night off the Amerks rolled into Toronto, played 60 minutes of hockey and took off out of town with another road win. The …
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Amerks Lose Again, Something They Mastered in the Third Quarter
The story repeats itself: Team doesn’t show up for a majority of a game and then a mistake results in an overtime loss. Travis St. Denis scored the easiest goal of the night 93 seconds into overtime standing all alone in front of Linus Ullmark and the Sound Tigers departed town with the win. The …
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Gameday Notes: Players Familiar with O’Regan
The Amerks finish the third quarter of their season tonight at home vs Bridgeport Sound Tigers, a team they’ve already defeated twice this season. A 4-1 road win on December 10, 2017 and a 3-2 overtime win at home on January 5, 2018. Danny O’Regan will play in his first game tonight for the Amerks …
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Justin Bailey Shines but Amerks Skid Continues
The headline had the potential to say Justin Bailey shines in Amerks win but just like nine of the last 10 games the Amerks lose again. It’s the same thing game after game, the team does’t play a full 60 minutes and it results in a loss. In the 56th game of the season they …
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Gameday Notes: Amerks Need Wins, Not Just Words
As the Amerks head into the 55th game of the season the words start to become meaningless without actions to back them up. Since January 10th the Amerks have an overall record of 4-6-5-3. Within the North Division they’re 2-5-4-3. In that same time the Marlies are 12-3-0-1 overall and 10-2-0-0 within the North. One team is 12-4 …
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Amerks Fall to Fourth Place
The Syracuse Crunch played a dominating game on Wednesday night in Buffalo and sent the Rochester Americans sinking to fourth place in the North Division. It’s only a two point spread between second and fourth but it feels more like 20. Sean Malone gave the Amerks an early lead scoring a short handed goal 5:01 …
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Amerks Focusing on Playing a Team Game
The Amerks are playing their annual home game in Buffalo tonight and for anyone that simply looks at the standings they’ll see a team sitting in a very comfortable spot in the North Division. That’s true but what the standings aren’t showing is that the team hasn’t been playing a team game and the results …
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Quick Call Up for Ullmark; Krause Injured; DMB up from Cincy
The Buffalo Sabres announced on Monday morning that Linus Ullmark has been called. Robin Lehner has a minor lower body injury and is considered day to day. Buffalo has an afternoon game today and an immediate need for a second goalie. This is the second call up of the season for Ullmark, well technically third, …
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