Tag:Nick Baptiste
Seven Roster Moves for the Amerks Today
The front office of the Rochester Americans, Buffalo Sabres and Cincinnati Cyclones were busy today with a total of seven roster moves. This post has gone through a number of edits as each time it was close to being published we’d find out about another move. Now that the day is over this should be …
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Amerks Play the Game and Comeback to Win in OT
The game started out miserable and some season ticket holders told us that they left early (for valid reasons) but the Rochester Americans found a way to erase a three goal deficit and won the game 4-3 in overtime thanks to two late goals by Nick Baptiste in the third period and the overtime winner …
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Gameday Notes and Quotes: Amerks Need A Repeat Performance
The Amerks are back at home tonight for the second game of a home and home with Laval Rocket, the farm team of the Montreal Canadiens. The Amerks won a 5-2 game on Wednesday night in Laval. An early unfortunate bounce gave the Rocket an early lead but the Amerks didn’t back off. Chris Taylor …
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Game Recap and Notes: Flat on Friday the 13th, Paetsch Injured, Playing as a Team
The Amerks started the season with two wins over the Syracuse Crunch and with only one game this weekend they should’ve come out but the opposite happened, they fell flat from the start. The rest of the game was an uphill battle they weren’t able to recover from. (Featured photo courtesy of Amerks.com) “We weren’t …
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Chris Taylor on WGR550 Talking Systems, Tasks and Player Development
Amerks Head Coach Chris Taylor was on WGR550 this morning with Howard and Simon talking about the system, coaching tasks and talked about some individual players. Scroll down to listen to the audio. After years of players being rushed to the NHL and strictly talk about development it’s great that winning is also a big …
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Scouting Report – 11/18/16 – Nick Baptiste
New Lets Go Amerks contributor Dennis Allen Jr. will be posting a scouting report on a different player each home game (and the odd road game) he attends.  You can see his previous scouting reports at: http://rocscouting.blogspot.com  …… and be sure to follow him @RocScout14 Dennis is an aspiring scout wrapping up his associates program for …
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