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Season 61 – Preview
(10/13 PM Update) For the third summer in the last 4 years, the Amerks roster looks good…ON PAPER. “Blah Blah Blah”, “Yeah, whatever”, and “So what”. I hear you, guys. But it’s October – so I’m going to put on my hopeful and optimistic mask for the time being. I was excited about Cunneyworth returning …
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No excuses this season
It’s over. Â One of the more disappointing seasons of at least the past 35 years has mercifully finished. This isn’t last year’s team who could say Buffalo’s tanking devastated their roster. Â It’s not a season like 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 or 2013-2014 where significant injuries both here and above (Florida+Buffalo) led to too many ECHL’ers playing …
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Frustration
Playoff wins by era this century: Last 5 years of first Buffalo era:  (2000-2001 – 2004-2005) = 15 3 years of dual:  (2005-2006 – 2007-2008) = 2 3 years of Florida:  (2008-2009 – 2010-2011) = 3 First 5 years of second Buffalo era/Buffalo owned (2011-2012 – 2015-2016) = 2 And compared to: Last 5 years …
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Amerks 60th begins
Typically, I don’t consider a hockey season to be a success unless the team gets out of the first round.  Sometimes that’s a reasonable goal and sometimes it’s not. This season with the Amerks, it’s not only completely reasonable, but it may be a low expectation. In fact, anything other than getting out of the …
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