Tag:Playoffs
AHL Alignment and Playoff Format for 2011-2012 Season
For Amerks fans, there’s no real change except for the Abbotsford Heat being in a different division. Â The Rochester Americans are still in the Western Conference and still in the North Division. Â As AHL President Dave Andrews said at the Sabres press conference, the Amerks were in the Eastern Conference for about three weeks before …
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Amerks Comeback from 1960 Making Headlines
The Hamilton Bulldogs are already in the record books for the American Hockey League by becoming only the third team in the league’s 75 year history to win three games after losing the first three. The Bulldogs play game 7 on Tuesday night against the Houston Aero’s, winner moves on to play the Binghamton Senators …
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AHL Playoff Format for 2010-2011 Season
Now that the American Hockey League has a 30 teams in the league and all of the divisions are unbalanced, there’ll now be a crossover rule in both the East and West Conferences. There will still be 16 teams total making the playoffs. Updated: I had originally said only the Eastern Conference had the crossover …
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Calder Cup Finals are Set, Hershey vs Texas
At the start of the season it was easy to predict that the Hershey Bears would be in the Calder Cup finals, predicting the Texas Stars would be there opponent would not have been a prediction. The Stars defeated the Hamilton Bulldogs in game 7 to advance to the finals. All eyes are on the …
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Audio from 2010 Amerks Locker Cleanout, Vets, Nolan and Staats
The Amerks season is over and a few of the players spoke after their exit meetings and they cleaned out their lockers. Uploading audio is a new feature and this one took me a little while longer as I’m uploading them to YouTube. This way the audio is easier for people to share outside of …
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History Was Made, Amerks Squandered a 3-1 Series Lead
Well, at least we witnessed history at Blue Cross Arena on Tuesday night. For the first time ever in American Hockey League history a team that had a 3-1 lead in the series go on to lose games 6 and 7 at home and blow the series. The Amerks were not able to get anything …
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Getting Through a Game 7 and Two Updates
Every hardcore hockey fan in Rochester right now probably has the game on their mind tonight. There’s a great article linked below that describes the feelings leading up to a game 7, even if it’s only the first round. Two updates from Kevin Oklobzija at Hockey O-Zone, Rory Fitzpatrick is playing and Kevin says he was …
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Gameday: Time for a Legendary Game 7 for the Amerks
In the words of Barney Stinson, it’s time to suit up and prepare for a legendary night. It’s all on the line tonight for the Rochester Americans in game seven against the Abbotsford Heat. The winner starts preparing for the Hamilton Bulldogs, the loser reserves a tee time. We know the Amerks can defeat this …
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Amerks Feel the Heat and are Forced to a Game 7
Before everyone starts writing a eulogy for this Amerks team just remember that it’s not over yet. When a playoff series is on the line every team wants home ice advantage, something the Amerks earned. It’s up to them to use it to their advantage. It’s their building. This team has done a lot this …
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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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