Tag:Rochester Americans
Amerks, Playoffs and Darcy
After a second frustrating trade deadline in a row, Eric Bourgeois and Jason Bonno discuss the Amerk playoff roster (who’s on it, who is not), playoff chances……..and Darcy Regier. Kevin Porter Eric: He was clearly very important to the team in many ways as its captain and is sorely missed. Good for him in getting …
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Survey for Hockey Fans About an App to Be Released Soon
I think it’s safe to say that just about every hockey player, fan and anyone in the media has HockeyDB set as one of their bookmarks or can type the name of the site faster than just about any other site. Â A few professional hockey players are trying to take a piece of that pie …
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2011-2012 The Hockey News AHL Predictions vs End of Season Standings
At the start of every season most publications try and predict the season ending standings, something I would never want the task of doing. Â I decided to take a look back at the The Hockey News predictions for the 2011/2012 season compared to the final standings and for the most part they were way off. …
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Dave Andrews 2012 AHL State of the League Address
Every season the morning of the American Hockey League All-Star Game the media gathers in a room with AHL President Dave Andrews to discuss the state of the league. Â Some seasons there’s a lot to talk about with teams in financial troubles, team movement or affiliation changes but there really wasn’t any of that this …
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The Hockey News Ranks Amerks to be 4th in the West
The Hockey News has published it’s preview of the American Hockey League’s 2011/2012 season and the Rochester Americans are ranked 4th in the West and based on those predictions would win the North Division. Â The rankings were put together by the D&C’s Kevin Oklobzija. Thanks to Admirals Roundtable for the rankings. Â Looking back at the …
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Watch 1996 Game 7 Amerks Defeat Pirates to Win Calder Cup
Here it is, all of game 7 from 1996 broken into three parts. Â Those of you who were there will relive the night, the rest of us get to be jealous and dream of the day the War Memorial is packed wall to wall again for some exciting playoff hockey. Â The three parts combined are …
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1996 Video Highlighting Amerks Calder Cup Win
In 1995 the Rochester Americans home opener was October 13. Â They went on to win the 1996 Calder Cup. Â In 2011 the Amerks home opener is October 13th. A championship isn’t won off of one date but given hockey superstitions can’t hurt to point it out. Â The Amerks defeated the Portland Pirates in seven games …
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AHL Approval and Details All that Remain of Amerks Sale to the Sabres
Curt Styres selling the Rochester Americans franchise to Terry Pegula of the Buffalo Sabres has been as much of a secret as Terry Pegula buying the Sabres earlier this year. Â Everyone has known it’s happening, the only thing that held things up was all of the legal mumbo jumbo and league approval, two things that …
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Panthers Call up Oreskovich and Ellerby
The Florida Panthers booked Victor Oreskovich and Keaton Ellerby on a plane this morning to join the team in St Louis to increase the recent callups from the Rochester Americans to five players. Earlier in the week Kenndal McArdle, Michal Repik, and Jeff Taffe were called up. Ellerby was called up to play in place …
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Amerks Win Again, Longest Streak Since 2005
The Amerks came into Friday night riding a seven game winning streak that started back on October 12th, two days after they were pretty much destroyed by Albany. When they left Binghamton on Friday night the Amerks extended the winning streak to eight games, the longest since early 2005. A big concern coming into tonights …
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Gameday: Amerks at Binghamton Senators
The Amerks are back in action tonight on the road against the Binghamton Senators. These same two teams played nine days ago when the Amerks defeated the Senators by the final score of 4-2. That game was also filled with a lot of action near goaltender Tyler Plante. That’s also the same game that he …
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Jeff Taffe Called Up
The Florida Panthers have recalled Jeff Taffe from the Rochester Americans. While the Amerks are on a hot streak the Panthers are in need of help. More later, not too easy posting from a blackberry. Updated 8:03pm… Finally home and in front of a computer. As posted earlier Taffe was called up to fill in …
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