Tag:San Antonio Rampage
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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Michal Repik Leads the Way to Creating an Amerks Loss
It’s a perfect time to write a familiar name, Michal Repik scored the game winning goal on Saturday night at the War Memorial in downtown Rochester. Â Repik scored two goals leading the San Antonio Rampage to a 4-1 win over the Rochester Americans. Â As for the Amerks, they were present in uniforms but not in …
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Losing Texas Trip Ends Today Against Houston; Stuart Injured and Out a Month
When fans begin to panic there’s often another voice that will say ‘it’s only December’ or ‘there’s still 48 more games to be played’ but things are starting to look very bleak for this Rochester Americans team. Â The Amerks were shot down big time by the Texas Stars on Saturday night by the final score …
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Amerks Lose in Overtime to the Rampage, 10th Loss by One Goal
There’s almost always more than one way to look at a game, especially a loss. Â You can look at it as being a close game and getting a point on the road is acceptable or you can start to pull your hair out due to frustration at the apparent downhill slide. Â The Amerks have now …
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Amerks Weekend in Texas, Week in Review
The Amerks are on a long road trip to Texas and will be looking for a big weekend full of wins to put this last three in three behind them and gain some ground in the standings. Â They’ll play the Rampage on Friday, Stars on Saturday and Aero’s on Sunday. Â All three games are must …
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Other Blogs Covering AHL Teams
Without anything Rochester Americans related to write about this morning I thought I’d take a minute to share some links to other blogs out in cyberspace covering AHL teams, much like I cover the Amerks here. We’re all unique in how we cover our teams but all hold one thing in common, being passionate about the …
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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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What happened to some of last years Amerks?
The summer of 2009 has been an exciting one with the roster that has been built for the 2009/2010 Rochester Americans. There’ll be a lot of questions from fans getting to know some of the new players but also a lot of questions wondering about some favorites from last season. So here’s a quick rundown …
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Amerks Jersey Ranked 2nd by The Hockey News
The Hockey News ranked jerseys last year based on the teams logo, this year they decided to go by patches, striping, and piping to rank the jerseys. I also need to mention colors as well. The Amerks were ranked second for a “Classic crest with a clean look to it.” I’m not quite sure how …
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Amerks Summer News Stories, Getting Caught Up
It has been a busy summer for the Rochester Americans with a lot of great news and a couple of stories that have generated some bad press. Looking at the bigger picture it has been a positive summer. Here’s the start of “round up” type posts I’ll be doing once the season gets started. There’s …
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American Hockey League Teams on Twitter
As the 2009/2010 season approaches it appears as if the American Hockey League is finally represented within the Twitter universe. Twitter is a great service for sports fans due to the fact that news can usually be summed up in less than 140 characters leaving out all of the extra fluff that accompanies articles. If …
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Stefan Meyer Traded
Stefan Meyer was traded on Thursday by the Florida Panthers to the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for Steve Reinprecht. Meyer had been drafted by the Panthers in the 2nd round (55th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. Reinprecht and Meyer were both free agents this summer and neither were expected to sign again with …
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