Tag:Victor Olofsson
A Look at the First Quarter of the Amerks Season
The Rochester Americans enter the second quarter of the season sitting in first place in the North Division, a spot they’ve been in since the fifth game of the season. They host the Atlantic Division Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and will have to play without defenseman Lawrence Pilut who was called up on Tuesday and Matt Tennyson …
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Amerks Bounce Back with a Saturday Night Win
The Rochester Americans bounced back on Saturday night for a 4-3 win in Binghamton after what the team considered one of the most disappointing losses of the season on Friday. Breaking down the game into three one period games the Amerks won each period and won the game. Rochester came out playing fast in the …
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Recap of the Last Five (Games 11-15)
Welcome to the third part of a 15 part season series highlighting the last five games (the last segment will be six games) showing off the stats, standings, highlights, transactions and whatever else took place prior to the next five games. The goal is to post these the day of the next game of a …
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One Point isn’t Good Enough but Asplund is Still Playing Great Hockey
There are players on the Rochester Americans roster this season that will tell you they don’t know how many points they have and the coaches will say that points don’t matter but to Rasmus Asplund he knows he only has one point in 14 games. That doesn’t mean he’s playing poorly at all and everyone …
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Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 4
Welcome to the fourth episode of our Amerks weekly podcast on Beyond The Blade between myself, Keith Wozniak, and Chad DeDominicis from Die By the Blade. It’s a short podcast where we discuss what’s currently going on with the team and what’s happened since the previous episode. This week we talk about the Taylor Fedun trade, Alex …
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Poor First Period Ends the Amerks Point Streak
It only took five seconds for the game on Friday night to get off to a rough start and it didn’t get any better the rest of the first period. Hershey scored three in the first, Rochester didn’t score until the third period when it was too late and there’s your game summary. Kevin Porter …
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Recap of the Last Five (Games 6-10)
Welcome to the second part of a 15 part season series highlighting the last five games (the last segment will be six games) showing off the stats, standings, highlights, transactions and whatever else took place prior to the next five games. The goal is to post these the day of the next game of a …
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Victor Olofsson Named October AHL Player of the Month
Victor Olofsson finished his first month of professional North American hockey as a league leading scorer, earned an AHL player of the week honor and capped it off being named AHL player of the month. “Its an honor,” Olofsson said after practice on Friday morning. “I’m very happy and it’s the kind of start I …
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Comets were Smoked by the Shot Blocking Amerks
The Rochester Americans started the season being known as a tough team to play against and after smoking the Comets out of the building in the ninth game of the season they may be at that point. In five of the six wins this season Rochester has lit up the scoreboard with four or more …
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Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 2
Welcome to the second episode of a new weekly Amerks podcast on Beyond The Blade between myself, Keith Wozniak, and Chad DeDominicis from Die By the Blade. Due to scheduling we missed a week but the plan is to make this a weekly thing. This week we talk about a team that has won five of their …
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Amerks Top Marlies in Shootout for Fifth Straight Win
Courtesy of Amerks.com from October 19, 2018 (Rochester, NY) … Despite seeing their two-goal lead slip away, the Rochester Americans (5-2-0-0) went a perfect 3-for-3 in the shootout to come away with a 5-4 win over the defending Calder Cup champion Toronto Marlies (1-4-0-1) Friday night at The Blue Cross Arena. Tonight’s victory give the Amerks …
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Defensive Depth, Olofsson and Toronto
The Amerks have the chance to do something tonight they haven’t done since April 12, 2104 and that’s win five games in a row. Andrey Makarov was in net that game and Kevin Porter scored the game winning goal in a shootout. That season the team also had a seven game winning streak. Kevin Porter …
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