Beyond The Blade: Amerks Weekly | Episode 6
Welcome to the sixth 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 Rochester Americans and what’s happened since the previous episode. This week we talk about Pilut, Guhle, O’Regan, goaltending, Borgen, Nylander, and next …
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Redmond Scores Twice in Amerks Win
The first period started off slow again for Rochester but at least it lasted less than four minutes, not the full 20. They team bounced back after being down early in the first and finished the game with a pretty solid 4-1 win. The penalty kill was perfect with a short handed goal from Kevin …
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Amerks Win Streak Halted in 5-4 Overtime Loss to B-Sens
Courtesy of Amerks.com from October 20, 2018 (Belleville, ON) … The Rochester Americans’ (5-2-1-0) bid for a sixth straight victory came up short as Chase Balisy of the Belleville Senators (3-3-0-0) scored his second goal of the night just 14 seconds into overtime to give the hosts a 5-4 victory Saturday night at the CAA …
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Prospects Had a Challenge in Game vs Bruins
The Buffalo Sabres prospects had a challenge in game two vs Boston and they only had themselves to blame. A valuable lesson for many in the second game after winning the night before in an exciting game. Into the third period Chris Taylor said, “Everybody’s trying to do it by themselves. We weren’t using each …
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Player Thoughts from the Amerks 2018 Locker Clean Out
The ice is gone, the bags are packed, the locker room is empty and players are making plans to go back home for the summer. Locker clean out’s are complete and with that comes end of season thoughts and looking forward. Getting swept in three games by Syracuse wasn’t how anyone wanted the season to …
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Linus Ullmark Returns Tonight vs Syracuse
The Rochester Americans have three regular season games remaining before the playoffs, two of those games are against the Syracuse Crunch in what could be a preview of the first round of the playoffs. The Crunch have a 5-1-1-1 series advantage this season. Rochester won the first two games of the season against Syracuse and also …
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Borgen Decided He was Ready and Made the Call
Will Borgen made his debut at Amerks practice on Tuesday morning fresh off his season ending at St Cloud State and starting his pro hockey career. The contract was finalized over the weekend, he flew out on Monday, started practicing on Tuesday. In his first pro practice he was paired up with veteran defenseman Nathan …
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Peterson is Familiar with the Amerks Standings; Mittlestadt is Not AHL Eligible
The Rochester Americans returned to work this morning with a practice session that included Judd Peterson, one of two new players that’s joining the team to finish out the season. Will Borgen is the other player that’ll be joining the team and he’ll be at practice on Tuesday, was traveling on Monday. After practice Peterson …
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Two New Amerks: Will Borgen and Judd Peterson
The Rochester Americans clinched a playoff position on Saturday night and on Sunday afternoon added two college players to the roster, defenseman Will Borgen and forward Judd Peterson. They’ve both signed ATO’s (amateur tryouts) and will be eligible for the Amerks playoff run. Will Borgen also signed an NHL entry level contract that will start …
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