The Florida Panthers have come forward stating that the Amerks need to get there financial issues fixed soon, or they won’t be back next season.

The Buffalo Sabres have said they won’t be back as an affiliate next season without new ownership.

Steve Donner plans to sell a majority share of the franchise to a new investor, that sale can’t take place until Donner and partner Walter Turek can finally buy out minority owner Randall Latona.

Those negotiations, ongoing for months, continue to go well, Donner said.

“All the numbers are in order. We’ve come a long way,” Donner said.

All of us want answers (fans and players).  I can’t imagine current Florida Panther prospects were happy to read that the Panthers are ready to keep most players in the ECHL with the Florida Everblades, and spread the rest out across teams in the AHL.

Rochester is behind on affiliation payments to both Buffalo and Florida, with the team agreeing to pay each franchise $18,000 a season for each player on loan — about half the going rate.

The Panthers say they have worked out a payment plan with Rochester, with alternate governor Bill Torrey working out a deal [...]Read More

The future of the Rochester Americans needs to be discussed given the recent news of the Rochester Raging Rhino’s and PAETEC Park.

I’ll start by summing up events of recent days and how they’re tied to the Amerks:

PAETEC Park is home of the USL Rochester Raging Rhino’s soccer team.  One of the owners of the Rhino’s is Steve Donner (President & CEO of the Amerks).

The ownership group of the Rhino’s had been trying to court an investor for the team.  They needed someone to take over the loan for the stadium, and invest money into improving it and the team.

On Monday it was announced a deal with Dan Williams (the investor) and the bank h0lding the loan of the park could not be reached, Williams said he was walking away.

On Tuesday some key developments reported by 13 WHAM that can be tied to the Amerks:

1. The city is moving to take over the stadium, perhaps as soon as this week. The city owns the land upon which the stadium is built, and the Rhinos have been in default of their lease.

4. No one knows if a sale of the Rhino’s franchise will happen [...]Read More

 Amerks’ coach Randy Cunneyworth got his 300th win last night in a 5-3 victory against the Iowa Stars.

Marc-Andre Gragnani had a four point game against the Stars.  Gragnani started his season in Rochester as a defenseman but when the Amerks had a shortage of forwards he was moved to left wing.  His play has improved since moving to that position, as he was struggling as a defenseman with the worst +/- on the team.

Dylan Hunter also tallied four points (2 goals, 2 assists) in the effort against the Stars.  He now has 33 points this season with 13 goals and 20 assists.  Last season in 67 games, Hunter has 28 points, showing his improvement.

Only 26 seconds into the first period it looked like business as usual when the Stars jumped to an early 1-0 lead when all-star center Toby Petersen put his 21st goal of the season past Tyler Plante.

The rest of the first period was a back and forth game between the teams.  Gragnani tied the game 1-1 with a PP goal at 2:59.  The Stars then took the lead again at 6:41 when Konstantin Pushkarev netted a power play goal.  Gragnani wouldn’t let that [...]Read More

The Amerks lost there third straight game against the Syracuse Crunch by the final score of 3-1 in Syracuse.  Randy Cunneyworth is still looking for win #300 and is probably hoping for it by the end of the season.  The only odd thing to report about the game is that during the first period apparently the Amerks consistently had a player at center ice trying to cherry pick.  It didn’t work.

I wasn’t able to listen or watch the game because all of the internet feeds of the game seemed to be down tonight (B2 Networks & Radio), and oddly enough I couldn’t find an AM radio in the house.

So, here’s the Amerks.com report -

The Rochester Americans lost their third straight contest tonight, falling 3-1 to the Syracuse Crunch at the War Memorial at Oncenter. With the loss, Rochester has now fallen to 2-5-0-1 against the Crunch and 17-36-4-4 this season.

Syracuse used three different goal scorers in Clay Wilson, Adam Pineault and Joakim Lindstrom to provide the scoring for the Crunch while Rochester’s lone goal came from the stick of defenseman Martin Lojek.

Adam Dennis recorded a 22-save effort in the loss as Syracuse’s Karl Goehring notched [...]Read More