The Rochester Americans couldn’t hold the Grand Rapids Griffins when a late penalty by Adam Dennis gave the Griffins a power play opportunity that they capitalized on, allowing the go ahead goal to take the lead 3-2 in the game with less than five minutes left.

Two games in two nights the Amerks have taken undisciplined penalties with the score tied late in the third period which has led to losses.  Many things have gone wrong this season, that being one of the many.

The Griffins scored the first goal of the game short handed, an AHL-worst 19 short-handed goals allowed, when Franklin MacDonald was caught up at the blue line which allowed the Garrett Stafford to skate almost untouched, receive a pass from Jamie Tardif, and put it past Adam Dennis. 

Marek Zagrapan scored the Amerks first goal of the game on the power play, his 17th of the season.  Franklin MacDonald had taken a hard shot from the blueline, Zagrapan picked up the rebound and easily put it in the net.

The Griffins second goal of the game was scored by Tyler Redenbach who poked it into the net as Adam Dennis was trying to cover up the rebound.  It didn’t [...]Read More

The Rochester Americans lost in the final minute of the game against the Syracuse Crunch last night.  They have now lost the last eight games played against the Crunch.

The Amerks scored first when Anthony Stewart scored fresh off being benched on Sunday.  His 13th goal was scored at 8:29.  Stewart was clearly trying to show all night that he doesn’t want to be watching the game from the bench any more this season.

Syracuse took advantage of a bogus powerplay when Marc Methot scored.  Stefan Meyer was in the box for holding even though a Crunch player was squeezing Meyer’s hand in his armpit.

Jordan Henry got a quick tripping penalty in the second period.  Kirill Starkov scored to make the score 2-1 at 2:41.

Less than two minutes later, Rochester native, Derek Whitmore scored his first professional goal at 4:09 to tie the game back up 2-2.

The rest of the second period had both teams in the penalty box a few times with no scoring happening.

Only 1:37 into the 3rd period, Mark Mancari was hooked in the Amerks’ zone but, he was also called for diving.  This seems to be a call the Amerks are getting a lot [...]Read More

As the season winds down and many teams around the American Hockey League are scrambling for points in the final games to make the playoffs, the Rochester Americans are hoping to finish the last seven games strong to stay out of last place.

The Amerks are currently at 56 points, trailing the Lowell Devils and Norfolk Admirals each with 59 points.  The Amerks and Devils each have seven games left, the Admirals have six.  The Amerks are currently on a three game winning streak.

The biggest obstacle in the way of the Amerks is there schedule.  Three games remain against the Syracuse Crunch, the first is tonight in Syracuse.  The Crunch have not lost a game in regulation since February 18th.  In the season series the Amerks have only won two out of nine games played, both wins came in October.

The Grand Rapids Griffins are one of a few teams the Amerks have had success all season against, five of the Amerks 23 wins all season have come against the Griffins, the two teams have played seven games.  The two teams play on Saturday April 5th at 7:35pm at Blue Cross Arena.

The Hamilton Bulldogs are another team the Amerks have had a [...]Read More