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Six Game Home Stand Starts Tonight

October 31, 2008 - By

The Rochester Americans start a six game home stand tonight against the Toronto Marlies, and concludes two weeks later on November 14th against the Chicago Wolves.  There will be no lack of tough games in the coming weeks.

Tonight the Amerks take on the Toronto Marlies for the first time this year.  The Marlies are 3-3-1 so far and have a superior team to ours.  If the Amerks want to win this game they are going to have to step it up a lot defensively to keep the puck away from our net for a while.  Hitting some people through the boards wouldn’t hurt either.  And let’s see Riley Emmerson get into another fight… at home… where the crowd can cheer him on!

Don’t forget that tonight is Halloween.  So, dress up, and come out and bring your kids to get some yummy candy during sweets in the suites.  Yum.

Tomorrow the Amerks take on the Hamilton Bulldogs for the first time of the season.  They are 5-2-1 and don’t look like they are going to slow down any time soon.  The game starts at 7:35 p.m.

On Friday, November 7th, the Manitoba Moose come into town to [...]Read More

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Shawn Matthias Is Back

October 31, 2008 - By

Matthias returned to Rochester this morning after playing in the Florida Panthers vs Ottawa Senators game on Thursday night in Florida.  He had a total of 7:21 minutes of ice time in the game.  Now we’re just hoping he steps up his play for us here in Rochester and doesn’t think he can cruise by waiting for another spot to open for him in Florida.

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Shawn Matthias Recalled

October 30, 2008 - By

Shawn Matthias has been recalled by the Florida Panthers.  Matthias has played eight games with the Rochester Americans and has one goal and one assist..  It seems he will be centering the third line for the Panthers tonight when they take on the Ottawa Senators in Miami.

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Practice 10-30-2008

October 30, 2008 - By

The team is working in smaller groups today.  Right now half the team is sitting on the bench while the other half practices puck movement.  It is very informative.  They are really getting some good passing and scoring going on.  Kenndal McArdle, once again, can stick the puck anywhere he wants to in the net.  In the smallest hole between the shoulder and crossbar.

But, Kenndal was just told “Don’t go below the dot to take your shot, if you do that, you won’t be on the power play.” 

This drill looks fun to me.  But, they are learning some great plays for the powerplay.  I hope Toronto takes some stupid penalties tomorrow, I would like to see how this translates to the gameday situations.  Repik looks great out there.  It looks like the first line of the PP will be:

Repik – Meyer – McArdle        Fitzpatrick-Garrison

Repik was being switched in and out with Karl Stewart.  Both looked pretty solid, but Repik looked better by a small margin.  Either way this top power play squad seems like a good choice to me.  Obviously, I am far less knowledgeable than Benoit…so, his choices will most likely make sense [...]Read More

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Practice 10-29-2008: The Return Of Rory

October 29, 2008 - By

The day you have all been waiting for is here.  Rory Fitzpatrick has returned from his head injury and is practicing with the team.  Peter Aston is also back on the ice today after a day off with a sore hip.  We have eight defensemen on the ice now.  A nice sight to see.

The atmosphere is much different today.  There is no yelling and screaming, everyone is back on track.  The team has clearly taken what Benoit said yesterday to heart.  Everyone is working their hardest while still having fun (not too much fun, but celebrating when they score a fancy goal or something).

Like a few people who read yesterday’s article said, Benoit can’t yell at them everyday or the players will just start to tune him out.  It clearly seems like he knows how to run a team.  I still can’t believe the difference between this year’s practices and last year’s.  It’s like night and day.  You won’t see any strip shootout games happening this year.

The players appreciate a coach who treats them like men and not like children.  Like Drew Larman said last night at the library, they deserved the treatment they got [...]Read More

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Panthers Sign Jassen Cullimore

October 28, 2008 - By

The Florida Panthers have signed defensemen Jassen Cullimore to a one year deal.  He’ll be taking the spot of Cory Murphy who is going to be out for a while with a shoulder injury.  Considering the way our Amerks defense has played so far this season, we can’t afford to lose our top defensemen Jason Garrison as a call up.

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Amerks' Practice 10-28-2008

October 28, 2008 - By

I was hoping to see a really tough practice today after Saturday and Sunday’s games (and even Friday’s, it wasn’t a beautiful win).  And that is exactly what I am seeing.  Coach Benoit is not messing around today…not that he ever messes around.

During the first drill we are here for there are people still not hitting in the corners.  Benoit did not like that.  He called the whole team over to talk about how poorly he felt about that.  It sounded a little something like this. “We are so f***ing soft, so f***ing soft.  I don’t want to see you skating up and just putting your stick in there!  You hit your man and take the puck and get it out of there.”

They are now beating the bejesus out of each other in the corners.  And that is what I like to see.  Hit, hit, hit.  More hitting.  I want this team to start killing the other teams…literally.  I am sick of watching the other teams dig in the corner like professionals and we go in like pansies.  We will never win a corner battle that way.

There is an awful lot of bad words coming [...]Read More

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Check out our article on Amerks.com!

October 28, 2008 - By

“The Wozniak Weekly” is a weekly feature that is now part of Amerks.com, the first was released today and is about how great the Reading Power Play program is.  We’ve all read about the team on the ice, so we’re going to try and cover other topics other than just winning and losing games.  Read It Here.   Hope you enjoy it!

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Amerks Lose Second Straight On The Road. 8-3

October 26, 2008 - By

The Bears and Amerks were supposed to renew their rivalry tonight in Hershey.  And if they did, the Bears came out on top big time.

I really don’t even have words to show my dissapointment in tonight’s game.  I would like it if Curt Styres or someone from the Amerks would give me back my $6 I paid to watch this game on my computer.

The first period and a half weren’t too bad.  The Bears would score then the Amerks would tie it up.  Then the flood gates broke open and the Bears scored three axtra goals by the end of the second making the score 5-2.

The third period was just sad, the Bears scoring three more goals while the Amerks managed to squeeze one more in.

Tyler Plante was in goal.  He really didn’t look as bad as it may sound.  Hershey had 50 shots on goal while the Amerks only put up 16 all together.  I mean seriously…the Bears had 23 shots in the 2nd period alone…

Goals for the Amerks were as follows:

Mike Duco (Micflicier, Ellerby) 19:23 in the first period.

Jacob Micflikier (Duco, Brine) 4:52 in the second period

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Videos of Saturday Night Fights

October 26, 2008 - By

Riley Emmerson, Mike Duco, Tanner Glass, Jon Mirasty, Ryan Garlock, and Dan Smith.. A Saturday night of fights between the Rochester Americans and Syracuse Crunch! I think I shrunk them down too much and lost some quality, will work on uploading clearer videos later.

Mike Duco vs Ryan Garlock

Round 1 – Jon Mirasty vs Riley Emmerson

Round 2 – Jon Mirasty vs Riley Emmerson

Tanner Glass vs Dan Smith – This never went any further due to Smiths injured thumb.

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Jason Garrison Rejoining Amerks in Hershey

October 26, 2008 - By

Jason Garrison flew to St Louis where he played with the Florida Panthers on Saturday night, and is flying back on Sunday to rejoin the Amerks in Hershey when they play the Bears. If the Panthers injury problems continue he could be well on his way to accumulating the most frequent flyer miles this season.

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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Beat 'Em…Amerks Lose 6-1 To The Crunch

October 25, 2008 - By

The Rochester Americans lost tonight to the Syracuse Crunch in a sad 6-1 final score.  This, of course, is better than last year on the Crunch’s “Pink Out” night when the Amerks were creamed 9-2.

Emmerson made his AHL debut tonight and did a good job.  But, more on that later.

The first period started out with a quick epic fail when Starkov scored for the Crunch only 17 seconds into the game.  That was only the tip of the iceburg that was to come.

The Amerks were on the powerplay when Vigalante went to the box for tripping at 3:18.  That chance was short lived when Ellerby decided to get a penalty of his own at 4:02.  To add insult to injury, Drew Larman took yet another penalty, giving the Crunch a 4 on 3 powerplay.  The outcome of that situation is easy to imagine.  The Crunch (Wilson) scored their second goal of the night easily.

For the next ten minutes we fought off a few more penalty killing problems.  But, it wouldn’t last forever.  Wilson tallied his second goal of the night at 14:15 to put another nail in the coffin before the end of the [...]Read More

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