Month:February 2010
Gameday: USA vs Canada and Amerks vs B-Sens Today at BCA
Short and sweet… USA vs Canada starting at 3pm on the scoreboard at Blue Cross Arena followed by the Amerks vs Senators starting at 6:30pm. It’ll be a fun day of hockey in downtown Rochester. The video quality may not be the best on the arena scoreboard but it’s the experience that will be fun. …
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Amerks Break Friday Night Curse; Gameday at Hamilton
The Rochester Americans finally broke their Friday night curse with a home win against the Grand Rapids Griffins. Their previous home win on a Friday night dated back to November 27th. That’s about the time the season took a slump, slide, or you could even call it evening out. A Friday night win gets a …
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Gameday: Amerks Host Griffins; Amerks News from this Week
The Amerks host the Grand Rapids Griffins tonight and it’s pretty simple, they need to win a Friday night home game! The Amerks have not won a Friday night home game since November 27th when they barely held on to beat the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. The only game on a Friday they have won was a …
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Amerks to Lower Capacity at Blue Cross Arena
The Amerks have already started planning for the 2010/2011 season and one of the changes that will come is the closing of sections 211 – 217 which will lower capacity to around 7,668 seats, down from current capacity of 10,652. This is a great move by the team that probably should have been done a …
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Panthers Call Up Repik, Matthias, Calla and Beckford-Tseu
The Florida Panthers are returning to practice today to prepare for their first game following the Olympic break and in order to do that they needed some players. Bad news for the Amerks. Probably gone for the weekend and near future the Amerks have lost Michal Repik and Shawn Matthias. For some help on offense …
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Nolan Says Panthers are Aware of Amerks Slump
There is no denying the Rochester Americans have been in a long slump and have barely been holding on to second place in the North Division for some time now. Fans have read about and witnessed the poor play for themselves, heard excuses comments from the coaches and players, but have questioned whether or not …
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Gameday: Amerks Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony; vs Pirates
The Rochester Americans will hold their 23rd Hall of Fame induction ceremony this afternoon inducting Randy Cunneyworth, Jim Wiemer, and Kent Weisbeck. It’ll be a good day hearing great stories from some of the greats in Amerks history. Hopefully the players and coaches will hear what’s said and take it as motivation into the game …
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Amerks Loss to Portland is like Groundhog Day
It’s only fitting that as I find a movie to watch as I write about the Amerks fourth straight loss the movie Groundhog Day is on. Can someone check the alarm clocks of the Amerks and make sure I’ve Got You Babe is not waking the players up every morning? It sure does feel like …
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Gameday: Amerks Look to Stop Pirates Winning Streak
The last time the Rochester Americans and Portland Pirates faced off was on November 12th at HSBC Arena in Buffalo when the Pirates won 6-3 to end the Amerks bid for a franchise record 12th straight win. The Amerks will have a chance to end the Pirates bid for their own franchise record as they …
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Cory Schneider Leads Moose to Win over Amerks
The last time the Rochester Americans won a home game on a Friday night was November 27th, with the loss to the Manitoba Moose on Friday they have since lost eight straight Friday night home games. That game they won in November was the game that they were up 4-0 and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins scored …
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Gameday: Amerks vs Moose, Return of Mike York
There’s no doubt that the Amerks need all the help they can get on Friday night games. They have only won one out of six Friday night games in 2010, that one game was on the road in Hamilton. No one has an answer, but its something every player and coach wants to change. Mike …
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Amerks Talk About Frustration after Tuesdays Loss
The quest for 2,000 franchise wins will have to wait for another night for the Rochester Americans as they added another loss to the standings on Tuesday night against the Manitoba Moose. The Amerks had a 2-1 lead off of goals from Jeff Taffe and Shawn Matthias just over half way through the second period …
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