Author:Keith Wozniak
Duffy Sent to Everblades; Beaverson to Amerks – UPDATED
Matt Duffy is on the Everblades playoff roster but isn’t in Florida just yet since he played with the Amerks on Wednesday night in Toronto. ———————- The Florida Everblades put together their final playoff roster and one of the players included was Matt Duffy on defense, and another not included was Luke Beaverson who was …
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Chris Beckford-Tseu Reassigned to Rochester
The Rochester Americans have Chris Beckford-Tseu back on the team after the Florida Panthers reassigned him from the Phoenix Roadrunners. Beckford-Tseu played on game with the Florida Everblades before heading to Phoenix where he went on to register a 2-7-1 record with a 5.09 goals-against average and a .863 save percentage in 12 games with …
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Jacques Martin and Curt Styres to Hold Amerks Press Conference
Amerks fans may finally get some reassurance about the future of the team and the direction that it is headed on Wednesday afternoon. The team has announced a press conference with Amerks Owner Curt Styres and Florida Panthers General Manager Jacques Martin at Blue Cross Arena. It’ll be broadcast live on Amerks.com starting at 12:30. …
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Amerks Forward Karl Stewart Heading to Germany
The news that Karl Stewart had signed to play with the German League’s Straubing Tigers next season popped up on the internet on Monday afternoon, about six days earlier than he had hoped. The 25 year old winger was considered one of the “older guys” on the team. He’s been a goal scorer this season …
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Second Period Snoozefest Leads to Amerks Loss
The Amerks were shutout 3-0 against the Grand Rapids Griffins on Sunday evening at the Blue Cross Arena. The first period was decent with great plays on each side of the ice, unfortunately the game became a snooze fest if you were an Amerks fan. This was a different team than we saw the two …
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Beaudry Released; Brodeur Capable of Playing
Miguel Beaudry packed his equipment after the game when he was told thanks for being the backup and that he was being released from the Rochester Americans. He’ll be on his way back to Rapid City to spend the summer. Beaudry was called up on April 2nd when the Amerks needed a backup due to …
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Strong Effort by Amerks not Enough to defeat Crunch
The Syracuse Crunch are undefeated at home this season against the Rochester Americans and continued that streak on Saturday night with a 3-2 win in front of 6,117 fans at the War Memorial. Unlike previous contests between the two teams in Syracuse the Amerks put in a solid effort on the ice. The Crunch scored …
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Sprukts and Shantz Lead Amerks to Win
The one thing that Rochester Americans can still play for is the role of spoiler. They did a good job tonight by winning 4-2 over the Binghamton Senators and can try again on Saturday in Syracuse. The Senators and Crunch are both in the hunt for the playoffs and each team needs every point they …
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Amerks Call up Goaltender Miguel Beaudry
The Rochester Americans have called up goaltender Miguel Beaudry from the Rapid City Rush of the Central Hockey League. Apparently my April Fools Day post wasn’t that far fetched, except they went with someone other than Chris Beckford-Tseu. The 26 year old goaltender finished this season in the CHL with a 16-20-6 record with a …
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Updates on Brodeur, Plante, and Glass
If Franklin MacDonald gets another crack at a shootout the next move he may pull off is spinning around, skating backwards with his back to the goalie, and then at the last minute spinning around again to get a shot off. It’s become normal for the team to practice shootouts at the end and while …
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Beckford-Tseu Recalled to Backup Shantz
With injuries keeping Mike Brodeur and Tyler Plante off the ice for games this weekend against Binghamton and Syracuse, Chris Beckford-Tseu has been called up from the Phoenix Roadrunners in the ECHL to backup David Shantz. We could go into details about the stats of Beckford-Tseu, but I think everyone is familiar with his performance. …
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Amerks Officially Assign Micflikier to Everblades
We mentioned it here first on Sunday night and it was officially announced today that the Amerks have assigned Jacob Micflikier to the Florida Everblades. We hope he takes the opportunity to lead the Blades to the Kelly Cup to help guarantee himself a contract next season. For Immediate Release March 31, 2009 AMERKS ASSIGN …
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