Amerks Defeat Marlies in Overtime

The Rochester Americans defeated the Toronto Marlies in overtime on Wednesday night by the final score of 5-4.  Randal Gelech scored the game winning goal at 1:53 in overtime, assisted by Stefan Meyer.  Due to other commitments (sons hockey practice), I didn’t get the chance to watch or listen to the game, so here’s the …
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Jacques Martin and Curt Styres Press Conference

It’s pretty exciting (for me at least) that the 500th post on this web site is also a post with what should be a lot of great news regarding the future of the Rochester Americans and Florida Panthers affiliation (not just a ‘yay 500 posts’).  Jacques Martin (General Manager of the Florida Panthers) and Curt …
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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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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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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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