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Weekend Home Games: Amerks vs Crunch and Marlies

November 6, 2009 - By

After what seems like an eternity since last weekends road win in Binghamton the Amerks are finally back to action tonight against the Syracuse Crunch.  On Saturday night they’ll take on the Toronto Marlies.

The last time the Amerks and Crunch played was October 25th when Amerks shutout the Crunch 3-0.  That same game ended with a total of 54 minutes in penalties in the last 10 seconds of the game.

Rochester is currently tied for first place in the league with the Manchester Monarchs at 19 points.  The team certainly does not take their eight game winning streak for granted and they’re certainly not acting over confident.  That will be tested tonight when they play a Syracuse Crunch team that is short on players.

Derek MacKenzie and Alexandre Picard were called up this week by the Columbus Blue Jackets and center Jared Aulin is out of the lineup with a hand injury.  Simon Ferguson was signed to a PTO by the Crunch to join the team for some needed help.

During the 2008/2009 season some teams seemed to take the Amerks lightly and the games were close, that’s something that could happen in reverse [...]Read More

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Drew Larman vs Alexandre Picard Video

April 12, 2009 - By

It only took five seconds into the final game of the season between the Rochester Americans and Syracuse Crunch for a fight to occur on the ice.  The Amerks and Crunch are each others biggest rival, which is only natural considering it’s a short drive down the thruway and they also play each other 12 times a year.

Drew Larman and Alexandre Picard had been wanting to fight for the previous few games but did not have the chance until Saturday night.  Picard was on the starting lineup for the Crunch, Larman was not for the Amerks.  All it took was Picard explaining to McArdle who was on the ice.  McArdle agreed, after the puck dropped he jumped off the ice and Larman hopped on.

By definition this was one of those “staged fights” that both the AHL and NHL seem to be on a mission to put an end to.  I asked Larman about this being a staged fight and he hadn’t heard anything about things like this considered a bad thing.  Larman said, “He’s a good player.  To get him off the ice for five minutes is an advantage.”

Drew Larman isn’t a fighter, but he certainly did [...]Read More

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Strong Effort by Amerks not Enough to defeat Crunch

April 5, 2009 - By

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 first when Maksim Mayorov found the back of the net for his 16th goal of the season.  Craig MacDonald tallied his 24th assist of the year when he fed the pass up to a streaking Mayorov along the boards.  Mayorov was going one on one with Mike Caruso across the blue line, slid the puck around Caruso to the center of the ice, cut left with the puck and beat David Shantz glove side.

The Crunch forwards have learned how to skate around the Amerks defense untouched.  Hopefully that’s something that can be stopped by next weekend.

David Shantz made a spectacular save towards the end of the first period on a shot from Alexandre Picard.  The puck was in the face off circle when Picard took control of it, pulled a spin-o-rama move around Ellerby and put a quick shot on Shantz.

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Amerks Looking to End Eight Game Losing Streak Tonight

March 22, 2009 - By

Alexandre Picard of the Syracuse Crunch is going to be the player to watch in tonights game at Blue Cross Arena between the Rochester Americans and Crunch.  Picard scored a hat trick on Friday night against the Amerks and then follow that up with a four goal night on Saturday against the Albany River Rats.  In two nights Picard has increased from 9 goals on the season to 16.

Brett Parnham, who was signed on Thursday, is going to be dressed for tonights game to make his pro debut.  He scored 50 goals this season in the OHL, second behind the expected 2009 #1 draft pick John Tavares.  He’s here on a tryout to see if he’s able to fit in with the level of play in the AHL.  Hopefully his excitement is able to carry over onto the ice to provide some sort of spark.

I expect that Tyler Plante will be getting the start in goal for the Amerks.  That’s just a guess, did not have the chance to get to the morning skate today.  Hopefully the defense will provide some support for the fast skating Crunch unlike the loss on Friday night.

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Alexandre Picard Hat Trick Leads Crunch to Victory

March 20, 2009 - By

(Syracuse, NY) The Rochester Americans have successfully extended their losing streak to eight games with tonights 5-2 loss against the Syracuse Crunch.  Alexandre Picard scored a hat trick to lead the Crunch to victory.  This team has not won a game since March 1st when they defeated the Binghamton Senators 3-2.  Entering the month of March it appeared as if the Amerks were going to end the season on a high note, instead they’ve spent the month putting together the worst losing streak of the season.

The game started off well though, maybe too well.

Janis Sprukts returned to action tonight after missing the last nine games with a shoulder injury and his prescence was immediately noticed.  Sprukts did a great job leading the power play unit and setting up the play that led to the first goal of the game by Randall Gelech at 7:37 of the first period, also assisted by Shawn Matthias.

The best scoring chance of the first period for the Crunch was Nikita Filatov streaking down the left side, wrapped around the net, tried to pass the puck to Craig MacDonald, but Duco was there to trip MacDonald to the ice and took the penalty [...]Read More

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