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New Amerks Coach, Ron Rolston

July 25, 2011 - By
New Amerks Coach, Ron Rolston

The “Twitterverse” news spread quick this afternoon from a tweet by @CapCareyWDT stating that Ron Rolston will be named the new Head Coach of the Rochester Americans.  Cap Carey is a sportswriter for the Watertown (NY) Daily Times, primarily covering Clarkson Men’s Hockey.

No one else has been able to confirm this news at this time, no reason to not believe Cap Carey at this time though.

Updated 7/26: This is confirmed. Again, was no reason to doubt Cap Carey, just pointing out this has been confirmed.

As the head coach of the Under-18 USA Hockey Natonal Team Development Program he would fit the role of what the Buffalo Sabres are looking to continute doing, developing young players.

From Wikipedia:

Ron Rolston (born October 14, 1966 in Fenton, Michigan) is an Americanice hockeycoach. He is the head coach of the Under-18 team at the USA Hockey National Team Development Program. In June 2008, he was named head coach of the American team at the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He [...]Read More

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Amerks New Head Coach is Benoit Groulx

August 21, 2008 - By

First reported by TSN, the new coach of the Rochester Americans is going to be Benoit Groulx (pronounded Groo, the L and X are silent, I believe).  We appear to have been thrown a curve ball at our meeting with Steve Donner when he said it’d be someone not yet mentioned, or unexpected.  This is a great coaching choice, and he must see some chances at winning for him to have left his current position.

Here’s the report from the National Post

Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Benoit Groulx is reportedly out as head coach of the Canadian world junior hockey team.

The 40-year-old has accepted a job to take over as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Rochester Americans, meaning he won’t be available to the junior team when it takes to the ice this December in Ottawa for the IIHF world junior hockey championship.

TSN reported Wednesday night that Groulx will not be behind the bench for Canada when it attempts to win a fifth straight tournament.

Groulx will replace Randy Cunneyworth as coach in Rochester. Cunneyworth accepted a job as assistant coach of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers last month. Rochester finished [...]Read More

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