The Rochester Americans won their 5th game of the season tonight against the Syracuse Crunch and it also counted as the Amerks 14th win of the season. I think it’s time to say that this team is the real deal.
“I was worried to be honest because we have not played for quite a bit, but we had some good practices during the week and our guys showed how serious they were tonight,” Benoit Groulx said after the game. “And it paid off.”
The obvious star of the game was Keaton Ellerby who scored his first hat trick and the first Amerks hat trick since 2006 when Stefan Meyer scored three in a game. The look on Ellerby’s face above is priceless.
The first goal of the game at 7:18 of the first was a great combination of two things. Mike Duco created a perfect screen in front of Dan LaCosta and Ellerby followed through with a great wrist shot from the face off circle.
Jimmy Bonneau and Brett Gallant got into a nice scrap half way through the first period:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETGITyNUJr4
Steve MacIntyre and Jon Mirasty also got involved in an epic battle half way [...]Read More