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Cheesy Title Time.. Amerks Crunch Syracuse!

October 13, 2009 - By

If the Amerks can continue the style of game they played on Monday night they should be able to start winning some fans back into the building.

Everyone scored who is supposed to score.  The four goals were scored by Chris Taylor, Graham Mink, Jeff Taffe, and Michal Repik.  Four players that are here for that reason.

The goaltending was exciting to watch.  Alexander Salak was all over the ice… literally.  Sprawling all over the place with his arms, his legs, his stick, his body.  To say he played with an unorthodox style is an understatement.  He’s likely to raise the blood pressure of everyone in attendance.

Crunch goaltender Dan LaCosta stopped 11 of 12 shots faced in the second and a majority of those were great saves.  The Amerks were throwing pucks at him from all over the place and he continued to stop them.

Continuing on with the Amerks….

The Amerks killed off six Crunch power play opportunities, two of those were 5 on 3′s.

They were not pushed around by a “tougher” team.

They scored two power play goals.

Eight out of 18 skaters (excluding the goalies) for the Amerks scored a point in the game.  If [...]Read More

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Amerks Defeat the Crunch with a Strong Performance

September 30, 2009 - By

The Amerks won a game on the road in Syracuse.  Amazing.  What an odd drive home that was talking about how well the team played instead of the other way around.  With two minutes left in the game my sons face lit up with excitement that he finally saw a win in Syracuse, something he’s never witnessed before in his life.

Ok, back to ground level, it was only a preseason game.. but I’ll take it.

The team that played on Tuesday night in Syracuse was a completely different team than the one that played on Sunday night.  The team had some chemistry, some cohesion, the passes were crisp, bodies were thrown around, goals were scored, and there was blood.  What more can you ask for in a hockey game?

I knew we were in for a good game when players were chirping at each other during warmups.   Trevor Gillies for the Amerks was stretching near the red line at the end of warmups when a couple of pucks came across the ice in his direction.  How did they get there?  Kevin Harvey of the Syracuse Crunch.  Warmups ended with Gillies tossing a puck back towards Gillies and the two [...]Read More

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Another Tough Guy, Trevor Gillies Invited to Camp

September 15, 2009 - By

Last summer at this time we were excited that Steve MacIntyre had been signed over the summer and was going to provide some toughness on the ice.  MacIntyre didn’t even make it through half the practice before we learned that the Edmonton Oilers had claimed him off waivers.  Once he left the two other tough guys on the roster were Ryan James Hand and James DeLory, both were cut.

Everything is different this season.  The latest tough guy to be invited to camp is Trevor Gillies.

If you’re a fan of the rough side of hockey you will not want to miss the Amerks only home preseason game on Sunday September 27th against the Syracuse Crunch at ESL Centre.  The Amerks and Crunch will play again two days later in Syracuse.

Players that can fight who’re expected to be at camp: Trevor Gillies, Mike Sgroi, Thomas Harrison, James DeLory, Mike Duco could possibly be back from the Panthers as well.. oh and Adam Keefe could be sent down as well.

This team has the potential to score a ton of goals, have a strong defense, and a fourth line that could beat up the opposing team.  Oh and Alexander Salak [...]Read More

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Tough Guy Mike Sgroi Invited to Amerks Camp

September 11, 2009 - By

The calls for an enforcer for the upcoming season could be answered, tough guy Mike Sgroi has been invited to the Amerks training camp on a tryout contract.  Thanks to Lyndsay Kramer (covers the Syracuse Crunch) for reporting the info.

Apparently Ted Nolan has shown interest in Sgroi and called to invite him to camp.  In Kramers blog he quoted Sgroi talking about Nolan saying, “He’s done his homework,” Sgroi said. “He’s called everyone I’ve known or played with.”

Sgroi has made the rounds over the past decade playing for 20 different teams, the Amerks will be team number 21.  In the American Hockey League Sgroi has played for the Syracuse Crunch, Binghamton Senators, Chicago Wolves, Rockford IceHogs, Albany River Rats, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, and the Norfolk Admirals.

Doing some research on Sgroi the few reasons I can find for him bouncing around so much is due to injuries and some of his “side show” antics with his fights.  I’m not really sure what that means, but if he can stay healthy and play smart he sounds like a great player fans would love to see every night.

One thing that separates him from other enforcers is that he’s also [...]Read More

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2011 All Star Game, vs Pirates, Diff Divisions, Misc

July 2, 2009 - By

The big news of the day on Tuesday was that the Amerks hired Ted Nolan as the new VP of Hockey Operations.  I had the chance to talk to Rochester Americans Owner Curt Styres about a few other things that I felt were newsworthy.

The team did formally submit a bid for the 2011 AHL All Star Classic to be hosted in Rochester, something I first mentioned January 28th.  Styres was not sure if any other teams had put in a bid for the game.  The game in 2011 will be the 75th Anniversary of the league so American Hockey League President David Andrews had hinted that he was hoping to have the game be in either Hershey or Rochester.  Styres said that at a recent Board of Governors meeting Andrews asked if anyone wanted to host the game and then looked directly at Styres.

The Rochester Americans and Syracuse Crunch will be in different divisions next season.  He said that he believes the teams will be playing each other eight times, down from 12 during the 2008/2009 season.

Styres did not have any other information about divisions or schedule formats.  It sounds like the schedule is pretty much [...]Read More

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Florida Panthers Interested in Andrew Peters?

June 25, 2009 - By

Apparently Andrew Peters and the Florida Panthers have talked of a potential two way deal for next season.  I hope that Curt Styres, Lewis Staats, and Jody Gage have all called Randy Sexton to tell him that this would be a terrible idea.  If it turns out that any of them thought this was a great idea it will hurt their image amongst the fans.  We’ve been promised that the Panthers would be active during free agency in building up a winning team in Rochester, let’s hope that this is not the start.

Based on the fact that it would be a two way deal I could not imagine that the Panthers would actually want him playing for them in the NHL.

I’m not one to jump on rumors and write about them, but this one deserved a post in hopes that it does not happen.  It seems as if I’m not alone either based on the reaction by some dedicated fans on Rochester Sports Fan where this story originated from.

Andrew Peters played in an Amerks uniform for three seasons from 2000 – 2003, played in 173 games, and spent 729 minutes in the penalty box.  During that [...]Read More

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Amerks Led By Brodeur Shut-Out the Crunch

December 15, 2008 - By

The Amerks finally snapped a 13 game losing streak against thruway rivals Syracuse Crunch by shutting them out 1-0 at Blue Cross Arena.  It was yet another game of stellar goaltending from Mike Brodeur who is now 4-2-0 since joining the team, this being his second shut-out.  Mike Brodeur was the first star of the game and also the first star of the day in the American Hockey League with 30 saves on the night.

Kenndal McCardle scored the only goal for the Amerks at 7:47 of the first period.  The play started when Jacob Micflikier shot the puck from the face off circle, Stefan Meyer grabbed the rebound and put it back on the net where McCardle was able to put it away for his fifth of the season.

The Crunch had some decent scoring opportunities, especially in the third period.  Derek MacKenzie had a great chance when he took the puck in almost all alone when the Crunch were short handed in the third period, Brodeur made the save but Peter Aston and Noah Welch also showed great hustle getting back and slowing him down.  Maksim Mayorov had another great chance after he received an excellent [...]Read More

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Videos of Saturday Night Fights

October 26, 2008 - By

Riley Emmerson, Mike Duco, Tanner Glass, Jon Mirasty, Ryan Garlock, and Dan Smith.. A Saturday night of fights between the Rochester Americans and Syracuse Crunch! I think I shrunk them down too much and lost some quality, will work on uploading clearer videos later.

Mike Duco vs Ryan Garlock

Round 1 – Jon Mirasty vs Riley Emmerson

Round 2 – Jon Mirasty vs Riley Emmerson

Tanner Glass vs Dan Smith – This never went any further due to Smiths injured thumb.

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Amerks Lose Home Opener to Crunch

October 11, 2008 - By

It may sound like a familiar story, the Rochester Americans lose to the Syracuse Crunch, but what sets this one apart from last season is that the team put in a solid effort.  The Crunch had a few lucky bounces, and the Amerks appeared to have scored a goal but the light never went on.  The final score was 4-3.

Maybe someone can help out on that one.  I believe it was in the second period, a shot appeared to have went into the net and bounced right back out.  The goal light did not go on, and very few people seemed to have noticed.

The team put in a solid effort, never gave up.  There was one point in the second period where it seemed like the game was going south, but they picked up the slack.  The guys did well against a more talented and faster Crunch.  The team is still new (7 rookies, 2 second year players among 18 players), once they get a few games together and have more game play experience we’ll hope for better results.

It was impressive seeing Benoit Groulx and Jason Cipolla working hard behind the bench.  Benoit was constantly [...]Read More

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Neil Clark vs Jon Mirasty October 10, 2008

October 10, 2008 - By

Neil Clark and Jon Mirasty dropped the gloves at the first game of the 08/09 season at Blue Cross Arena. The anticipated match up for opening night had been between heavyweight Steve MacIntyre and Jon Mirasty, but the Edmonton Oilers ruined that when they claimed “Big Mac” off of waivers on the first day of Amerks training camp.

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Amerks and Crunch End of Season Brawl

June 17, 2008 - By

At one of the last regular season games between the Rochester Americans and Syracuse Crunch nine out of ten players on the ice got into a fight. The Amerks were pushed around the entire season by the Crunch, it was sad that it took all season for something like this to happen. I managed to record this video from our seats as the events unfolded.

(This fight had happened on April 11, 2008 even though this article was posted in June 2008)

It was disappointing that Anthony Stewart wasn’t willing to quickly drop his gloves with Mirasty. Mirasty isn’t a small dude, but neither is Stewart. Stewarts excuse was that the linesman had already grabbed him and pushed him towards the penalty box. Yet Mirasty managed to skate away and continue fighting.

Mirasty got away and was third man in on a scuffle between Lojek and not sure who else, at that point Tyler Plante took a stroll out and pulled him off. He later said he had no idea he was pulling Mirasty off and second guessed himself at that point (i would too)!

Mike Funk and Derick Brassard were doing some dancing around, they both fell to the [...]Read More

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