There’s almost always more than one way to look at a game, especially a loss. You can look at it as being a close game and getting a point on the road is acceptable or you can start to pull your hair out due to frustration at the apparent downhill slide. The Amerks have now lost 10 games by one goal. You could even push that number to 11 since Albany scored an empty net goal on December 4th to win 4-2 so that’s more like a one goal loss than anything else.
One thing that didn’t help the Amerks was that Colin Stuart was called up to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday morning due to Patrick Kaleta not being able to play. They had thought Kaleta would play so everyone went on the road trip. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of flights Stuart had to take to get from San Antonio to Buffalo.
This Rochester Americans team is having to rely on defense and goaltending and unfortunately a defensive turnover by Drew Schiestel is what led to a Bill Thomas breakaway to score the game winner in overtime. There’s very little offense being generated and the only [...]Read More
