The Buffalo Sabres followed up the Tuesday morning firing of management staff to announce that the Rochester Americans coaching staff was fired as well. That included Head Coach Chris Taylor along with assistants Gord Dineen and Toby Petersen. All three had been behind the Amerks bench for the last three seasons. Combining the last 3 …
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The Buffalo Sabres made headlines Tuesday morning by announcing that General Manager Jason Botterill has been fired along with Assistant GM’s Randy Sexton and Steve Greeley. The team has named Kevyn Adams as the new General Manager. Later in the day the organization also fired the entire Rochester Americans coaching staff of Chris Taylor, Gord …
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The Rochester Americans 2019-2020 season didn’t end as planed, like many other teams, but an estimated $8.7 million in upgrades to Blue Cross Arena in the City of Rochester has started as planned. Construction started this month and the projects listed below with an anticipated completion in spring 2022. These uprgrades were originally proposed in …
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There had been rumblings over the last few days that the organization was going to sign forward Jesper Olofsson and the news was made official today. The Rochester Americans announced that Olofsson (the older brother of Victor) has signed a one-year American Hockey League contract. His numbers have improved season over season and the signing …
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Updated August 3, 2020 The American Hockey League season was officially cancelled and now it’s time to start looking towards the 2020/2021 season for the Rochester Americans. As of publishing this article on May 19, 2020 there’s a total of 22 players that are considered unrestricted free agents that were on either NHL or AHL …
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The 2019-202 American Hockey League season has officially been cancelled. Something that everyone knew would happen but hadn’t officially been announced yet. The press release from the league is below. All the answers to your questions regarding the cancellation of the 2019-20 Season ⬇ï¸https://t.co/BwigSt8HfC pic.twitter.com/tbSJYxV5og — Rochester Americans (@AmerksHockey) May 11, 2020 *** SPRINGFIELD, …
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There’s always a first signing in the off-season and Dominic Franco is that player and he’s also the first player to sign a professional contract following a rule change. Franco signed an American Hockey League contract with the Rochester Americans for the 2020-2021 season (whenever that will be). The rule change is a memorandum that …
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It was only a matter of time before news would start coming out regarding players going oversea’s but I didn’t expect that first bit of news to be related to now former Rochester Americans defenseman Zach Redmond. The German team EHC Red Bull Munich announed that they have signed Redmond for the 2020-2021 season. Redmond …
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It’s been 44 days since the Rochester Americans last skated on the ice together as a team and it continues to look like that’ll go down as the last game of the 2019-2020 season. Pierre LeBrun has reported about the American Hockey League season on TSN saying that “the chances are pretty much zero” and …
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Welcome to the same site but now with a new name! For a variety of reasons it was time to rename the site so that the word ‘Amerks’ was no longer in the name and this is it – say hello to LGA585. Still the same site ownership, content, ideas, thoughts, etc etc.. the only difference …
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The American Hockey League executive team held a meeting Monday and the decision was made that the indefinite suspension will not be lifted before May. No indication has been given at this time whether that means some regular season games and playoffs can still be played, shortening both, or just jumping into some playoff hockey …
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The American Hockey League has followed behind the NHL in pausing the 2019/2020 season for the time being due to COVID-19 aka coronavirus pandemic. There haven’t been any direct cases related to the American League but following NBA player Rudy Gobert testing positive everything started to take a turn. The leagues all have indirect connections …
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