Tag:Nick Crawford
Amerks Sign Defensemen Maury Edwards and Brock Matheson
The Rochester Americans are short on defensemen for the first time this season and have added two players prior to three games in three nights starting on Thursday. Â The team signed Maury Edwards (Cincinnati Cyclones) and Brock Matheson (Stockton Thunder) to PTO’s, both from the ECHL. The Amerks lineup will be without Shaone Morrisonn who …
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Leggio Leads the Amerks to the Second Half of the Season with a Win
Another weekend has come and gone and another pair of solid performances by the Rochester Americans. Â The team finished the set of games with three out of a possible four points with an overtime loss to the Toronto Marlies on Friday and regulation win against the Hamilton Bulldogs on Saturday night. Â David Leggio has stepped …
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Another One Goal Loss, Pens Defeat Amerks in the Shootout
The Amerks picked up a point again on the road against a tough Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins team which is better than nothing. Â It came down to the skills competition where Eric Tangradi scored in the eighth round scoring top corner glove side on Drew MacIntyre for the win. Â These one goal losses and one point games …
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Amerks Gameday Notes vs the Houston Aeros
The Amerks just finished up their morning gameday skate in preparation for tonights game against the Houston Aeros, one of the top teams in the West Division. Â The Aeros have only lost three games in regulation so far this season out of a total of 21 games. Â They’ve lost two in overtime and four in …
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Amerks Earn Win with MacIntyre and Defensive Effort
There’s a couple of ways to look at the Rochester Americans 2-1 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins on Saturday night but the first way to look at it was that they won the game and Drew MacIntyre made 43 saves. Â It almost doesn’t sound right to say they played a good defensive game considering …
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Dreadful Power Play Dooms the Amerks in 3-1 Loss
A power play in hockey is pretty simple, you have the man advantage and pass the puck to get the other team out of position and then score. Â Especially when you’re given EIGHT opportunities in a game. Â Unfortunately the Amerks were not able to score and they even gave up a short handed goal in …
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Team Effort by Amerks Leads to Shootout Win (Video included)
What we have here folks is a nice three game winning streak! Â The Amerks played 60 minutes of hockey where we saw them come back from a two goal deficit to defeat the Syracuse Crunch 3-2 in a shootout on Tuesday night. Â Jacob Lagace scored the first goals for the Amerks followed by the tying …
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Recap: Amerks First Home Win Had It All, Including Seven Goals
It’s amazing how one solid hockey game can put another one in the past, even if there’s only four games played on the season. Â The Rochester Americans on Sunday evening showed what they can be capable of when all of the right pieces fall into place with a 7-2 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins. …
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Amerks Score Some Goals and Record Their First Win
The Amerks played it simple, score goals to take a lead instead of trying to play catch up and it resulted in their first win of the season. Â Once the team had the lead they definitely appeared to play with more confidence than as seen during the first two games of the season. Greg Mauldin …
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Amerks Gameday Notes, Injuries, Lineup and Attendance
As of writing this there’s about 8,700 tickets sold for tonights game and everyone is aware of the excitement and anticipation for the game tonight. Â The players are even aware that it’s their time to shine and prove to fans there’s a reason for them to keep coming back for more after the home opener. …
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Video and Updates from Amerks Morning Practice
The Amerks spent a lot of time during practice today working on full line drills, really getting into game day mode. Â One line that appeared to be getting more time than others was Derek Whitmore, Travis Turnbull and Zack Kassian. Â Some other line combinations were Michael Ryan, Colin Stuart and Mark Voakes.. Marcus Foligno and …
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Amerks Gameday Notes, Defense to Get a Look
The Rochester Americans play their one and only exhibition game tonight at 7pm at The Sports Centre at MCC (formerly ESL Centre) against The University of Western Ontario Mustangs.  Tickets to the game will be available for $5 at the door. Free admission will be granted to kids wearing their youth hockey jersey or to …
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