Amerks Continue Their Losing Streak…Lose To Manchester

The Amerks put up a good fight, but couldn’t get past the Manchester Monarchs tonight.  They lost 4-2 to the Manchester Monarchs in a hard fought game.
Chris Beckford-Tseu started the night in goal even though I would have liked to see Shantz in from the beginning.  Chris was pulled in the first period after allowing [...]

Practice 11-20-2008: The Red Army Leaves

“What’d you think of the game last night?”  The first thing Benoit says to the team when he gets on the ice.  “Now it’s over, behind us…tomorrow, it’s different.  Forget about last night, work hard.  Do not think about last night, it’s over.  Now we practice hard and work for tomorrow.”
Karl Stewart, Janis Sprukts and [...]

Gameday in Rochester vs. Manitoba Moose 11-07-2008

Another home game in Rochester tonight.  The Amerks will take on the Manitoba Moose for the 3rd time this season.  In their first two meetings in Manitoba, the Moose won both games 3-1 and 4-1.  I would be hard pressed to find a person who doesn’t think this is going to happen again tonight.  But, [...]

Practice 11-06-08: Have we hit rock bottom yet?

It’s another day and another practice here at the ever so clean Blue Cross Arena.  It really is a clean arena, the cleaning crews either do a great job, or when you only have 1,000 people at a 10,000 seat venue it’s going to be an easy cleaning job.  Oh yea, the players are on [...]

Amerks’ Practice 11-03-2008: Back To The Grind

Jody Gage was just on the bench talking first to Jacob Micflikier and then to Andrew Sweetland.  I don’t know what that was about, but if they are going to send Micflikier away it would be a crying shame.  He is a bright spot on this team.  Andrew Sweetland I often forget exists, so if [...]

Game-day Skate 11-01-2008: No Rest For The Weary

After a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Marlies last night, the Amerks are back on the ice preparing for their second game of the weekend tonight against the Hamilton Bulldogs.  The Bulldogs are hot right now, and if the Amerks think they are going to get a win out of them they need to play [...]

Thursday Morning Amerks’ Practice 10-23-2008

Here we are again at the arena (my son’s favorite thing to do on a Thursday morning).  Practice isn’t under way yet, but there is someone on the ice…

Jordan Henry is skating by himself right now.  Doing some good ol’ fashion skating drills on his own.  He looks pretty good.  Hopefully, that knee sprain is [...]

Collect Amerk Player Photo’s

If you were able to attend the Amerks fun fest you were able to collect glossy phoot’s from each of the players.  For anyone who’s into collecting autographs and memorabilia these are excellent.  Every player has a signature pad that is a stack of the glossy photo’s of themselves that they can easily autograph and [...]

Amerks Injury Update; Update on Fitzpatrick

Rory Fitzpatrick was hit hard into the boards by Moose rookie winger Brandon Sawada on Saturday night, he may have suffered a concussion.  He’ll be examined by team doctors this week to determine his status.
If he is unable to play, the good news is that rookie Keaton Ellerby may finally be able to play.  He’s [...]

Prospects in the Everblades

The Florida Everblades are the ECHL affiliate of the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes.  They are also the AHL affiliate of the Rochester Americans and Albany River Rats.
The Everblades start their 08/09 regular season on Friday night against the Charlotte Checkers.  Incidently, the Checkers just sign Amerks alumni Sean McMorrow.
A number of players on this [...]