Luukkonen’s last-minute heroics save Amerks
A 3-0 second-period lead had already been whittled to 3-2, and now the Utica Comets had the greatest of great chances to tie it with 33 seconds remaining…
Bogosian is an Amerk, sort of but not really
Zach Bogosian, 29, no longer fits into the plans of the Sabres coaching staff and went unclaimed Friday into Saturday during the 24-hour waiver period. He hasn’t played since Feb. 4 and was a healthy scratch in 17 of Buffalo’s previous 26 games heading into the weekend…
Hamacher’s hatty leads RIT past Bentley
Hamacher had that night on Friday. He scored three goals off the aforementioned plays and paced Rochester Institute of Technology to a 4-1 victory over Bentley University at the Gene Polisseni Center…
Amerks winning streak comes to an abrupt end
Despite playing a team that has been a solid rival all season, and for most of a quarter century, the Rochester Americans displayed little passion and lost 5-2 to the Syracuse Crunch on Friday night at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial…
Wilson finding the scoring touch again as Amerks win 4th straight
Scott Wilson scored a pair of goals, both off passes from rookie defenseman Jacob Bryson, and set up a breakaway goal by Casey Mittelstadt as the Amerks defeated the Syracuse Crunch 4-2 at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial…
Newest Amerks Hall of Famer Pittis knew all about scoring and winning
With his slick passing and desire to be the best he could be on every shift, Domenic Pittis led the Amerks to the Calder Cup finals in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. He was the teams leading scorer both seasons, and again in 2003-04 when he returned for an encore before taking his career to Europe…
RIT after four-goal third period: ‘We weren’t letting down the alumni’
Trailing 4-1 after two periods, the Tigers rallied for a 5-4 victory over Canisius in front of 3,463 raucous fans on Saturday night at the Gene Polisseni Center…
RIT takes a skate down Frozen Four memory lane
It has been nine years and 10 months since an unheralded, never-regarded group of hockey players put Rochester Institute of Technology on the national map…
Amerk fans flock to see Jim Kelly
The line of Kelly autograph seekers stretched from the landing in the atrium, where he signed, through the concourse along the river side of Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial and continued all the way to the Caraglio’s pizza stand in the southeast corner of the building…
Slumps end for Oglevie, Malone as Amerks defeat Laval
Losers of seven straight before a 3-2 overtime victory in Cleveland on Wednesday, the Amerks continued their return to a more passionate style of play by dispatching of Laval in convincing fashion…