By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA Two games, same team, two vastly different performances. And two vastly different outcomes, which is why the Rochester Americans will be playing at least one more game this season. On Wednesday, the Amerks played a game fit for a three-in-three weekend in November, not the Calder Cup playoffs. As a result, they weren’t even competitive, losing 5-0 on … [Read more...] about Amerks blank Marlies to force deciding game
Lettieri, Marlies overwhelm listless Amerks in playoff opener
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA The refrain in every sport as the regular season winds down is the same: be playing your best heading into the playoffs. The opposite was true for the Rochester Americans, however. They lost their last five and eight of the final 11, needing a near-Herculean effort to get to overtime to earn a point in Sunday’s regular-season finale at Hershey just to … [Read more...] about Lettieri, Marlies overwhelm listless Amerks in playoff opener
After 40 years as Voice of the Amerks, Stevens is saying goodbye
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA He once broadcast high school football games from a platform affixed to a light pole, suspended a dozen or so feet above the ground. There were no stairs, just rungs sticking out of the pole. That was how Don Stevens was welcomed into the glamorous world of small-market radio in Nebraska in 1969. Not long after, he called a playoff football game … [Read more...] about After 40 years as Voice of the Amerks, Stevens is saying goodbye
Playoff berth still in jeopardy as Amerks lose to Cleveland
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA Somehow it just seems fitting that, on the final weekend of the regular season, that after 70 games have already been played, this 70th edition of the Rochester Americans still hasn’t clinched what so far has been an elusive playoff berth. This team has never really done things the easy way, so why wouldn’t their hopes of tearing open the invitation to … [Read more...] about Playoff berth still in jeopardy as Amerks lose to Cleveland
Amerks upend AHL-leading Providence on Costantini’s OT goal
By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA It has long been a tradition in hockey that when you play your former team, you put up reward money on the dressing room white board for whoever scores the winning goal. Trevor Kuntar wouldn’t say how much Saturday evening’s 2-1 overtime victory by the Rochester Americans over the Providence Bruins cost him, other than to say “a lot. A lot.” He did, … [Read more...] about Amerks upend AHL-leading Providence on Costantini’s OT goal