With three straight unanswered goals over the final 22 minutes of regulation, the first-place Rochester Americans (32-16-3-2) flipped a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 victory over the Cleveland Monsters (24-23-6-1) Wednesday night at The Blue Cross Arena…
The Amerks (31-16-3-2) dropped out of first place by percentage points with Friday’s 1-0 loss to Syracuse but now have a three-point cushion on the Crunch, 67-64…
In the second game in as many days of the home-and-home series between the Rochester Americans (30-16-3-2) and the Syracuse Crunch (30-15-2-2), newcomer Taylor Leier netted the only goal in a six-round shootout to lift the Amerks past the Crunch, 3-2, Saturday at the War Memorial Arena. The win snaps Rochester’s three-game slide and moves the Amerks back atop the AHL’s North Division standings heading into Sunday’s weekend finale against Binghamton…
The Amerks (29-16-3-2) and Crunch (30-15-2-1) both have 63 points, but Syracuse has played one fewer games and thus has a better points-earned percentage (.656 to .630)…
Even with Tuesday night’s defeat, the Amerks have collected 17 out of a possible 24 points in their last 12 games and maintain their first-place lead atop the AHL’s North Division standings going into home-and-home series with the Syracuse Crunch. Rochester has also notched 25 points in its last 19 games dating back to a 4-0 shutout win in Cleveland on Dec. 26…
Cut by the Toronto Marlboros heading into the 1971-72 season, he spent the year playing right wing for their Junior B team, then began making plans to attend the University of Western Ontario in London…
Olofsson may lobby for the stars and stripes to become the every-night sweater. He scored his first professional hat trick and had an assist as the Amerks thumped the Springfield Thunderbirds 7-1…
The third-period collapse was reminiscent of the Jan. 26 game in Syracuse, when the Crunch turned a 2-1, two-period deficit into a 4-3 overtime win, largely because of the 20-4 shot domination in the third period…
C.J. Smith and Eric Cornel each scored twice and Jonas Johansson stopped all but one of the 35 shots he faced as the Rochester Americans (28-13-3-1) closed out their three-game road swing with a convincing 4-1 victory over the Hartford Wolf Pack (19-23-3-2) at XL Center on Saturday night…
Taylor Leier scored the Amerks first goal in Wednesday’s 7-5 win over Binghamton and on Friday night scored the winning goal in the tiebreaker shootout as the Amerks edged the Utica Comets 3-2 at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial…