For just the second time this season, the Rochester Americans (39-20-3-2) dropped back-to-back regulation losses on the road as they come up short in a 3-1 penalty-filled matchup to the Charlotte Checkers (41-15-6-1) Saturday at Bojangles Coliseum. Tonight’s game was the second in as many nights and the final meeting of the four-game season series between the two teams…
Winners of four straight and 10 of their past 12, the Amerks (39-18-3-2) now head to Charlotte (39-15-6-1) to play the league’s best team on Friday and Saturday…
In improving to 38-18-3-2, the Amerks moved back ahead of the idle Syracuse Crunch by a point in the AHL’s North Division, 81-80. The Amerks also are just four points behind Charlotte for first overall in the Eastern Conference…
While working in a Buffalo gym, Weisbeck overheard a conversation then-Rochester Americans coach John Van Boxmeer was having. The Amerks, Van Boxmeer was telling a friend, needed a medical trainer because Jim Pizzutelli had been promoted to the Buffalo Sabres…
On the strength of a pair of goals from forwards Taylor Leier and Victor Olofsson, as well as a two-point (1+1) night from Alexander Nylander, the Rochester Americans (37-18-3-2) won their fifth straight road contest by a 5-3 score over the Binghamton Devils (24-33-5-0) Saturday at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena…
In playing one of their most complete games of the season, the Amerks halted Bridgeport’s seven-game winning streak and improved to 36-18-3-2. The Sound Tigers had earned 19 of a possible 20 points in their past 10 games and gained a solid hold of second place in the AHL’s Atlantic Division…
With a chance to extend their lead in the American Hockey League’s North Division to four points, the Amerks instead stumbled. Undisciplined play led to three power-play goals (on eight chances) for the Crunch…
Four different skaters turned in multi-point efforts to lead the Rochester Americans (35-17-3-2) to a 5-3 victory over the Syracuse Crunch (34-17-3-2) Saturday night at the War Memorial Arena in the first game a weekend home-and-home series between the two teams…
Thanks in part to a pair of third-period goals from Victor Olofsson and Remi Elie, as well as a near-perfect performance from goaltender Scott Wedgewood, the Rochester Americans (34-17-3-2) closed out the month of February with a 3-1 victory over the North Division rival Utica Comets (29-21-5-2) Wednesday night at Adirondack Bank Center…
The Amerks let 1-0 and 2-1 leads disappear in the second period, then, unlike Friday in Utica when they rallied from 3-down to win 4-3, they couldn’t beat Senators goalie Marcus Hogberg in the third period…