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The Rochester Americans (colloquially known as the Amerks) are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League; the team is an owned and operated affiliate of the Buffalo Sabres. The team plays its home games in Rochester, New York , at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial .
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The Amerks couldn't get anything going on offense and lost Game 5 of the North Division semifinals to the Crunch, ending their season.
The Calder Cup Final ended on May 23, 1987, with the Rochester Americans defeating the Sherbrooke Canadiens four games to three to win the Calder Cup for the fifth time in team history. [2] Rochester's Dave Fenyves won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as AHL playoff MVP. [3] Sherbrooke set an AHL record for goals scored in one playoff with 85.
During the 2002–03 season, he played 15 regular season games for Buffalo. In the 2004–05 season, with the NHL not playing due to a lockout, he won 41 games for the Americans, tying Gerry Cheevers' record. He finished the season with a 2.45 GAA. In 2004–05, the Americans were the North Division and Regular Season champions in the AHL.
On April 19, 2013, the second participation of the Rochester Americans was announced on the NHL website. [10] Previously, in late 2012, Swiss media had reported that negotiations between the Spengler Cup organizing committee (Fredi Pargätzi and the Chairman of HC Davos, Gaudenz Domenig) and the AHL executive team were taking place in New York.
One involves a misdemeanor domestic assault charge, and another involves a May 2022 confrontation in a Rochester gas station. A video on Johnston's now-defunct YouTube channel showed Johnston and ...
In the 1964–65 season he won 48 games in leading the Rochester Americans to their first Calder Cup championship, becoming the final goaltender in league history to play every game (coincidentally, he did this one season after his future Bruins teammate Eddie Johnston was the final goaltender to do so in the NHL). Cheevers still holds the AHL ...