Photo: Michaeline Veluvolu Rochester Americans captain Michael Mersch has announced his retirement from professional hockey, completing a 10-year playing career that featured more than 600 professional games. A native of Park Ridge, Ill., Mersch spent his final four seasons in Rochester, including three as team captain. He recorded 156 points in 220 games with the…
Photo: Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images The Buffalo Sabres have promoted Rochester Americans head coach Seth Appert to assistant coach of the National Hockey League club, joining the staff of new Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff. Appert, 49, has served as head coach of the Amerks since the 2020-21 season, compiling a record of 123-94-22-10…
Brett Murray cleaned up a rebound with 11:46 gone in overtime to give Rochester a 4-3 win over Syracuse on Saturday night, completing a season-saving rally and sending the teams’ North Division semifinal series to a winner-take-all Game 5. Facing elimination and a three-goal deficit at the start of the third period, the Amerks got…
Photo: Micheline Veluvolu Isak Rosén scored with 9:39 left in regulation to send the Rochester Americans to a 3-2 win over the Syracuse Crunch in the opener of their North Division semifinal series on Friday night. Game 2 of the best-of-five is set for Sunday afternoon. Highly regarded Sabres prospects Anton Wahlberg and Noah Östlund…
The Rochester Americans clinched a berth in the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs on Friday night by virtue of the Utica Comets’ 5-4 overtime loss to Providence. The Amerks are heading to the postseason for the fifth consecutive time. They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals last spring before falling to Hershey. Rochester has won the…
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer The math hardly looked too favorable a month ago. But fighting for a North Division title is right where the Rochester Americans expected to be. Rochester is a team, after all, that went to the Eastern Conference Finals last season, and had returned enough of that talent to be considered…
by Andrew Mossbrooks | AHL On The Beat “I went 18 years thinking I was perfectly healthy until I wasn’t one day.” Those are the words of Rochester Americans forward Damien Giroux, a player that is all smiles despite challenges that few in or outside the hockey world have faced at his age. Giroux, 23,…
Jan 18, 2024 By Warren Kosel They say playing hockey outdoors takes you back to your roots. To a time when the game was most fun and being on the ice from sunup to sundown was all you cared about. Quite simply, it’s hockey in its purest form. A glimmering sheet of ice…
Photo: Jacob Kupferman CHARLOTTE, N.C. … The Charlotte Checkers scored three times in the third period to pull away for a 5-2 victory over the Rochester Americans in the Queen City Outdoor Classic on Saturday night. A standing-room only crowd of 11,031 fans watched the hometown Checkers win the 12th outdoor game in American Hockey…
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Charlotte Checkers defenseman Casey Fitzgerald thinks back to his previous two outdoor games and the sights and sounds that they presented. Seth Appert, the head coach of the Rochester Americans, remembers his time skating back on the frozen Mississippi River in Minnesota. And Checkers chief operating officer Tera Black? She…
