Amerks8796

The Amerks haven’t won a playoff series in 16 years. 16!! What you described is not winning. It’s nothing. It produces no excitement, generates no new fans, and has rendered a once powerhouse franchise mostly irrelevant.

The Pegulas run everything afar from Buffalo as far as pricing, and from what I’ve heard they don’t provide much of a budget for marketing and promoting the team. Most importantly, the Amerks haven’t won in forever. Winning brings in new fans and keeps them.

This being said, you have to be better than 2 goals on home ice. They had 4 power plays in the first period. You have Quinn, Krebs, Peterka, Jankowski. That’s just not good enough.

That’s what he does. I’ve watched it for 3 years. He’s always letting in some soft goal that absolutely kills the team. It feels like every game.

The 3rd goal was banked in off of him from behind the net. He’s still awful.

He’s waiver exempt for 2 more years or after he plays 60 NHL games.

They only called him up to have an extra forward on the road.

If Utica wins, they’ll tie the 1984 Amerks who have the record for the most consecutive wins to start an AHL season. Hope it’s a little extra motivation.

Because they had no choice. They ran out of goalies and needed to sign him. That’s unlikely to happen again.

No, it’s not better. He’s on an AHL contract. They’re not calling him up. Not only because they literally can’t contractually, but also because he’s not an NHL goalie.

I think people really need to take a step back with Dell. He’s played 100 NHL games with respectable numbers. He has elite AHL numbers. Michael Houser has barely played above the ECHL. Please, people, get a grip. They’re not calling Houser up, who is on an AHL contract anyway.

Connor Ingram was on waivers, and I think he would’ve been worth a look.

.887 save percentage in 33 games. The sample size could be bigger, but that’s bad. Those are 1980s numbers. Even a .900 save percentage these days is pretty bad, and he’s well below that.

Aside from the last week, UPL has been one on the worst goalies in the AHL over the last 3 years. Calling him up would be a terrible idea.

I’ve been hard on him, but haven’t really changed my opinion on him. He absolutely had a great week, and earned the award. But I need to see more out of him consistently, and longer term. Happy to be wrong on him.

As I posted the other day, I don’t get this team. Tons of talent, but they actually kind of stink Their record is a bit of an illusion. Appert needs to get it figured out, because they should look much better then they do based on their roster.

On a relative basis, yes. But even the worst NHL teams would smoke AHL teams with ease.

Davidson and Schuldt are both hurt. Edit: Davidson didn’t dress, but Schuldt left the game, so he may be getting extra ice time.

I’ve noticed a bit of a regression with this offense. Not as explosive, not finishing. They are fast, and they’ll produce chances on the rush, but they’re always getting dominated when it comes to puck possession. Strange team, they have a lot of talent, but don’t seem to really play to the level of their talent.

We’ve seen it, sadly. They get blown out. UPL barely gives them a chance to win.

Dell is an all star level AHL goalie. You just can’t keep him on the bench too much. He needs to be the starter. Excited to see what this team can be with him in goal, and Murray and Jankowski back in the lineup. I assume the Eichel trade will push someone down from Buffalo, too, and maybe a prospect on top of that.

Very few AHL teams have color analysts on the road. Pretty unheard of. I can’t remember the Amerks really ever doing it aside from some big playoff games.

Laval skated circles around them that period, Amerks lucky to be up. Dell misplayed a puck behind the net and Laval missed a wide open net, but he was good other than that. Felt like Laval had the puck the entire period.

Laval looks to be perhaps the best team in the division. It’ll be a tough game. I’d obviously like to see Dell play tonight, and Jankowski return to the lineup.

The ECHL is a better league than you’re giving it credit for. There’s zero harm in sending him down. Nothing bad happens. Either he gains confidence, plays well and comes back up to Rochester, or he struggles and the organization realizes they have a problem and address it from there. Right now he’s not even giving the Amerks a chance to win. How does that impact the game script? How does that impact how Quinn and Peterka play? I’d give him a couple more starts, and if there’s little to no improvement, the decision is easy. The only reason they wouldn’t do it is out of stubbornness.