Rochester Americans: 2016-17 Season - Part 1

[Zip15]

Not sure who this is:

 

[WiHockeyGuy]

Not sure who this is:

Played for the Admirals last season. Very solid, steady AHL vet. He should help Roch tremendously.

 

[dotcommunism]

Not sure who this is:

Joe Mullen's son. Was playing for Dinamo Riga this season. Guess we'll have to see if this ends up playing out like the Kennedy situation did (hopefully for the Amerks it won't)

 

[Sabre Dance]

Anyone think Murray should assign someone to be GM of the Amerks? Maybe he cant handle both jobs.

 

[Jim Bob]

Joe Mullen's son. Was playing for Dinamo Riga this season. Guess we'll have to see if this ends up playing out like the Kennedy situation did (hopefully for the Amerks it won't)

Doesn't seem like it.

 

[sabrefan27]

Anyone think Murray should assign someone to be GM of the Amerks? Maybe he cant handle both jobs.

100%. He can't handle both jobs. He can I guess, but the product suffers. Jody Gage is still employed by the Amerks in a fluff role and still would be a good hire if he was given some actual power.

 

[LaxSabre]

 

[Chainshot]

100%. He can't handle both jobs. He can I guess, but the product suffers. Jody Gage is still employed by the Amerks in a fluff role and still would be a good hire if he was given some actual power.

I'd love to have Gage back. His ability to turn up gems from other leagues always stood out to me.

 

[sabrefan27]

I'd love to have Gage back. His ability to turn up gems from other leagues always stood out to me.

Considering TM was an AHL GM himself at one point, you'd think he'd see the value.

 

[LaxSabre]

 

[CrazyPsycho]

Anyone catch the game? Mullen 2 more assist, 3 in 2 games, Baptiste 1+1

 

[LaxSabre]

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[sabrefan27]

About 4 months too late, but better than never at all.

 

[ZZamboni]

Rather than being happy he's on the team ...

It's just not good enough

 

[sabrefan27]

Rather than being happy he's on the team ...

It's just not good enough

That's not even remotely true. Thanks for the contribution.

 

[LaxSabre]

 

[Dirty Dog]

Rather than being happy he's on the team ...

It's just not good enough

Well it's wasn't. I don't get the sabrefan27 hate when Rochester is a god awful team

 

[sabrefan27]

Well it's wasn't. I don't get the sabrefan27 hate when Rochester is a god awful team

What's even more ridiculous is the complaining about the Sabres on this very board is so much worse than mine. God forbid I criticize the Sabres because they haven't won a playoff series in Rochester since 2005. 2005!

But then you get told to "know your place" and they're just a minor league team. I am entitled to the same thoughts as you are.

So yeah, sorry for still being annoyed that the Amerks top signing of the offseason didn't actually get assigned to Rochester until February when they're already quite a ways out of the playoff picture. Again.

 

[DJN21]

What's even more ridiculous is the complaining about the Sabres on this very board is so much worse than mine. God forbid I criticize the Sabres because they haven't won a playoff series in Rochester since 2005. 2005!

But then you get told to "know your place" and they're just a minor league team. I am entitled to the same thoughts as you are.

So yeah, sorry for still being annoyed that the Amerks top signing of the offseason didn't actually get assigned to Rochester until February when they're already quite a ways out of the playoff picture. Again.

It's ridiculous because you repeatedly fail to come to grasp with the number of call ups due to injuries that were out of anyone's control. You keep beating this drum that Murray did nothing to help rochester which is just flat out not true. He attempted to add grant, fedun, falk (or Nelson depending who won the 7th dman spot...or both if you believed that heavily in guhle), burgdoerfor, nylander, and was poised to graduate past high picks like karabacek and cornel. Not to mention he was giving rochester at least two of baptiste, bailey, and Fasching to rochester if not all three. Kasdorf was supposed to bring a potential 1a 1b goalie situation but has subsequently sucked. To add to the potential defensive depth he brought in Bennet and strachan...Murray made a huge late season trade to bring top ahl scorer Cole Schneider to the amerks and attempted to shake up the core looking for new results...

The moves and attempts were there and we're derailed by injuries in buffalo as well as by a few guys really underperforming.

You simply won't accept that this team is drastically different from the team put on the ice the year or two beforehand.

 

[DJN21]

That doesn't mean they haven't still sucked but it wasn't due to lack of effort to change the makeup of the team.

 

[ZZamboni]

It's ridiculous because you repeatedly fail to come to grasp with the number of call ups due to injuries that were out of anyone's control. You keep beating this drum that Murray did nothing to help rochester which is just flat out not true. He attempted to add grant, fedun, falk (or Nelson depending who won the 7th dman spot...or both if you believed that heavily in guhle), burgdoerfor, nylander, and was poised to graduate past high picks like karabacek and cornel. Not to mention he was giving rochester at least two of baptiste, bailey, and Fasching to rochester if not all three. Kasdorf was supposed to bring a potential 1a 1b goalie situation but has subsequently sucked. To add to the potential defensive depth he brought in Bennet and strachan...Murray made a huge late season trade to bring top ahl scorer Cole Schneider to the amerks and attempted to shake up the core looking for new results...

The moves and attempts were there and we're derailed by injuries in buffalo as well as by a few guys really underperforming.

You simply won't accept that this team is drastically different from the team put on the ice the year or two beforehand.

That doesn't mean they haven't still sucked but it wasn't due to lack of effort to change the makeup of the team.

Stop bursting the "everything Amerks and Murray sucks" agenda.

Granted, more could have, should have been done. But Murray did quite a bit as you laid out.

 

[dotcommunism]

Murray has done nothing extraordinary to help the Amerks and has, on some occasions, done less than ordinary. The idea that Amerks fans should feel grateful for that is beyond patronizing.

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

Agreed. The Sabres have neglected Rochester ever since they bought them. I really thought the whole purpose of buying the Amerks was to really grow the Buffalo Sabres organization into the model franchise, a team that won and spared no expense while becoming the innovators and team that everyone wanted to emulate. I really thought they would have went for the best coaches and personnel for Rochester to foster a winning environment for the young players that would cycle through there on the way to the big club.

 

[TehDoak]

Murray has done nothing extraordinary to help the Amerks and has, on some occasions, done less than ordinary. The idea that Amerks fans should feel grateful for that is beyond patronizing.

I'm not a fan the way the Amerks have been handled since Murray took over. That being said....the constant injury based callups have not have helped.