Rochester Americans and Jacksonville Icemen 2024 Off-season Thread.

[NotABadPeriod]

So, with Appert moving up, what are the chances they can poach someone good for this job? Say...any chance Michael Peca would trade being an assistant on an NHL bench for getting HC experience in Rochester?

Paetsch or Prospal getting promoted feels par for the course though with this org.

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[Dingo44]

So, with Appert moving up, what are the chances they can poach someone good for this job? Say...any chance Michael Peca would trade being an assistant on an NHL bench for getting HC experience in Rochester?

Paetsch or Prospal getting promoted feels par for the course though with this org.

What's wrong with Vinnie as HC? I think he'd do a good job.

 

[Chainshot]

What's wrong with Vinnie as HC? I think he'd do a good job.

One year of NA assistant experience seems like a thin resume.

 

[Dingo44]

One year of NA assistant experience seems like a thin resume.

Sure.

 

[Gabrielor]

todo:

re-sign Murray, multiple years, 1-way. He's the future captain.
re-sign Cecconi. local guy, shouldn't be too hard.

Consider re-signing Davies. Let all the other FAs walk.


If my tracking is right:
Mersch and Metsa have 1 more year, AHL only deals. So we're good with a solid young D / leader, and our captain.


UFA:
Need a vet center, plain and simple. My target, as he's been multiple times, is Andrew Poturalski. Local guy with a storied AHL career.

Need some fresh blood on defense. Ideas still pending. Komarov will be coming.

Could use size at forward. Maybe a reunion with Justin Bailey?

We'll see which of the big 5 (Savoie, Ostlund, Kulich, Rosen, Wahlberg) are here. For the moment, I'm planning on all of them being in Roch.

Does Ryan Johnson graduate? He's the closest to Buffalo of the prospects, and frankly, he should be.

Does Devon Levi graduate? You need 1 goalie minimum; two if Levi goes up.

and of course a Head Coach. I like the Jay McKee idea. I love the Michael Peca idea.

 

[Jacob582]

I'm going to predict that they bring back Malcolm Subban.

 

[Beerz]

I'm going to predict that they bring back Malcolm Subban.

As head coach?

 

[Jacob582]

As head coach?

He's a goalie!

 

[NotABadPeriod]

He's a goalie!

Wrong, he's an anthem singer.

 

[Beerz]

He's a goalie!

It's not outside the realm of possibilities with this group

 

[Jim Bob]

James Patrick at eliteprospects.com

Eliteprospects.com staff profile of James Patrick, 1963-06-14 Winnipeg, MB, CAN Canada.

www.eliteprospects.com

I wonder if they could get him to move back east...

 

[Chainshot]

 

[Chainshot]

Caught parts of Karmanos comments.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[joshjull]

 

[Chainshot]

Yes I wonder at his abilities yet I would follow Apps if he was leading my team. Weird juxtaposition but it is how I feel.

 

[Chainshot]

Karmanos presser:

 

[Beerz]

So who is it going to be? Pantech? Or Prospol? .... gonna be one of them. It's what we do.

Path of least resistance

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[MarkusKetterer]

So random question: when the Sabres farm team was the Portland Pirates, were people still fans of the Amerks? Or did you temporarily switch loyalties? Or did the Amerks become your 1B?

 

[misterchainsaw]

So random question: when the Sabres farm team was the Portland Pirates, were people still fans of the Amerks? Or did you temporarily switch loyalties? Or did the Amerks become your 1B?

I'd imagine the answer to this is different depending on whether one lives in Rochester or Buffalo. The final years of the affiliation the first go-round weren't exactly roses either...

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I'd imagine the answer to this is different depending on whether one lives in Rochester or Buffalo. The final years of the affiliation the first go-round weren't exactly roses either...

See I can imagine that you’d want them (the Amerks) to do well regardless, but only if it didn’t come at the expense of the Pirates.

 

[misterchainsaw]

See I can imagine that you’d want them (the Amerks) to do well regardless, but only if it didn’t come at the expense of the Pirates.

I suspect it was the other way around for a lot of people in Rochester (and obviously non-Sabres fans living here wouldn't really care about the affiliation change anyway).

I tend to doubt, for example, season ticket holders would root for Portland on the rare occasion they came to town over Rochester. More casual Amerks fans who were Sabres fans may have followed Portland and rooted for them over the Amerks, I don't know.

Thankfully it didn't come up much since the teams were in separate conferences at the time.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

So random question: when the Sabres farm team was the Portland Pirates, were people still fans of the Amerks? Or did you temporarily switch loyalties? Or did the Amerks become your 1B?

I never rooted for Portland. I rooted for the Sabres prospects. Technicality, sure, but whether the Pirates won or lost was less of a consideration than whether Nathan Gerbe was developing, for instance.

 

[misterchainsaw]

I never rooted for Portland. I rooted for the Sabres prospects. Technicality, sure, but whether the Pirates won or lost was less of a consideration than whether Nathan Gerbe was developing, for instance.

Yeah that's the other thing. It doesn't come up as much here because we're a self-selecting sample posting in an Amerks thread on a Sabres board, but there has certainly been tensions in the past between winning and development. Rochester made 6 finals in 11 years from 1989-2000 - they were used to having winners and there was always a hunger locally (that you would see more by going to actual Amerks forums) to get more veteran players to win over getting prospects quality ice time.