ratsgirl
10-08-2005, 07:09 PM
Preview:
The River Rats open their 13th season tonight as they travel west on I-90 to face off against the Syracuse Crunch. The River Rats, who will be playing in the Atlantic Division this year, finished last season with a 29-38-6-7 record and set a new AHL record by missing the playoffs for five straight seasons.
Yesterday veteran defenseman Alex Brooks was named the 10th captain in River Rats history. Alternate captains will be David Hale and Tuomas Pihlman.
The River Rats start the season with 26 players, including 9 defensemen, on their roster:
http://ahl.leaguestat.com/stats/roster.php?step=&sub=&season_id=1&team_id=318
Pre-season comments from Robbie Ftorek: (http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=406501&category=RIVERRATS&BCCode=&newsdate=10/8/2005&TextPage=2)
"Because we've got so much depth, you won't see mistakes out there," Ftorek said. "You want to be playing to the best of your ability. You're not going to get as many chances to have the mistakes without being taken out of the lineup because we've got so many guys."
AHL news:
-The AHL has adopted the same new rules as the NHL with the exception of the automatic penalty for delay of game against any player who shoots the puck directly over the glass in his defending zone.
-The AHL is going back to only allowing teams to dress 17 skaters for each game after having allowed teams to dress 18 skaters during the NHL lockout.
-The AHL has also reduced the number of veterans (players with more than 260 games of experience in the NHL, AHL, IHL or any European elite league) per team to five.
-Finally--most AHL games will be available online as streaming video from B2B for $6 per game:
https://www.b2livetv.com/bp/ahl.htm
I haven't tried it yet, but apparently you can to go to the River Rats website
(http://www.albanyriverrats.com/) about 10 minutes before the game starts and click on the "Watch Live" link on the left hand side.
Tonight's game starts at 7:30.
here's the link to the scoreboard:
http://ahl.leaguestat.com/stats/game-summary.php?game_id=1001049
'k...more later.
The River Rats open their 13th season tonight as they travel west on I-90 to face off against the Syracuse Crunch. The River Rats, who will be playing in the Atlantic Division this year, finished last season with a 29-38-6-7 record and set a new AHL record by missing the playoffs for five straight seasons.
Yesterday veteran defenseman Alex Brooks was named the 10th captain in River Rats history. Alternate captains will be David Hale and Tuomas Pihlman.
The River Rats start the season with 26 players, including 9 defensemen, on their roster:
http://ahl.leaguestat.com/stats/roster.php?step=&sub=&season_id=1&team_id=318
Pre-season comments from Robbie Ftorek: (http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=406501&category=RIVERRATS&BCCode=&newsdate=10/8/2005&TextPage=2)
"Because we've got so much depth, you won't see mistakes out there," Ftorek said. "You want to be playing to the best of your ability. You're not going to get as many chances to have the mistakes without being taken out of the lineup because we've got so many guys."
AHL news:
-The AHL has adopted the same new rules as the NHL with the exception of the automatic penalty for delay of game against any player who shoots the puck directly over the glass in his defending zone.
-The AHL is going back to only allowing teams to dress 17 skaters for each game after having allowed teams to dress 18 skaters during the NHL lockout.
-The AHL has also reduced the number of veterans (players with more than 260 games of experience in the NHL, AHL, IHL or any European elite league) per team to five.
-Finally--most AHL games will be available online as streaming video from B2B for $6 per game:
https://www.b2livetv.com/bp/ahl.htm
I haven't tried it yet, but apparently you can to go to the River Rats website
(http://www.albanyriverrats.com/) about 10 minutes before the game starts and click on the "Watch Live" link on the left hand side.
Tonight's game starts at 7:30.
here's the link to the scoreboard:
http://ahl.leaguestat.com/stats/game-summary.php?game_id=1001049
'k...more later.