USA announces 2024-25 regular season schedule

Rochester begins its 69th American Hockey League season on Friday, October 11 at The Blue Cross Arena.
11 July 2024

The Rochester Americans today announced their schedule for the 2024-25 American Hockey League regular season, presented exclusively by Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino. Americans will open their 69^th AHL season – and 43^third The Buffalo Sabers’ primary affiliate – Friday, October 11 at 7:05 pm against the Belleville Senators at The Blue Cross Arena.

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All 32 AHL teams will again play a 72-game regular-season schedule (36 home games and 36 away games) this upcoming season, with the Americans playing against 14 other teams. Rochester, which is beginning its first season under newly appointed head coach Michael Lyon, will play 24 of its 36 home games on weekends, consisting of 18 Friday home games, three Saturday home dates and three Sunday home games. The team will balance its schedule with a dozen midweek games on Wednesday nights, including the annual pre-Thanksgiving Day matchup against the defending North Division champion Cleveland Monsters on Wednesday, November 27.

For the ninth consecutive year, the Americans will play all 72 of their games this season only against Eastern Conference opponents, with 54 against their North Division rivals and 18 against teams from the Atlantic Division. The Belleville Senators will remain in the North Division of the American Eastern Conference along with the Cleveland Monsters, Laval Rocket, Syracuse Crunch, Toronto Marlies and Utica Comets.

Like previous years, Rochester would face Syracuse and Utica more than any other opponent during its 69^th The AHL campaign began with 12 meetings (six home, six road) against their interstate rivals. The Americans also have eight matchups (four home, four road) against Belleville, Cleveland and Laval. Completing their divisional schedule includes six contests (three home, three road) with the Toronto Marlies, including a home-and-home during the second week of the season before a meeting north of the border in the regular season finale on Saturday. Set included. 19 April.

The Americans will again play in the entire Atlantic Division this upcoming season with four matchups (two home, two road) against the Charlotte Checkers. The two teams will meet in back-to-back weeks in March to bookend a three-game homestand that begins on Wednesday, March 12 at The Blue Cross Arena and then meet again on Friday, March 21.

Like last season, the Americans will also face the Providence Bruins and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins twice (one home, one road), while also seeing the Bridgeport Islanders, Hartford Wolf Pack, Hershey Bears, Lehigh Valley Phantoms and Springfield Thunderbirds. Will meet. Also a pair of meetings (a house, a street). The back-to-back defending Calder Cup champion Bears, fresh off their 13^th Make its only trip to Rochester on Friday, November 22 for the AHL Championship, 467^th All-time meeting between the league’s two oldest franchises.

All home games this season will start at 7:05 p.m., except for three Saturday matchups, which are scheduled for 5:05 p.m. Rochester’s three Sunday afternoon matches, two of which are scheduled for late March, are scheduled for noon. Will start at 3:05 pm.

The busiest month of the season for the Americans comes in November with 14 games split evenly between home and road. After opening the month with a weekend set at Utica, Rochester will play seven of its next 12 games at home, the majority of which will be against North Division opponents.

The Americans’ longest homestand of the season is a five-game span over a 10-day period in February, featuring all but one matchup against divisional foes, the only exception being Rochester’s visit to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Wednesday, February 26. Is. The homestand also coincides with the team’s busiest stretch of the season, with nine games over the final 17 days of the month highlighted by three each within the Empire State.

The Americans’ longest series of road games is a five-game trip over eight days in December. Rochester heads south for a pair of contests in Charlotte, including a two-game set in Belleville, before ending the trip north of the border.

Rochester spends most time on home ice in November and February, with seven games each in the friendly confines of Blue Cross Arena. In contrast, the Americans will have three consecutive months with seven road games between November and January, with the team making its annual tour through New England after the start of the new year.

For the third consecutive year, the Americans began the season by playing half of their first six games on the road in October. All six games in October are against North Division opponents, with the Final Four being home-and-home series with Toronto and Cleveland after Rochester reached the Eastern Conference finals last spring.

Rochester has four “three-in-three” weekends, three more than last season. The Americans will be in action on three consecutive nights during the second weekend of January and February followed by back-to-back three-game weekends to end the month of March.

Information about promotional and annual theme nights will be announced at a later date.

The Americans season ticket subscriptions for the 2024-25 season are on sale now. Season ticket memberships start as low as $17 per game and come with a number of member-only perks and benefits. All full and half season membership options are available. For more information about Amerks season tickets or to sign up today, visit www.amerks.com/memberships.