**This Week’s Storylines**
**The Rochester Americans are still searching for their first win of the young season after dropping both ends of a two-game set to the Charlotte Checkers over the weekend.
**During Opening Weekend, 10 different players made their Amerks debut, including five that made their American Hockey League debut.
**Amerks rookie defenseman Lawrence Pilut leads the team with a pair of points through the first two games of the campaign. Pilut earned his first AHL point on C.J. Smith’s second-period goal in Friday’s loss before scoring his first goal as an Amerk later in the middle frame while Rochester was on the power-play. Entering the week, the 22-year old Sweden native is tied for the league-lead among all first-year blueliners with two points.
**The Amerks usher in Week Two of the season as they host the Syracuse Crunch on Wednesday night at The Blue Cross Arena at 7:05 p.m. The contest will be the first meeting between the two rivals since the Crunch eliminated Rochester in the third game of the North Division Semifinals this past spring. Following the game, the Amerks travel to Webster Bank Arena for a weekend road set with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
