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Amerks Host Oklahoma City Barons on "Donate Life" Night

April 11, 2013 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Rochester Americans News Release


(Rochester, NY)... The Rochester Americans will host the Oklahoma City Barons at 7:05 p.m. on Friday at The Blue Cross Arena. The Amerks are partnering with the Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network (FLDRN) and the Amerks Alumni Association, including Hall of Famer Gates Orlando, the region's first person to receive a total artificial heart and then a heart transplant, to raise awareness for organ donation.

Friday's game also features an Amerks Happy Hour from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Upper Atrium Bar, where fans age 21 and over can enjoy $2 Molson and Coors Light drafts. There will be live music performed by Jim Lane throughout the Happy Hour.

In addition, Rochester Institute of Technology film student Ryan Meadows and a student crew will be on hand in the main concourse as part of a community art project, where they will be asking fans to paint a line on a canvas for a project called "Lines." Once the project is eventually completed, the film will be shown at the RIT School of Film and Animation's end-of-quarter screenings in May. There are also plans to enter the film into several film festivals. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/LinesExperiment.

April is Donate Life Month, and Friday's Amerks game will provide an opportunity for FLDRN staff and former Amerks players to encourage people to enroll in the New York State Donate Life Registry at www.donorrecovery.org to become an organ donor and help save lives. Several members of the Amerks Alumni Association, including Paul Brydges, Randy Cunneyworth, Jody Gage, Scott Metcalfe, Jim Pettie, Kenton Rein and Geordie Robertson will be on-hand throughout the evening to speak with fans about the importance of organ donation and encourage fans to become organ donors. Orlando, who helped lead the Amerks to a Calder Cup in 1987, was the first person to receive a total artificial heart, a high-tech pump, which kept him alive until he received a heart transplant on Feb. 5, 2013 at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network coordinates organ donation in 20 counties with a population of 2.4 million and serves two transplant centers and 38 hospitals in the Finger Lakes Region, Central and Northern New York. Locally, more than 750 patients are currently waiting for a kidney, heart, liver or pancreas transplant. Hundreds of others will be helped this year by tissue transplants such as cornea, bone, tendon, ligaments and heart valves.

The Amerks and Barons enter Friday's game tied in the AHL's Western Conference standings with 82 points apiece and will be meeting for the second and final time this season. Rochester enters the game having won seven of its last 10 games.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.amerks.com or call 1-855-GO-AMERKS.

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