DAVIES FINDING ROLE IN ROCHESTER
Defenseman has seven points in last six games
Mar 5, 2023Through 47 games, Jeremy Davies has already tallied a career-high nine goals in his first season with the Rochester Americans. The defenseman, who signed a two-way contract with the Buffalo Sabres on July 13, 2022, has been a big part of the defensive core and success recently.
“I think Jeremy Davies is playing his best hockey of the season here in the last few weeks,” head coach Seth Appert said last week during the road trip. Davies tallied seven points (3+4) in his last seven games.
“I feel like as the season has gone along, you find your way and find your role on the team,” Davies said Friday. “We’ve been having some success lately, so I think everyone is falling into place and working together.”
The scoring depth was on display during the three-straight wins to open the road trip: 12 different players scored during the 20-goal outburst. In the three games this past week, there were seven goal-scorers for 10 goals.
Jeremy Davies tallied two of those goals.
“I’ve been feeding off the success of my teammates,” he said.
“We’re super bought-in to winning. We’re starting to really hunker down on our systems and our play."
And a big part of that system is Davies being paired with fellow Rochester-newcomer Joseph Cecconi. Since Cecconi was acquired on December 15, the two have been a consistent presence together on the blue line.
“He’s definitely a good partner for me to have. We mesh well together,” Davies explained. “He’s a little bigger than I am. He plays a more defensive style game. He locks it down on the back-end, and that frees me up a bit.”
Coach Appert also credits the lock-down style of defensive play for why Jeremy Davies is finding offensive success. “It sounds counter-intuitive,” Appert noted, “but the better defense you play, the more you get to play offense.”
With an attacking mentality, Davies is being rewarded both, on the score sheet and with opportunities on the ice. He’s often the defenseman starting overtime for the Amerks. “When I get the chance to go out there, I try to find those open pockets of space with speed and create offense,” Davies said.
Davies scored the overtime winner in Cleveland on December 1, giving him a two-goal game. He then ended the contest with Belleville just 56 seconds into overtime on February 4.
While Rochester fell to 3-2-1-0 on the six-game road trip, and sit at 4th in the North Division. They’ll look to bounce-back with another three-in-three weekend.
The team returns home to host the Hartford Wolf Pack on Friday, Mar. 10 for Irish Night, presented by Rohrbach Brewing Company, before heading to Syracuse for another North Division tilt on Saturday.
The club will cap off the weekend with a Sunday matinee against the Toronto Marlies and a Halfway to Halloween celebration, presented by Pepsi. Tickets are just $10 for kids.