Tucson Roadrunners Street Forward: Week For The Birds
Upcoming Video games (All occasions MST)
Tuesday, December 13: Coachella Valley at Tucson, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 14: Coachella Valley at Tucson, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 17: Tucson at San Diego, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 18: Tucson at Coachella Valley, 7:00 p.m.
Who’s On The Schedule
The Roadrunners four-game dwelling stand continues Tuesday night time on the Tucson Area with the primary of two midweek matchups with the Coachella Valley Firebirds. Tucson has confronted off with the AHL affiliate of the Seattle Kraken twice this season on their dwelling ice after a weekend set November 11 and 12. The ten-7-4-0 Roadrunners have earned a standings level in every of their final three contests, whereas the Firebirds come to city with a 5-0-1-0 report of their final six outings.
However Wait, There’s Extra!
The Roadrunners weekend set with the Ontario Reign was solely the beginning of a fun-filled dwelling stand on the Tucson Area. The week kicks off with $2 Twos-Day Tuesday night time for the sequence opener with Coachella Valley, that includes $2 popcorn, $2 draft beers, and choose tickets at half-price on the Tucson Area Field Workplace. The house stand concludes the next night time with Child’s Free Wednesday, as all youngsters 12 and underneath can obtain a free ticket to the 6:30 p.m. sport with a paying grownup on the Area Field Workplace. For extra info and to buy tickets, go to TucsonRoadrunners.com/Enjoyable.
Dusty Delivers The Toys
Throughout the weekend sequence with the Ontario Reign, the Roadrunners hosted a Toy Drive on the Tucson Area with followers inspired to deliver new, unwrapped toys with them to the video games. Mascot Dusty shall be delivering the donated toys on Monday to Banner Well being’s Diamond Youngsters’s Medical Middle. As well as, the hundreds of stuffed animals collected from Saturday’s Teddy Bear Toss Recreation shall be given to Aviva Youngsters’s Providers of Tucson.
Meals For Tucson Households
The Tucson Roadrunners and Arcos De Oro Southern Arizona McDonald’s places are supporting the Group Meals Financial institution of Southern Arizona in the course of the Holidays, and followers can take part by visiting TucsonRoadrunners.com/Give. The Roadrunners have partnered with the Group Meals Financial institution of Southern Arizona a number of occasions since becoming a member of arriving in Tucson in 2016, together with visits from gamers and Mascot Dusty to ship donations.
Subsequent Stops
Following Tucson’s two-game sequence at dwelling with the Coachella Valley Firebirds, the Roadrunners will head west for a fast three-game highway journey from Saturday, December 17 to Tuesday, December 20. After a cease in San Diego with the Gulls, Tucson can have one other two-game set with Coachella Valley of their new Acrisure Area. The Roadrunners would be the opponent within the first-ever contest on the dwelling of the Firebirds on Sunday, December 18. They’ll then return dwelling for a pair of video games with the San Diego Gulls on Wednesday, December 22 and Thursday, December 23 to guide into the Christmas Vacation.
Bear Sends Them Flying
Tucson’s 2022 Teddy Bear Toss Objective was scored Saturday night time by ahead Travis Barron. The aim got here with 6:01 passed by within the second interval in opposition to the Ontario Reign and despatched hundreds of Teddy Bears flying onto the ice on the Tucson Area. The aim was Barron’s fourth of the season and continued a busy night time for the Roadrunner nicknamed “Bear,” as he dropped the gloves with Ontario’s Austin Wagner for his team-leading fourth battle of the 12 months. A crowd of 5,171 was available on the Tucson Area to witness the particular aim, the biggest attendance quantity at a Roadrunners dwelling sport this season.
Launch The Cracknell
Roadrunners Captain Adam Cracknell is off to a robust begin to December. Cracknell has eight factors (4g 4a) over his final 4 outings and tallied three consecutive multiple-point performances for the primary time in his AHL profession from December 3 to December 9. His six-on-four aim within the last 1:06 in regulation on Saturday prolonged his lively scoring streak to 4 video games and despatched the sequence finale with Ontario to extra time. In his first 12 months as a Roadrunner, Cracknell is tied for third on the group with 16 factors (9g 7a) in 21 video games.
Carcone Retains It Up
Tucson main scorer Mike Carcone enters the week on a six-game level streak, tied for a season-high. The 26-year-old has tallied some extent in 15 of his 20 whole appearances this 12 months and is tied for sixth within the American Hockey League for whole scoring with 27 factors (8g 19a). His 19 assists is already a career-high and his first-period rating in opposition to the Reign on Friday, December 9 was his a centesimal AHL aim. The Roadrunners Alternate Captain made his Nationwide Hockey League debut final season with the Arizona Coyotes on December 28, 2021, earlier than he appeared in 21 whole video games on the NHL stage.
Did You Know?
The Roadrunners have had three-straight video games go previous regulation for the fifth time in group historical past and the primary time since January 2018. Tucson received three-straight extra time matchups by scores of 2-1 from January 19 to 26 of 2018: twice in opposition to the San Antonio Rampage, and as soon as in opposition to the Chicago Wolves. Tucson had a stretch of three consecutive extra time video games twice in 2017-2018 and twice of their inaugural 2016-2017 season.
On The Air
Tucson Roadrunners Blissful Hour airs each Tuesday at 5 p.m. on FOX Sports activities 1450AM and the iHeartRadio app, with a podcast model additionally out there after every episode on the iHeartRadio app. This week, co-hosts Adrian Denny, Brett Fera and Kim Cota-Robles shall be on the Tucson Area for a particular prolonged pregame version earlier than the Roadrunners 6:30 p.m. matchup with Coachella Valley. As well as, a brand new episode of the Tucson Roadrunners Insider Podcast launched Sunday night time after the Roadrunners Teddy Bear Toss with the Ontario Reign. “Voice of the Roadrunners” Adrian Denny and TucsonRoadrunners.com’s Jimmy Peebles recapped the recapped the weekend with unique clips from Teddy Bear Toss goal-scorer Travis Barron. The podcast could be discovered on the iHeartRadio App.
(Photograph Credit: Kate Dibildox/Chris Hook)
