Tucson Roadrunners forward Michael Carcone heads to the AHL All-Star festivities as the leading scorer in the league after essentially being cast off by his previous organization.
Brett Fera Two years to the day after he was first attached in one way or another to the Tucson Roadrunners’ roster, forward Michael Carcone will step onto the ice at Place Bell on Sunday not only as the American Hockey League’s top scorer so far this season but also an AHL All-Star for the first time.
People are also reading… Here could also be Tucson itself. That’s where his career blossomed after being an also-ran of sorts with the Nashville Predators organization. Entering the pandemic-shortened 2021 season, the Milwaukee Admirals, Nashville’s AHL affiliate, elected not to field a team for a year. That led the Predators to strike a deal to send their prospects to the Chicago Wolves, whose team was split that year with up-and-comers from both Nashville and the Carolina Hurricanes.
Carcone and Tynan entered the weekend first and second, respectively, in AHL scoring, with Tynan closing the gap the last couple of weeks. He’s now eight points back of Carcone, thanks to the two-time reigning AHL Most Valuable Player’s streak of 19 points in his last seven games. Carcone didn’t seem overly concerned about traveling from outside Los Angeles to essentially Montreal most likely on Sunday morning. But with a 9 p.m. expected finish Saturday night at Ontario, and the likelihood of a decent flight pushing into the morning, Carcone left open the slight possibility that things like weather or air traffic might impact whether he can actually make it in time.
“He’s such a valuable part of this team,” Potvin said. “Obviously if we’re up in the games and we don’t need more goals and our team is playing the right way … we’ll manage his ice time. But we’ll play Mike as the team needs him.”
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