With playoff hopes all but gone, Roadrunners find motivation heading into season's final stretch

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With playoff hopes all but gone, Roadrunners find motivation heading into season's final stretch
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Tucson will need to be nearly perfect in its remaining seven games to squeak into the playoffs.

Brett Fera While they're not officially out of the American Hockey League playoff chase heading into their second-to-last home series of the season Friday against the Colorado Eagles, the Tucson Roadrunners know how precarious their fate is at this point.

People are also reading… "But that’s not what we’re looking to do. We’re looking to come in and battle every night. Some guys have contract next year, some guys don’t. So everybody’s hungry. Nothing changes for us.""You try to win every game, yeah," he said."But I look at is as a learning . We have lots of young guys and we’re kind of building for the future for them and the whole organization.

Another is defenseman Cole Hults, acquired in the offseason from Ontario. Hults is in the second year of a two-year NHL deal, so he’s ostensibly playing for next year’s contract, too. The 23-year-old Hults is playing more over the past two months, and during one six-game stretch in March carded eight of his 15 points this season.

"At this point in the year, we don’t need to talk about our forecheck. We don’t need to talk about our coverage. The structure is the structure," he said."But everybody’s got a little something different to play for. Understanding those, acknowledging those and trying to achieve those, it’s OK." Imama was suspended one game due to an AHL rule that penalizes players who fight more than 10 times per season. The additional five games, an AHL spokesperson told the Star, came because"Imama attempted to enter the Rockford dressing room after the incident on the ice" in Saturday's 4-2 loss to the IceHogs.

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