WD Sports and Entertainment is thrilled to congratulate clients Mike Carcone and Tyson Foerster on their selection to the 2023 AHL All-Star Game in Laval, Quebec.

Carcone leads the American Hockey League in scoring with 18 goals and 27 assists for 45 points in 28 games. He also leads the AHL with 11 power-play goals and 25 power-play points.

The third-year Roadrunner returned to the lineup from the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night and tallied two goals and one assist after logging two goals in six games and a plus-three in the NHL following his recall on December 27. Last week, he was named the AHL’s Player of the Month for December after totaling 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points in 10 games for the Roadrunners.

The 27-year-old has registered multiple-points in 14 of his 28 games played with Tucson this year and has at least three points in seven games this season. He has multiple-points in seven of his last eleven games played for the Roadrunners.

After 306 career AHL games, Carcone made his NHL debut with the Coyotes on December 28, 2021 against San Jose before returning back to Tucson where he broke the team record with 24 goals. Carcone is the first player in team history to lead the Roadrunners in goals in back-to-back seasons after pacing Tucson with 15 goals during an abbreviated 2020-2021 season.

He finished the 2021-2022 season by appearing in 20 games with the Coyotes where he totaled four goals and two assists. Carcone has 57 goals and 44 assists for 91 points in 111 career games with the Roadrunners.

Foerster, 20, is second on the Phantoms in scoring with nine goals and 12 assists for 21 points. The first-round selection of the Philadelphia Flyers was taken #23 overall in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. The Alliston, Ontario native has played in 65 career games with the Phantoms over parts of three seasons scoring 21 goals with 20 assists for 40 points. The righty-shooting right wing won a gold medal for Canada at the 2022 World Juniors last August in Edmonton where he scored three goals with three assists in seven games.

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A barrage of goals helped the Tucson Roadrunners say goodbye to their losing streak.

The Roadrunners scored scored seven unanswered goals Tuesday night to beat visiting Coachella Valley 7-2 and snap a five-game skid.

The Roadrunners (11-7-4-0) rolled at Tucson Arena to pick up their first- ever victory over the expansion Firebirds.

“Honestly it’s good to have a win like that,” said Tucson head coach Steve Potvin. “In the last four games I think the outcome could have been easily the same for us, really I’m happy the boys played a 60-minute game.”

The Roadrunners had been 0-2-3-0 in their last five, including three straight overtime losses.

Roadrunners forward Michael Carcone scored in the second period and twice in the third to get the hat trick. Two of those were power-play goals.

“They don’t come too often so whenever you get a night or an opportunity to cap off a hat trick it’s a nice feeling,” Carcone said.

Tucson set a Roadrunners record with five power-play goals and had a season high in total goals.

“We got a little bit of a slow start, but I think it just shows the mental toughness,” said Tucson forward Nathan Smith. “Our team’s not gonna quit, we came back, we scored seven unanswered and we had a couple power plays and I think it’s huge to take advantage of those.”

The Roadrunners host the Firebirds (12-5-3-0) again on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. to close out the home stand.

The Roadrunners were 5 for 9 on the power play while CV was 0 for 4.

“Setting a franchise record on the power play is always refreshing, I did it for seven years and I’m not jealous one bit,” Potvin said. “It was nice the PK did their job as well, it’s good to see the special teams get rewarded tonight.”

Tucson outshot Coachella Valley 30-17.

The third period featured 16 penalties and eight fighting penalties, plus two for instigating.

“They’re a great team and obviously they’re a little frustrated tonight and kudos to them for sticking up for themselves and we’re gonna try and do the same thing,” Carcone said. “So we’re not gonna back down from anybody.”

Coachella Valley opened the scoring 1:17 into the game when right wing Eddie Wittchow lit the lamp. Then at 6:48 in the first center Ville Petman made it 2-0.

Smith got Tucson on the board with a power play 14:35 into the first. Center Jean-Sebastien Dea and forward Laurent Dauphin got the assists.

Then a little under two minutes later, forward Hudson Elynuik tied it up for the Roadrunners.

Halfway through the second period, forward Ben McCartney scored a power play goal for Tucson, sandwiched between Carcone’s first goal and his other two scores.

Forward Laurent Dauphin scored Tucson’s seventh goal as 10 Roadrunners had points, led by Carcone’s four.

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The Tucson Roadrunners, AHL affiliate of the Arizona Coyotes announced their leadership group for the 2022-2023 season.

Among the players named to the Roadrunners’ leadership group was WD Sports and Entertaiment client Michael Carcone as one of the team’s assistant captains. Carcone is entering his third season in Tucson.

This past season Carcone made his NHL debut with the Coyotes appearing in 21 games, four goals and two assists. Last season with the Roadrunners the Ajax, Ontario native posted  41 points (24 goals, 17 assists) in 48 games played.

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The San Jose Barracuda (1-1-0-0) were outshot 27-to-8 in the final 40 minutes on Saturday, but got 29 stops from Eetu Makiniemi and an overtime winner from Artemi Kniazev to down the Bakersfield Condors (1-0-1-0), 3-2, at Tech CU Arena.

 In the first, the Barracuda drove the pace of play and with just three seconds left in the period, Luke Johnson (1) netted a power-play goal to open up the scoring.

 In the second Ryan Fanti was replaced by Olivier Rodrigue but the Barracuda mustared just a single shot in the period, yet the game remained at a 1-0 Barracuda lead after 40 minutes.

 In the third, Samuel Dove-McFalls (1) finally beat Makiniemi at 7:23 to level the score at 1-1. But on the Barracuda’s eighth power-play of the game, Scott Reedy (1) would give his team back its lead at 2-1. At 12:53, the Condors once again managed to tie the score, as Matt Boudens (2) found the back of the net for the second consecutive game.

 In overtime, Johnson found Kniazev rink-wide and the second year defender would beat Rodrigue on the short side at 2:11.

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