Roadrunners President Bob Hoffman joined Adrian Denny, Kim Cota-Robles and Brett Fera on this week’s edition of Roadrunners Happy Hour. Catch Happy Hour every Tuesday at 5 p.m. on Fox Sports 1450 AM and the Roadrunners Happy Hour Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Let’s lead off with the hockey. It was a good weekend for the roadrunners, it’s a team that has four components to it. Our prospects who we’ve grown into third- and fourth-year players, our new prospects, recently drafted, and some guys that cause problems around the American Hockey League for us that our now on our side. I’ll tell you Adrian, going into this weekend it was interesting because on paper you saw the depth, you saw the American Hockey League talent of guys that have 2 or 3 years under their belt playing in the AHL. The goaltending nemesis that we saw in Ontario for many years along with the Justin Kirkland’s of the world and Leonard. There are a lot of really good players that have done things in the AHL and then they come over to us and make great pieces for this Roadrunners lineup to accent those first and second year younger players and the prospects we’ve been developing. I was overly impressed with how they played. More so the little things that you don’t typically see in the start of the season. Bob, always exciting, the player red carpet walk and tailgate starting 4:00 PM just creates the buzz that we’ll bring inside and look to win another home opener. We love getting things started and that home opener will always have a special place. Come and enjoy the tailgate. It will be beautiful weather. Hang out before the game, see the players walk the red carpet, and then come see a great show against, who was ultimately, the best in the west last year. A team in Coachella Valley that did things last year, in an expansion year, that teams hadn’t done. I’m excited to get that underway and go out there and make a statement against Coachella Valley and see what this team can do at home. It’s a great opportunity to get off to a great start.

Earlier this week, TucsonRoadrunners.com’s Jonathon Schaffer caught up with some members of the 2022-2023 Roadrunners at the Arizona Coyotes Training Camp in Scottsdale about the upcoming NHL preseason game at the Tucson Arena. Below are some of our favorite answers.

This week on the Tucson Roadrunners Insider Podcast, “Voice of the Roadrunners” Adrian Denny and Kim Cota-Robles were joined by the newest Roadrunner Hunter Drew as he prepares for his first season with the Roadrunners after four seasons with our I-8 Border Rivals in San Diego.