Tucson Roadrunners forward Michael Carcone was named an AHL first-team All-Star Thursday. He leads the league in points (84) going into the final regular-season weekend.
Michael Carcone's coaches and teammates have been asked so many times this season to describe how good he's been for the playoff-bound Tucson Roadrunners, they're having a harder time of late coming up with ways to describe the play of the presumptive front-runner for the American Hockey League's MVP award.
Joining Carcone on the first team are Pacific Division honorees in forward Matthew Phillips and goaltender Dustin Wolf of the Calgary Wranglers, as well as defenseman Christian Wolanin of the Abbostford Canucks. Pacific Division representatives on the second team include two-time reigning AHL MVP T.J. Tynan, a forward for the Ontario Reign, and defenseman Brogan Rafferty and forward Max McCormick of the Coachella Valley Firebirds.
His 84 total points in 63 games played sit two up on Alex Barré-Boulet of the Syracuse Crunch as of Thursday. Barré-Boulet and his teammate, Syracuse defenseman Darren Raddysh, were also named a first-team All-Stars Thursday. Carcone and Barré-Boulet were teammates in 2015-16 in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Drummondville Voltigeurs. That season, while Carcone scored 47 goals, both notched 89 points — a top 10 number in the QMJHL .
The AHL's Les Cunningham MVP Award honoree should be announced sometime in the next week or so. Carcone, Barré-Boulet, and Wolf are the likely top three up for the Cunningham award. Just last Saturday, with Tucson eventually needing to get a single standings point to clinch its playoff spot the Roadrunners trailing 3-0 late in the first. Carcone mixed it up with Texas Stars' defenseman Michael Karow, who had been glued to Carcone's hip for a good portion of the first period. Carcone bit back and while he received a triple-minor — two minutes for slashing, two for roughing and two for tripping, that push back may have just sparked the Roadrunners.
And Wolf, honored as the AHL's top goaltender a year ago when the Wranglers were playing in northern California as the Stockton Heat before moving to Calgary in the offseason, has been even better in 2022-23 by posting a 2.08 goals against average while leading the AHL in save percentage , wins , games played in goal and minutes played .
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