SUNRISE, Fla. – It was during the wee hours Tuesday that a phone call awakened winger Christian Fischer to tell him he needed to get to Florida.
On the road in San Antonio with the Tucson Roadrunners, Fischer caught a late-morning flight to Tampa and arrived mid-afternoon – changing at the hotel before loading up on oatmeal, banana and bread since he had yet to eat.
“I took just about everything in the snack room,” he said.
But the unusual game-day routine didn’t seem to slow Fischer when he got on the ice with the Coyotes.