On Friday, Stockton welcomed the red hot Tucson Roadrunners, who were coming off back-to-back shutouts against the San Jose Barracuda. The Heat were without the services of Andrew Mangiapane with an upper-body injury (UBI), Jon Gillies with a lower-body injury (LBI), and Tyler Parsons (UBI). From my source, Mangiapane and Gillies are day-to-day, while Parsons is week-to-week.
But first, the Heat returned to Stockton Arena after a three-game road trip that saw a loss to Ontario and back-to-back wins against Colorado. A brief recap of that trip:
- Gillies was pulled in Ontario after giving up four goals (two shorthanded) in two periods.