When the Arizona Coyotes took the ice last October, they did it with a variety of young faces, a few new names, and a new GM upstairs. But they also started the season with an AHL affiliate located only 100-some miles away instead of 3,000. And down with the newly minted Tucson Roadrunners was Anthony DeAngelo.
DeAngelo, leading up to this season, had already had a tumultuous career. While he was something of a scoring machine in Sarnia and then later Sault Ste. Marie, he encountered suspension trouble, most notably an 8-game ban for violating the OHL’s Abuse and Diversity Policies regarding a comment to a teammate, as well as an ejection from another game for abusing an official.