Overview
- Ontario hosts the Tucson Roadrunners at Toyota Arena tonight at 7 p.m. PT, the first of a two-game set, with free streaming on FloSports and a team radio feed.
- Andrew Lord makes his debut behind the bench after Marco Sturm left for an NHL head-coaching job in Boston.
- With Pheonix Copley claimed on waivers by Tampa Bay, Erik Portillo enters as the No. 1 goaltender and is expected to start his first AHL regular-season game since Feb. 17 following an injury layoff.
- Ontario’s roster blends returners with newcomers Cole Guttman, Logan Brown and defenseman Samuel Bolduc, and Russian blueliner Kirill Kirsanov is slated for his North American debut alongside Jakub Dvorak.
- Defenseman Angus Booth begins the season out with a lower-body injury, and the team also listed Berge, Brown and Parker-Jones as injured.