January 8, 2025 • 48 mins
Voice of the Roadrunners Jonathon Schaffer and Co-Host Kim-Cota Robles caught up with Roadrunners Stregnth and Performance Coach Parker Poore as they talk about is day-to-day and gameday preperations to keep the team in shape during the season. They also recap Tucson's series versus the Texas Stars and and the big game in Coachella Valley to continue on the road trip
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 4 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am, our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happier. My name is Jonathan Schaeffer, with co host
Kim Coda roblaz and joining us right at the top
of the hour, the Roadrunners Strength and Performance Coach Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Poor Parker. How's it going man, It's going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Guys, this is the first time one for me, So
I am both high anxiety and high excitement.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You never were. You not unhappier last year at all.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Now I traded so hard. I traded so hard to
get parked on the show last year. You douay no
idea how excited I am?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
That's funny. Well, yeah, because Kim was just like, let's
get Parker on this show. I'm like, okay, cool, Yeah,
we haven't grabbed it yet, but I thought you were
on the show last year. Well, welcome to Roadrunners. Happy,
We're glad you're here with us for the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, I appreciate it. Like Kim said, I can be
a bit of a recluse.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
So when you get me, you get me and so happy.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
To be here.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, in case there's fans out there who don't know
who you are, just tell us what your day to
day role is for the road Runners and how long
you've been with the team, and just yeah, let people
know who Parker Poor is.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Okay, So yeah, my title would be, you know, the
strength conditioning coach, performance coach. I think there's people who
would call it multiple different titles. But I work with
our athletes on the off ice side from the day
to day training that they do, because even in season,
we have the benefit of mirroring more of a college
sports schedule than honestly an NHL schedule, and so that
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does allow us time to train off ice and try
to accomplish some goals there. On top of that to
work with anybody in a rehab setting, I will usually
work back and forth with our physical therapist, Nikki Patel
on when I need to do something versus when she
needs to do something when we do have injuries. And
then I would also say that I get to monitor
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our players from our sports signs that we use in house.
And then I would finish off with saying on game days,
I run a jama juice.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Oh wait, talk about the Jama juice more?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Wait, what our players get a shake post game? And
so I didn't know that the other of the flavors,
and so in between periods that's what I do. So
game days are actually usually my most boring. Uh, And
so I just joke that I run a Jama juice
during the game.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh wait, is that back in the locker room? Do
you guys have a little kitchen area back there?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, so you get vanilla and berry or chocolate peanut
butter banana.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I only have two. I don't do anything and two.
That's all you can order is those two.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Makes it makes it easier for you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And you're in charge of like the king for the
team too, right, like when we go on the road
or when we're eating at home? Are you the one
choosing what the guys eat on a day to day
basis when they're here.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So when we're here, thankfully, the TCC actually does a
really really good job of working with us. We've tried
to kind of give them a lot of freedom of
just hey, here, here's your bumpers. If you can stay
in that, that makes our life a lot easier because
there are parts of our day to day where as
much as a meal mate seem repetitive, but at least
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having the consistency of knowing what you're getting on a
certain day does mean a lot to our guys. But
then also at the same time too, to have a
variety of things that you know that helps mix up
the day to day. And so at home, Jake Wagman
and I both kind of can manage that, but I
will usually, you know, a meal's over the top, incredible, Hey,
I'll give them feedback and let them know, can we
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have more stuff like this? Or if something you know
might not have been loved it's pretty rare, but again, hey,
can we avoid these things? And then when we're on
the road, Jake will send me our menu options given
the place that we're staying at and we can kind
of decide or pick from there, just like hey, I'd
stay away from this or I'd like to do that.
But it's it's pretty easy when they're kind of they're
all in template, so we don't have to do a
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whole lot of work or a whole lot of instructing
with the places we go.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Do you do you manage like the coloric and taking
other guys around pretty like specific day it's a lot
of them like meal prep and everything, but they're eating
breakfast and lunch at the TCC righty, and then when
they're at home, you know, like, how are you do
you help them manage? Especially the guys don't cook or
who aren't going good and a lot of them, it
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seems like there is a lot of them. Yeah, how
do you help them manage that?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I don't think there's as much management on that side
as I think some people would expect. I think we
try and have education towards not towards four guys to
just understand what their options should look like depending on
what they need, because absolutely they are guys that have
different needs.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We've had players.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Come in and both them management myself, you know, the
whole or you know, we know that we need to
put more muscle on a player, then we need to
give them guidance of when and how to do something.
Same thing though, we've had situations where a guy wants
to lose weight, and rightfully so depending on where his
goals are at or what you know, we need him
to be.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
At, and so how do we manage that.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I think it's very hard to count macros and count
calories in season as some of these guys are given
the variables that they have, So I and use a
lot of the simple stuff where it like, you know,
like your grains, you know how you've heard like it
should be the palm of your hand, or protein should
be able to fit in a certain size. And I
think kind of get guys to understand, like, you don't
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have to count something, but if normal is this, do
half more of that or half less of this, and
so that it kind of just makes it a little
more manageable for them. But there are guys who do
have some specific needs and so you do have to
have some conversation to ensure that you know, they know
how to navigate our spaces or what's going to be
the best decisions for them.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Okay, So backing up to the shake for a minute,
because that, as Johnny and I indicated, is news to
both of us who had no idea that that happened.
What is your pregame routine? And like how early are
you getting there before the game? And then what is
your post game routine? Because I would imagine you and
E kind of just live at the TCC when we're
playing at home.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I would say that I'm probably there then more than
what is healthy, Oh my all, it does. Yeah, it
comes with the territory of a little bit. So on
a game day at home, I actually won't well game
day or on the road, but I usually won't leave
the rink once we get there. So staff bus or
even at home, you're probably getting there around seven or
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eight am, if a morning skate can be anywhere from
ten or eleven o'clock. Anything leading up to that's just
making sure or that at home in our spaces already
we have I would say kind of like all a
cart menu that will put up on the TV, so
that guys kind of have options of like, hey, what
do you need? Do you need structure and you want
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kind of a warm up because some guys just want
to be you know, walked through something sweet that we
can do, or you know, you're very good at managing
yourself sweet. Pick three of these five things and you know,
make sure that you're just preparing yourself in a good
way so that can kind of get you through the morning.
As soon as that morning skate's done, that's usually when
actually a healthy scratch would come in and work out,
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or an injured player would work out. So depending on
what's going on, you'll have those guys train that really
gives you a gap of around twelve twelve thirty to
three is like complete downtime or free time. That's usually
when all again, I can leave go do something else
because I do need to get outside. It's what you
realize quick that you're inside all day and you live
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in a very sunny place, so that sun is energy.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It feels good and it does help just to leave.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But there's other days where I'll stay, I'll work out myself.
You know, I don't have to feel rushed on anything,
and that's nice. But then around three o'clock is when
I'll start preparing for any of our game day stuff,
So that means putting in any of our player output
tracking devices that we use on like the more of
the sports science side, or we probably have it probably
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uses about thirty different water bottles, but we kind of
have like four to five like pre game drink options
that we make for guys, again depending on what their
needs are or what their wants are, and so I'll
kind of prep that, make sure that that's ready by
the time they get here.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's cold, it's in their stall, it's ready. And then
leading up.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
To game time, you're again just kind of watching making
sure does anybody need anything. There's people who have very
steady routines, you don't even have to manage them at all.
There's also people you know, like before they go for
the on ice warm up, I have an off ice
warm up. It's not inatory, but you want something you
don't want to think, and you just want to be
able to feel warm leaving come hang out with me.
(09:07):
That'll lead you into a game where I don't have
to really do anything during the game besides set up
the post game. And that's where again you're just making
sure that a guy has some sort of all around proteins,
carbs things like that ready for them to drink, right away,
because that is important that we do have some level
of timing to start putting things back into the system,
or start putting gas back into the tank, if you will.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Okay, okay, And then for super Bowl, I see you
out there. Are you part of it or are you
just kind of on the fringes and getting entertained by
the absolute chaos of Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I would say I'm a fringe person. I will do
it from time to time, rarely, just to mix it in.
I think you have to know going into that that
those guys don't care about you playing at all. They
just want to get back in. If they're out, ye
on for them to continue to play. It's okay, but
it's definitely more entertaining. I try and make sure of
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if it's game time. You know, I don't need to
be playing soccer. I'd rather be ready if somebody does
need something, or if somebody does want to do something,
that you're available to them. You're not caught doing something else.
But it's it's a pastime that everybody does love to watch.
It is entertaining. It does get competitive, so it's it is.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
It's also a little scary. I just I just want
to share that. I think if you were if a
civilian was walking by and saw the madness of super Bawl, Like,
getting too close is a little bit scary because there's
the blinders that are on and the singular focus on
keeping that ball in the air is Yeah, it's a
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little it's a little scary to be physically close to that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, you have to come with the understanding that you
know you're going to be around sixteen to twenty small horses.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That aren't aware of anything.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Also, they're there to just compete with each other, so
it definitely can be a little awkward if you're walking
by you don't know the rules. There are guys like
to get squirrely with that game too, and and you know,
all of a sudden you have a soccer ball. It's
flying into all different areas back there, so you never
know when something might just accidentally hit you in the head. Unfortunately,
you got to keep your head on a swivel.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Or you can you can accidentally fall in front of
everybody like I did when the guys uh asked me
to come you You weren't there, right, Parker.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I don't think you saw.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That, but good six feet away from that and I
saw it you did.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Oh Parker, explain it. Let's hear it from your perspective.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh no, no, I I think what what happened with
that was Shafe Schaefe was a man stepped up to
the circle, and uh, I think it's you know, it's
a tough one when you do try and go for
a bit of a trick shot on your first try.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You gotta keep it simple and play within your means.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
And credit to him, he tried to go forward a
little bit and uh, you know, unfortunately took a tumble
on that but popped right back up.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
No change in state, no change in anything like that.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I think it was more so the awkward part of,
you know, not understanding the rules and having the guys
back all right, Shafe, Well, sadly you're out.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So yeah, no, that was the best part.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Rotto was like you're actually out and I'm like, oh, okay,
then I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Bye.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Just did That's why you have to accept they don't
they don't care if you're in route. They just want
to be able to get back in and sometimes at
your own expense.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, well, Donor.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Donor explained the like rules to us, like a week
later because we had him on the show as well,
and like because it was like the second time in
a row it was called into the circle and I'm like,
why do these guys want me to play with them?
And I realized is because when you get a new
player in the game, it resets, so like I was
just pretty much a body to be there. And uh yeah,
I did did not go well trying to kick that
ball up, but I was okay it it hurt. It
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actually hurt really bad, but I had to play it off.
You know, I could have just because.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You sold it. You were fine. We were surprised by that.
So credit to you on that. When you you sold
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So it combs up from the performance coach.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, the first considering all that went down, I I
would say that was a win.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Friend.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
There was entertainment of it. There was drama, and there
was resolution. That's that's a perfect story, right.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Oh well no, but no romance, unfortunately, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Next time, maybe me with me with the floor, Me
with the floor, that was that was the romance, Me
with the floor.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty and we're talking to the roadrunners.
Strengthened performance coach Parkerport Parker, How do you get into
a position like you have right now? Like, you know,
where did you go to school? What do you study?
How did you get this job? You know, you know,
in case there's someone listening out there who wants to
do what you do?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
How did you get in this position right now?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Sure? So I went to college for exercise science.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I went to a smaller D two school about thirty
minutes outside of Saint Louis. It was called Lindenwood University.
Hockey fans might know it now because it's now turning
into an NCAA D one, you know hockey program. When
I was there, it was already D one for women's
But I went there and did exercise science while while
I was there, and I was fortunate enough my senior year,
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I actually was able to get an internship with the
Saint Louis Blues and I hung out there all summer
and that was like my first taste of professional hockey.
There was maybe only six or eight guys that kind
of stayed around for the entire summer, but again it was,
you know, your first taste of what is it like
working with not only a pro athlete, what is it
like working with pro hockey? What is it like on
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a day to day there, and again learning you know,
what do you like, what do you not like. I
worked as a student assistant in our strength and conditioning
department there as well, where I worked with like three
or four different teams, so you kind of got some
exposure of what that job would be like in a
college setting, what that exposure would be like, or what
the you know, setting would be like for professional sports,
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and it it was something I had always had interest
in with hockey. So school was wrapping up, I still
had an internship credit that I want to do for school.
I had no more classes to take physically in person,
so took advantage of being able to go try something
different and I actually took an internship up at a
facility in Phoenix called Exos.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And it was a six months you've heard of Allen Kim.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, I have. I have a friend who works there
right now, actually.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Nice, and so I got to go out there. I
have an uncle that lives in Phoenix. I stayed out
there with him for six months. But at the end
of that is when I met a person who used
to be our head of strength and conditioning for who
was at the time, the Coyotes, and got along with them.
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That was kind of like an inn if you will,
because I stayed around that summer. I helped them out
with their stuff, similar to like I did with Saint Louis,
and just kind of stayed in good contact with them.
I eventually got other jobs at other places after that
internship kind of started my career, but I would always
I ended up always finding my way back to Arizona,
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staying friends with my network.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
In those guys there. A guy's name was JP Major.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
And Kurt Truey unbelievable people, and they've taught me a lot.
But I kind of just was a cockroach and I
just never really went away. I kind of was just
always hanging around or always available. And so thankfully actually,
as we were coming back from COVID that first season,
they were promoting the at the time strength and conditioning
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coach here, Matt Harder. They brought him up they needed
to hire here, and I essentially eventually got the job.
And so I've I've been here since, you know, just
been able to enjoy it. It's my fifth season and yeah,
it's it's a very hectic and chaotic environment. But it's fun,
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it's challenging, it has pressure to it, and so I
find that very rewarding.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I think that's the best part of this of this industry,
right working in hockey, because you know, it's not your
typical nine to five, and you know, the nine to
five's are for a lot of people, I don't think
it's for people like us because we like having something
new to have a challenge of every day, and we
like the challenges and everything, and we like the excitement.
So yeah, we appreciate what you do, Parker, because it
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seems like you have a really big role in this
team on a day to day basis, especially on those
game days when you said that you stay at the
arena all day.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It kind of becomes your second home.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It does.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun though, and like
you said, it's there are nine to fives. I've joked
with our staff, whether it's you know, Zach Stortini or
Potsi or players of you know, you could be at
a job that is going to be nine to five.
Our practice days, it's really like seven to two. Like
that's a very privileged life to be able to get
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out of there at that hour. Obviously a game day
is more, but to work in the environment and to
honestly have it be as loose as it can be,
with everybody being able to joke around with one another
or to just have stuff pop up that I don't
think traditionally comes into normal work setting.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
It is fun, it is entertaining, and it has its challenge,
so it's different. It's not for everybody, but if you
you know, if you do like it and you are
willing to put time into it, it can be very rewarding.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
So Parker, when you were at Linnenwood University and you
were part of roller hockey Gold in twenty thirteen, you
dyed your hair bleach blonde, and I need to know
what happened behind that. And I think that our socials
probably need to post the picture of bleach blonde Parker,
because it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I will politely request that we don't do that. But
the research, No, I did not.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
When you were saying I was going to get some questions,
I did not expect that one. So I'm on my
heels now, got me there. No, it was a team thing,
like a lot of stuff. You know, you get club
sports while they were there. I've played ice hockey. I've
played roller hockey my entire life, you know, one in
the summer, one in the winter, and that was what
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I was doing while I was there in college. It
actually helped pay for some of my school because it
was one of the only schools that gives out grants
for it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It was cool. It was something different.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Definitely not a normal way to have some of your
school paid for, but it worked out. And every year
when you would go to a national tournament, it would
always have something team related, like, Okay, everybody's going to
do a mustache this year.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Every's going to die their hair blonde.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
So twenty thirteen would have been my freshman year when
I was there, So that was eighteen night. That was
probably eighteen year old me, just doing what you're told
and just trying to just fit in.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
I did try to find a picture of you without
a mustache, and I'm absolutely convinced that one doesn't exist,
that you were probably just born with a mustache.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
At this point they do.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I actually am kind of surprised that I've fallen into
this facial setup as well. I didn't have one until
I started dating my wife, and I randomly grew on
out one time and she was kind of just me
like yeah, I'm I'm with it, and then I shaved
it like without it, and so you kind of have
to listen now, it like something about you like, all right,
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we'll just keep that going.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And you guys got very just past October, right or.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is it it was August? Actually?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, August it way off, way off.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
No, No, it's uh it was in uh it was
in August, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
We did it in Mexico where her family is from,
in Guadalajara, and it was it was insane. We came back,
we had maybe like seven days and I had to
go to Utah for a month for preseason training camp,
rookie tournament and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So again to your point on.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
This industry and this business is is wacky and weird.
You know, it wasn't necessarily the way we.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Drew it up. We'll do the honeymoon this upcoming summer.
But it was awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
And Travis Barron was one of your groomsmen, right.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
He was, Yeah, yeah, he was, So that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Yeah, I start to you lightly.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You have to do your research for your job. That's
that's fair on it. But yeah, no, he was one
of it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Travis has been here for I think this is his
fourth year now, I've been you know, able to get
to know him from away from the rink, and yeah,
it was something of at the time, it you know,
seemed like he fit to be in there, and so
I was glad that he was able to make it
out there and be a part of that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Really fortunate.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
That's awesome. Okay, And we've talked a little bit, a
tiny bit about your wife, Florencia, right do and we
talked about Mexican food quite quite honestly more than anything else,
I think. Yeah, but but do you do you speak
Spanish at all?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Any so, yeah, I can confidence. Yeah, that's hard, is low.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
But prior to marriage, one of the things that my wife,
or Flow and I had talked about, you know, was
I understand that this is this is your first languae,
which this is your parents' first language. This is a
big part of you know, your life and now our family.
So I'm entering the marathon. I have my racing bib
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on and my number. But I've told her, you know,
I'm not sprinting. I'm going to finish this race.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You have my word.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
But yeah, so I do about a thirty forty five
minute lesson four times a week minimum, and I shoot
for five.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
So I try to be on it. I try and
make it a priority, and I'm getting better. I understand
way more than I can speak. I'm comfortable speaking, but yeah,
I try to practice where I can. And it's hard
when your spouse's you and your spouse's relationship is built
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off of one language, but you're trying to implement another.
And so when and where do you choose to speak what,
especially when you don't get to see each other as much.
So it's either you can talk to me like I'm
six in Spain, or you can talk to me in
English and we can talk about anything we need to
or whatever's going on. Right, But I'll get there eventually. Yeah,
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it's been exciting, it's been challenging, but it's it's important
to us. Her parents are families together, and you know
eventually the family will have.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
And it's just not a running race, like when you
think about it, it's almost like an iron man because
it's not just Spanish. It's like all the little nuances
of you know, the the colloquialisms that that people speak,
you know, when when they're speaking a different language, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
And the fact that in Spanish, you know, you have
words that it's it's the same word, but it changes
how you say it depending on the context that it
needs to come in. So if I'm speaking to you
versus a group or like, you know, the word changes
and so you feel like it's one word, but you
need to remember actually three or four depending on what
you're trying to say or how you're trying to get
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it across.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So I think the older you get definitely the harder
it is.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I wish it would have paid more attention in high
school when I took Spanish amount of pay it off
a little more.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But we're there now.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
We'll get to the finish line eventually, and just try
and chip away at talking when you can or practicing
when you can.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
That's awesome, Okay. So pivoting back to the work that
you do at the TCC and and the gym, I
don't know if if the listeners know that there's actually
a gym in the TCC for the players, and that's
Parkers essentially your office, right, I would want.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
To be there, right, You have a desk in the
in the gym.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, are we call it the junk yard.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
It's like a blue collar and you know it's a
blue collar league, so that's nice. But yeah, it's it's
a chain link fence that surrounds our space. We have,
thankfully everything.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That you would need.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Our our organization from times of you know, Arizona to
now even Utah has bought into off ice preparation and
off ice training and that does make you know, my
life a lot easier that, you know, we don't have
to tell a player we don't have that, or having
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to work around things because we don't have the resource.
We're very fortunate that the space for what it is
is very good. Having traveled to other teams and seen
their spaces and stuff, again, like you would be surprised
of how much other spaces could be smaller or just
not as efficient. So while that space is not a
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Lamborghini in appearance, it's it's definitely a four Bronco and
appearance it actually might have Lamborghini under the hood in
terms of the engine and everything. So it's it's been nice.
A bit of an aggressive example obviously, but it's it's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I've I've liked it.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Speaking of Lamborghini's, I don't know if you follow Spitting Chicklets,
I'm assuming that you probably do. They posted today the
Michigan State Spartans their training facility. Have you seen the
videos of how high tech that facility is?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yep, So that's I think. One of the funny things
to me that you'll have is you could have a
player come to us from a Michigan State, from a
Notre Dame quint Yack. You know, we have we have
players that have come from very high level college universities
and will look like a closet compared to these schools.
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You'd think, because it's pro hockey, it's all of a
sudden everything keeps getting better and better and nicer and nicer.
But the truth of the matter is, you know that
that business of the NCAA as a whole, but much
less you know, or those schools that they can go to.
It's it's insane and it's really is impressive that you
know the their they're human performance labs. That's not just
a gym, that's that is something where they're trying to
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get down to every single percentage that they can get
out of a player, and it is really cool to see.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
One of the things that their coach talked about was
kind of keeping track of all of the guys and
their stats, and you know, who's lifting the heaviest and
who's running the fastest, and do you do stuff like
that for our guys. Is that that competition happening in
the junk yard?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, we do.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
We thankfully have uh say, three different ways that we
can kind of do that. So you might have saw
it on that video, see guys jumping up and they're
on some type of a plate.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It's called the force plate.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
We have that and that helps me actually account for
where we neurologically, are we fatigued, are we are we
ready to go? You know what kind of area are
we in? But most of our guys know what's normal
for them. So when they come in and they can
now you know, start getting on each other if I
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can jump higher than you or you can jump higher,
and it creates competition and same thing like you might
have saw on that video.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We have some other things that can help.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Track bar speed or how fast something is for a guy,
how slow it might be for a guy because again,
different guys might need different things at different times, and
so it is fun when all of a sudden we
can create a year board on a day and just say, hey,
here's one object who can pick it up the quickest
and it might be heavier, but it starts to separate,
you know, who's really strong and then can you compete
or can you push yourself to do a little more
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than you can? So from my side, anything that's competition
based actually makes my job a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So we're very fortunate to have a couple of those tools.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
When is your birthday? That was the only thing I
couldn't find online?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
May eighteenth, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Oh, that's just one of my birthdays and one of
my closest friends.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's really yeah awesome, Yeah, yeah, no, it was a
good year. Not mad about it.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Do you know what your sign is? It's not meant
to stump you. I don't know the answer and I'm
gonna google it, but I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Wouldn't that be a Taurus? You are a Taurus, honest
quality person.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Bro, I'm not either, I just don't course.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
There's only one other tourists on the team. Do you
want to take a guess at who it is later
and I'll tell you it, says a Taurus. Mail is
typically described as loyal, dependable, practical, patient, and grounded. They
love stability, quality, and the finer things in life, but
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are also stubborn when their opinions are challenged. Yes, it's
fairly accurate.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
College might come through it sometimes on a selling point.
I don't know who the closest would be on that.
I'm gonna go Peter deliberatory.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Ooh, that that is actually a good guess. But no,
Peter's and Ari's his birthdays. At the end of March,
you and Ardam are the only tourists.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Me the Arty Party. I like that.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, all right, one last question, and it's super unhinged.
I've never asked anybody this question before, mainly because I
think I know the answer to this question if I
were to ask one of the players. But if you
were kidnapped where you are right now, and you were
driven to la and onto the studio the set of
Jeopardy the Quiz Show, and you were forced to play Jeopardy,
do you think you would end up with a positive
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number or a negative number at the end of the.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Jeopardy positive but low.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Oh okay, so not winning the but winning the whole thing?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Do you think I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I actually feel like I'm pretty good at trivia. I'm
pretty like I'm decently rounded. I wouldn't say I'm a
whiz at any of that stuff, but I do enjoy
that stuff, so I'm not bothered by that. I just
don't think I'm probably taking that home. I'd like to
think I'm in the positive, but I'm probably taking home
five dollars.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Okay, honestly better than zero. I can see that. Yeah, no,
I think you would be positive.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Also, I appreciate that vote of confidence. Yeah, of course,
of course.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Okay, wait, one last question and then I'm done. I
swear to God, one last question that I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Whatever you need.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
What's your favorite twenty twenty four Team Memory.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Twenty twenty you said twenty twenty fourteen twenty four.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Twenty twenty four, between the two seasons Team Memory.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Team Memory. There you go.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Oh yeah, I heard. I heard the same thing.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I was confused, like, that's kind of you're in trouble
for Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, fun.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Team one we got stranded during main camp. Oh no,
because I would have been twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Nevermind, OK, And now I want to kind of hear
that story though.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That one I can tell you on another time if
you guys are pressed for time. But that album was
one of the crazier Team Flight things. AH favorite memory.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
We haven't had much to go so far this year,
so I'm trying to think back. I don't I don't
know if I have one. I think thanks, and I
don't mean in a bad way. There was nothing that
stood out, but I think, you know, Shave, you can
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kind of piggyback off of this. But like when you
travel like we do, and when you kind of are
going around, like there's always something that's entertaining and happening.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So I think it's.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
More of the floor for boredom is extremely high. There's
always somebody making fun of somebody, There's always something going on,
and so I think kind of just those banter moments
end up being the best because again it kind of
goes back to like we could not say this in
a regular.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We wouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
In these situations or arguments in an office setting, so
I would have to really think hard on it. But
I guess that's kind of like a blanketed, broad, boring answer.
Just like anytime that we can kind of get everybody
going or an argument going, I think those end up
being some of the best ones, just because it is
just court without any order and everybody's yelling their opinions
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or their statements.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So I'll go with something like that.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Okay, all right, no guardrails.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
No, that makes it the guard.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
As much as I do like order structure according to astrology,
I think for an argument's sake, just let the gate
open and just see what happens and deal with it
on the back end.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, that's what we do every day for this job. Well, Parker,
thanks so much for joining us again. We really appreciate it,
and uh we'll see you when we uh head for
Coachella Valley and looking forward to this next trip with
more chaos coming up for us.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Well, thanks guys for having me on. This was fun.
So glad I finally got to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Awesome, Parker thranks so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
No problem, you guys, have a good night, see you too.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
See it Roadrunners happier with Jonathan Shaffer and Kim coder Robas.
We just had the strength and performance coach Parker Poor
on the show. Kim, I never knew he was never
unhappy our before. He said this was a first for him.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Uh, I was.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I could have sworn he was on the show last year,
So uh great having him on.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
You know, It's it's great having people that the fans
don't see as much behind the scenes on the show
and like to get to see what, who's the guy
that's keeping our team in shape, you know, as much
as practice games do, but like you need the people
to give them the right nutrition and give them the
right conditioning and everything. And yeah, from what Parker was saying,
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I mean we already knew, but him actually telling us
what his day to day looks like. He's a huge
part of this team and when the Roadrunners are winning
games too, I think one of the unsung heroes is
definitely Parker Poor because he's helping the team perform enough
to win big games.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
He is definitely one of the people behind the scenes
that I know. If he had a TikTok or an
insta account where he did a day in his life,
people would be all over it because it's fascinating. The
work that he does is fascinating, and I when I
get to the arena pre game, Parker is usually one
of the very first people that I run into because
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the junkyard is right next to the Green Report. I
hang out it, and every once in a while we'll
eat together. But I love giving him, like drive my
interview questions and asking him just the most random things.
And he talks to me about the Catapult system, which
is the system that the guys that's that's in the
jerseys or in the vest that the guys told me
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about capture all of the data that the guys and
he captures all of it during the game. We've had
very extensive conversations about this stuff. So to me, it's
I think anybody who likes hockey is interested in the
work that Parker is doing for sure.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
And that's why I like, I wanted to see too,
like if I wanted to be in his position, what
what do I do to get there? And And I
meant to ask him too if he ever knew Eric Bechdel,
because Eric used to work with the Saint Louis Blues
for a bit. So I don't know what that time
I don't know what that time frame is like because
I don't know when he worked for the Blues, but
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I forgot to ask if maybe he knew him or
knew of him. Yeah, I don't know because I always
forget when. Obviously he's been here since the beginning, but
I don't remember when exactly he was with the Blues,
so I'll have to ask him that later. But yeah,
shed a big shout out to Parker Poort. He's a
huge part of this team, keeping the guys, you know,
pretty much up to shape.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And yeah, that could what was it, what'd you call it?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
The the thing that the players use when they're skating
out their catapult?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Catapult? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I always saw him with like his computer, just walking around.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, with computers and I'm like, yeah, are you
like checking your emails?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
And he kind of like showed me how it worked,
and I was like, this is cool. I Like, it's
one of those things where you go and start working
in hockey that you just have no idea from an
outside perspective of a fan of what goes on the
day today. And that's one of the things where I'm like,
that's sick, and I'm like, how do people not know
about this?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
You know?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, but I think with social media, we're
getting to know more and more. Like at World Juniors
this year, there was actually chips in the puck this year,
and the data that they were able to capture between
like who hit the puck and how fast, what's going on,
how hard they hit it and all that stuff like
that's Parker's that's his niche. He loves he loves that stuff.
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So very very excited that we finally had a chance
to get to talk to him. Plus he just got married,
which is awesome. And that part about Travis bean hit
his wedding, I just found that out today.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah, I didn't know that. That's really cool. I'm glad
Baron got to go to that too. But all right, Kim,
So this past weekend, broad Runners played the Texas Stars
Split the series. You know, we'll take the Split. Stars
are a good team this year, kind of becoming our
little rivals in the Central Division. I would say if
you wore to pick one, because those games get those
games got a little scrappy.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
We saw a couple of fights as well.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
I think the big story of the weekend Cameron Heebeg
scoring his first career hat trick and Kim Cameron Hebig
and I've been bantering on about this all week and long,
and I'm not gonna shut up about it because it's
so awesome. He's having his best season statistically yet at
this point. I did some math about it. It's gonna
be on the Tucson Rubbers road ahead that will be
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coming out or already it's out today. If you want
to go read at Tucson Rubbers do but if you
want to read more on that, If Cameron he Big
plays every single game for the Road Runs up to
this point, because he's missed five games, so we'll say
sixty seven games total. If he plays every game up
to this point, stat wise, he is in line to
score twenty four goals season high, which would be amazing
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because over twenty goals in a season is considered really
good for any player. Twenty four goals and twenty one
assists for forty five points, which would easily be his
best career. Yet he is in his fifth season. He's
in line to become the second player of a Road
Rus history and most games played and the first if
he continues to just keep playing, and we're seeing it
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in an historic season for one of the best guys
to play for the team.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Yes, absolutely, I am a big Cameron Hey, big fan.
I in the last four seasons that I've been with
the team, every time I talk to Cameron and you
and I talked about this in one of the pregames
that I ask him every summer, you know, what did
you do this summer? Because he comes back every year bigger, faster, better,
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just more agile. He's doing all the work. So to
see it pay off for him and this way is
absolutely fantastic. And I like to make fun of camera too,
because he likes to read. He's got he's a really
big book guy. And he doesn't eat out a lot
some of them. Some of them don't write, you know,
they like to meal prep, they like to stay on
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their diets. But I always joke that when Cameron Hebig
is not at the TCC on the ice, that he
is sitting at home eating boiled chicken, because he is
just that that focused that if it's not about it,
if it's not about you know, the roadrunners and getting better,
then he's reading finance books and eating just pure protein.
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That's that's the man's life. So to see him at
finally not finally, because like I said, he's been he
has been growing and you can see his develop meant
over the years, he's a poster child for this league
as far as I'm concerned. He has developed and he
continues to become bigger, better, faster.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah, and he's like he's absolutely grinded up to this point.
Started with the Bakersfield Condors, had a good rookie season,
and then came to the road Runners afterwards, and you know,
just was you know, kept signing the deals to stay
in Tucson, just you know, working away because I know
he believes that this organization is going to propel him
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to the next level and for him to come back
for a fifth year because you know, as much as
we love having our guys here, everyone wants the best
opportunity for each other, and you just every obviously you
just don't know who's going to stay, who's going to go.
You know, we saw a couple of main staple Roadrunners
leave this past sausseason, and we're happy for them because
they're all in good situations as well. But when we
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got that notification that hebec was coming for the fifth year,
it's like, let's go. You know, we got one of
our our main guys back and all of a sudden,
you know, fourteen points his last fifteen games, he's tied
for second on the team and goals, he's top five
on the team and scoring as well. It's been really
rewarding for him to just see the way that he's
been playing, because we've known how great of a player
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he is, but now the stats are starting to show
it too. And if he continues this pace, he's gonna
start becoming a problem for a lot of opponents down
our stretch.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
He is in the past, I have referred to him
as the Swiss Army knife of this team, and somehow
he has become a bigger knife, you know, like he
was just a little pocket knife, and then he's just
getting to become a bigger and bigger and more useful
tool in the drawer. But I love seeing him on
the lines. The line that he's on right now. The
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Friday game is that right. We had Friday Saturday games
this last weekend. Friday game was electric and lots of
fun to watch. Saturday game was more disheartening. Just the
gel wasn't there for the entire team. I felt like
so and going into Coachella tomorrow and then San Diego.
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It's kind of a roller coaster, right because Coachella is
playing well. San Diego. I don't want to say they're
playing poorly, but they're behind us in in the division,
they're behind us in the standings. Not having last time
we saw them recently, you know, like.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
It was it's a good game.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
It was a good game, not not not a super
intense contest. I don't want to I don't want to
be rude, but it's good. I think playing Coello, playing
Coachella on one day and then playing San Diego two
days later, it's it's gonna be They're very it's very disparate,
those those two teams. So it'll be interesting to see
the Boys pivot from from just that one game in Coachella. Right,
(42:55):
So just the one game in Coachella on the Wednesday,
and then the Friday Saturday in San Diego, and then
being away from home for so long this month and
being on the bus a lot. I think it's either
gonna be fantastic and the Boys are gonna do really
well with it, and or I think it's gonna be
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difficult and a little bit hard to deal with. But
I think it's gonna be a good thing.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be a fun trip for sure. Big
stretch coming up for the road Runners. When we come
back after this quick break, we're gonna talk about more
of the upcoming trip.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Right here, we just had strength and Performance.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Coach Parker Poor on this show talked about Cameron Heebick's
historic weekend, scoring his first hat trick of his American
Hockey League career. And now the Roadrunners continue on this
stretch away from the Tucson Arena, coming tomorrow night in
Coachella Valley at Actors Arena versus the Coachella Valley Firebirds,
and we have two games following this weekend against the
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San Diego Goals and then after that two more against
the Calgary Ringliss to conclude the trip. Kim, I think
this game tomorrowmorrow in Coachella Valley is the biggest of
the road trip because.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
What oh sorry, I had to cough. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Keep going now you're laughing while you're laughing at me.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
Oh my gosh, sorry, I get something in my throat
like and it scared me all of a sudden. I'm
so sorry you.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Scared me, all right, Sorry about that, so we have
a I think the biggest game of this of this
end of this trip called you got Me all fluster Now.
I'm so choosed right now for this game, Kim, because
it's it's one game. It's not a back to back.
Whatever happens, it's on the table because then you don't
play them again until February. And we only play the
Firebirds four times this year, so every game against them
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counts when it comes to that rivalry, you know, and
even with the standings too, you know, you want these
points against this team that you're battling in the standings with.
And I think tomorrow night's game is the biggest of
this up the rest of this trip.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
It's a it's a difficult environment too. I think it
is a really it's an intimate arena. So if I
don't know how to describe it, like when we're at
the TCC, it's so big and it's cavernous, and you
know it's there, there could be like gaps between where
people are sitting and the team, you know, getting close
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to the ice at Akrocher, it's to me, it feels
so intimate. It's tight, and it's dark in there, and
the fans are loud, and however they built that arena
makes the fans louder. And then we just we have
history with these guys. So it's even if they we
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weren't as close in the standings as we are to
them right now, I think it would still be a test,
and it would still I think, you know, the guys
are not just going to be playing a physical game.
I think it's very much a mental game when we
go into Coachella. Also.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
Yeah, and you can argue that they have the most
hostile arena in the hl's Pacific Division.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
They're top five in attendance.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
It's a Wednesday night game, but I think they're so
gonna draw about maybe eight thousand fans when you go
through on a weekend, though it's a lot more, but
it's still gonna be hostile. We went three and one
in that arena last year. We're four and four overall
in the two seasons, so not terrible again for what
that arena throws at you in a game like what
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we're about to experience. And yeah, it's just something about
the rivalry between these two teams, and though we only
played them four times, it just it makes every more
game so much more important, and especially that it's the
one off, so it's continuing on on this trip. It's
a big trip coming up for Tuson. We're battling it
away and just trying to climb up those standings.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
Yeah, and I think too again, and it's only one game, right,
It's it's a midweek game, and then it's such a
quick quick trip. I'm assuming the bus ride is happening
directly after the game on Wednesday night to San Diego
and it's yeah, and then it's a quick turnover into
into San Diego. So I honestly don't know how the
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boys mentally wrap their minds around, Okay, this day we're
doing this, and then the next day we're doing this.
It's it's a lot. It seems like it's it's a lot.
I know that last season they were actually able to
work with a coach who was able to help them
with kind of like some of the stress and anxiety,
the mental exhaustion that can come from quick turnover series
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like this. So but I know that, you know that,
I know that Stephen and slains and starts really helped
manage that. So as uh, yeah, I think that this
this road trip is going to be a big test
for the boys, kind of like Texas was.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
That was Texas was.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
It was a good test, and I get some footing
after Texas. The boys had Monday off and then now
looking straight into straight into the mouth of the Firebirds,
so to speak.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Yeah, that's that's really good. And yeah, as much as
it's it's a test, we're excited for it. As Parker
said earlier, we look forward to the challenges and we're
gonna take them head on.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Camp. Thanks for joining me again for this show. Great show.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Thanks to Parker Port for joining us as well for
our first segment. If you want to listen to the
podcast version of this, go to Tucson roadns dot com
slash happy Er. We will see you tomorrow night in
Coachellabette Valley. This has been Roadands Happier see tomorrow, folks.
Have a good rest of your night.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's our usual Tuesday night get together.
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So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Maybe we should start implementing some breakdance pregames during the
season and see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right here on Tucson Sports Day yet Fox Sports fourteen
fifty AM.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am, our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happier. My name is Jonathan Schaeffer, with co host
Kim Coda roblaz and joining us right at the top
of the hour, the Roadrunners Strength and Performance Coach Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Poor Parker. How's it going man, It's going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Guys, this is the first time one for me, So
I am both high anxiety and high excitement.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You never were. You not unhappier last year at all.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Now I traded so hard. I traded so hard to
get parked on the show last year. You douay no
idea how excited I am?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
That's funny. Well, yeah, because Kim was just like, let's
get Parker on this show. I'm like, okay, cool, Yeah,
we haven't grabbed it yet, but I thought you were
on the show last year. Well, welcome to Roadrunners. Happy,
We're glad you're here with us for the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, I appreciate it. Like Kim said, I can be
a bit of a recluse.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
So when you get me, you get me and so happy.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
To be here.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, in case there's fans out there who don't know
who you are, just tell us what your day to
day role is for the road Runners and how long
you've been with the team, and just yeah, let people
know who Parker Poor is.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Okay, So yeah, my title would be, you know, the
strength conditioning coach, performance coach. I think there's people who
would call it multiple different titles. But I work with
our athletes on the off ice side from the day
to day training that they do, because even in season,
we have the benefit of mirroring more of a college
sports schedule than honestly an NHL schedule, and so that
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does allow us time to train off ice and try
to accomplish some goals there. On top of that to
work with anybody in a rehab setting, I will usually
work back and forth with our physical therapist, Nikki Patel
on when I need to do something versus when she
needs to do something when we do have injuries. And
then I would also say that I get to monitor
(02:15):
our players from our sports signs that we use in house.
And then I would finish off with saying on game days,
I run a jama juice.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Oh wait, talk about the Jama juice more?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Wait, what our players get a shake post game? And
so I didn't know that the other of the flavors,
and so in between periods that's what I do. So
game days are actually usually my most boring. Uh, And
so I just joke that I run a Jama juice
during the game.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh wait, is that back in the locker room? Do
you guys have a little kitchen area back there?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, so you get vanilla and berry or chocolate peanut
butter banana.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I only have two. I don't do anything and two.
That's all you can order is those two.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Makes it makes it easier for you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And you're in charge of like the king for the
team too, right, like when we go on the road
or when we're eating at home? Are you the one
choosing what the guys eat on a day to day
basis when they're here.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So when we're here, thankfully, the TCC actually does a
really really good job of working with us. We've tried
to kind of give them a lot of freedom of
just hey, here, here's your bumpers. If you can stay
in that, that makes our life a lot easier because
there are parts of our day to day where as
much as a meal mate seem repetitive, but at least
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having the consistency of knowing what you're getting on a
certain day does mean a lot to our guys. But
then also at the same time too, to have a
variety of things that you know that helps mix up
the day to day. And so at home, Jake Wagman
and I both kind of can manage that, but I
will usually, you know, a meal's over the top, incredible, Hey,
I'll give them feedback and let them know, can we
(03:51):
have more stuff like this? Or if something you know
might not have been loved it's pretty rare, but again, hey,
can we avoid these things? And then when we're on
the road, Jake will send me our menu options given
the place that we're staying at and we can kind
of decide or pick from there, just like hey, I'd
stay away from this or I'd like to do that.
But it's it's pretty easy when they're kind of they're
all in template, so we don't have to do a
(04:12):
whole lot of work or a whole lot of instructing
with the places we go.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Do you do you manage like the coloric and taking
other guys around pretty like specific day it's a lot
of them like meal prep and everything, but they're eating
breakfast and lunch at the TCC righty, and then when
they're at home, you know, like, how are you do
you help them manage? Especially the guys don't cook or
who aren't going good and a lot of them, it
(04:38):
seems like there is a lot of them. Yeah, how
do you help them manage that?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I don't think there's as much management on that side
as I think some people would expect. I think we
try and have education towards not towards four guys to
just understand what their options should look like depending on
what they need, because absolutely they are guys that have
different needs.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We've had players.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Come in and both them management myself, you know, the
whole or you know, we know that we need to
put more muscle on a player, then we need to
give them guidance of when and how to do something.
Same thing though, we've had situations where a guy wants
to lose weight, and rightfully so depending on where his
goals are at or what you know, we need him
to be.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
At, and so how do we manage that.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I think it's very hard to count macros and count
calories in season as some of these guys are given
the variables that they have, So I and use a
lot of the simple stuff where it like, you know,
like your grains, you know how you've heard like it
should be the palm of your hand, or protein should
be able to fit in a certain size. And I
think kind of get guys to understand, like, you don't
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have to count something, but if normal is this, do
half more of that or half less of this, and
so that it kind of just makes it a little
more manageable for them. But there are guys who do
have some specific needs and so you do have to
have some conversation to ensure that you know, they know
how to navigate our spaces or what's going to be
the best decisions for them.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Okay, So backing up to the shake for a minute,
because that, as Johnny and I indicated, is news to
both of us who had no idea that that happened.
What is your pregame routine? And like how early are
you getting there before the game? And then what is
your post game routine? Because I would imagine you and
E kind of just live at the TCC when we're
playing at home.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I would say that I'm probably there then more than
what is healthy, Oh my all, it does. Yeah, it
comes with the territory of a little bit. So on
a game day at home, I actually won't well game
day or on the road, but I usually won't leave
the rink once we get there. So staff bus or
even at home, you're probably getting there around seven or
(06:51):
eight am, if a morning skate can be anywhere from
ten or eleven o'clock. Anything leading up to that's just
making sure or that at home in our spaces already
we have I would say kind of like all a
cart menu that will put up on the TV, so
that guys kind of have options of like, hey, what
do you need? Do you need structure and you want
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kind of a warm up because some guys just want
to be you know, walked through something sweet that we
can do, or you know, you're very good at managing
yourself sweet. Pick three of these five things and you know,
make sure that you're just preparing yourself in a good
way so that can kind of get you through the morning.
As soon as that morning skate's done, that's usually when
actually a healthy scratch would come in and work out,
(07:34):
or an injured player would work out. So depending on
what's going on, you'll have those guys train that really
gives you a gap of around twelve twelve thirty to
three is like complete downtime or free time. That's usually
when all again, I can leave go do something else
because I do need to get outside. It's what you
realize quick that you're inside all day and you live
(07:56):
in a very sunny place, so that sun is energy.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It feels good and it does help just to leave.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But there's other days where I'll stay, I'll work out myself.
You know, I don't have to feel rushed on anything,
and that's nice. But then around three o'clock is when
I'll start preparing for any of our game day stuff,
So that means putting in any of our player output
tracking devices that we use on like the more of
the sports science side, or we probably have it probably
(08:25):
uses about thirty different water bottles, but we kind of
have like four to five like pre game drink options
that we make for guys, again depending on what their
needs are or what their wants are, and so I'll
kind of prep that, make sure that that's ready by
the time they get here.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's cold, it's in their stall, it's ready. And then
leading up.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
To game time, you're again just kind of watching making
sure does anybody need anything. There's people who have very
steady routines, you don't even have to manage them at all.
There's also people you know, like before they go for
the on ice warm up, I have an off ice
warm up. It's not inatory, but you want something you
don't want to think, and you just want to be
able to feel warm leaving come hang out with me.
(09:07):
That'll lead you into a game where I don't have
to really do anything during the game besides set up
the post game. And that's where again you're just making
sure that a guy has some sort of all around proteins,
carbs things like that ready for them to drink, right away,
because that is important that we do have some level
of timing to start putting things back into the system,
or start putting gas back into the tank, if you will.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Okay, okay, And then for super Bowl, I see you
out there. Are you part of it or are you
just kind of on the fringes and getting entertained by
the absolute chaos of Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I would say I'm a fringe person. I will do
it from time to time, rarely, just to mix it in.
I think you have to know going into that that
those guys don't care about you playing at all. They
just want to get back in. If they're out, ye
on for them to continue to play. It's okay, but
it's definitely more entertaining. I try and make sure of
(10:03):
if it's game time. You know, I don't need to
be playing soccer. I'd rather be ready if somebody does
need something, or if somebody does want to do something,
that you're available to them. You're not caught doing something else.
But it's it's a pastime that everybody does love to watch.
It is entertaining. It does get competitive, so it's it is.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
It's also a little scary. I just I just want
to share that. I think if you were if a
civilian was walking by and saw the madness of super Bawl, Like,
getting too close is a little bit scary because there's
the blinders that are on and the singular focus on
keeping that ball in the air is Yeah, it's a
(10:44):
little it's a little scary to be physically close to that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, you have to come with the understanding that you
know you're going to be around sixteen to twenty small horses.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That aren't aware of anything.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Also, they're there to just compete with each other, so
it definitely can be a little awkward if you're walking
by you don't know the rules. There are guys like
to get squirrely with that game too, and and you know,
all of a sudden you have a soccer ball. It's
flying into all different areas back there, so you never
know when something might just accidentally hit you in the head. Unfortunately,
you got to keep your head on a swivel.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Or you can you can accidentally fall in front of
everybody like I did when the guys uh asked me
to come you You weren't there, right, Parker.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I don't think you saw.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That, but good six feet away from that and I
saw it you did.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Oh Parker, explain it. Let's hear it from your perspective.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh no, no, I I think what what happened with
that was Shafe Schaefe was a man stepped up to
the circle, and uh, I think it's you know, it's
a tough one when you do try and go for
a bit of a trick shot on your first try.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You gotta keep it simple and play within your means.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
And credit to him, he tried to go forward a
little bit and uh, you know, unfortunately took a tumble
on that but popped right back up.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
No change in state, no change in anything like that.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I think it was more so the awkward part of,
you know, not understanding the rules and having the guys
back all right, Shafe, Well, sadly you're out.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So yeah, no, that was the best part.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Rotto was like you're actually out and I'm like, oh, okay,
then I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Bye.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Just did That's why you have to accept they don't
they don't care if you're in route. They just want
to be able to get back in and sometimes at
your own expense.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, well, Donor.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Donor explained the like rules to us, like a week
later because we had him on the show as well,
and like because it was like the second time in
a row it was called into the circle and I'm like,
why do these guys want me to play with them?
And I realized is because when you get a new
player in the game, it resets, so like I was
just pretty much a body to be there. And uh yeah,
I did did not go well trying to kick that
ball up, but I was okay it it hurt. It
(12:42):
actually hurt really bad, but I had to play it off.
You know, I could have just because.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You sold it. You were fine. We were surprised by that.
So credit to you on that. When you you sold
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So it combs up from the performance coach.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, the first considering all that went down, I I
would say that was a win.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Friend.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
There was entertainment of it. There was drama, and there
was resolution. That's that's a perfect story, right.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Oh well no, but no romance, unfortunately, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Next time, maybe me with me with the floor, Me
with the floor, that was that was the romance, Me
with the floor.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty and we're talking to the roadrunners.
Strengthened performance coach Parkerport Parker, How do you get into
a position like you have right now? Like, you know,
where did you go to school? What do you study?
How did you get this job? You know, you know,
in case there's someone listening out there who wants to
do what you do?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
How did you get in this position right now?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Sure? So I went to college for exercise science.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I went to a smaller D two school about thirty
minutes outside of Saint Louis. It was called Lindenwood University.
Hockey fans might know it now because it's now turning
into an NCAA D one, you know hockey program. When
I was there, it was already D one for women's
But I went there and did exercise science while while
I was there, and I was fortunate enough my senior year,
(14:03):
I actually was able to get an internship with the
Saint Louis Blues and I hung out there all summer
and that was like my first taste of professional hockey.
There was maybe only six or eight guys that kind
of stayed around for the entire summer, but again it was,
you know, your first taste of what is it like
working with not only a pro athlete, what is it
like working with pro hockey? What is it like on
(14:25):
a day to day there, and again learning you know,
what do you like, what do you not like. I
worked as a student assistant in our strength and conditioning
department there as well, where I worked with like three
or four different teams, so you kind of got some
exposure of what that job would be like in a
college setting, what that exposure would be like, or what
the you know, setting would be like for professional sports,
(14:47):
and it it was something I had always had interest
in with hockey. So school was wrapping up, I still
had an internship credit that I want to do for school.
I had no more classes to take physically in person,
so took advantage of being able to go try something
different and I actually took an internship up at a
facility in Phoenix called Exos.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And it was a six months you've heard of Allen Kim.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, I have. I have a friend who works there
right now, actually.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Nice, and so I got to go out there. I
have an uncle that lives in Phoenix. I stayed out
there with him for six months. But at the end
of that is when I met a person who used
to be our head of strength and conditioning for who
was at the time, the Coyotes, and got along with them.
(15:34):
That was kind of like an inn if you will,
because I stayed around that summer. I helped them out
with their stuff, similar to like I did with Saint Louis,
and just kind of stayed in good contact with them.
I eventually got other jobs at other places after that
internship kind of started my career, but I would always
I ended up always finding my way back to Arizona,
(15:57):
staying friends with my network.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
In those guys there. A guy's name was JP Major.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
And Kurt Truey unbelievable people, and they've taught me a lot.
But I kind of just was a cockroach and I
just never really went away. I kind of was just
always hanging around or always available. And so thankfully actually,
as we were coming back from COVID that first season,
they were promoting the at the time strength and conditioning
(16:25):
coach here, Matt Harder. They brought him up they needed
to hire here, and I essentially eventually got the job.
And so I've I've been here since, you know, just
been able to enjoy it. It's my fifth season and yeah,
it's it's a very hectic and chaotic environment. But it's fun,
(16:46):
it's challenging, it has pressure to it, and so I
find that very rewarding.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I think that's the best part of this of this industry,
right working in hockey, because you know, it's not your
typical nine to five, and you know, the nine to
five's are for a lot of people, I don't think
it's for people like us because we like having something
new to have a challenge of every day, and we
like the challenges and everything, and we like the excitement.
So yeah, we appreciate what you do, Parker, because it
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seems like you have a really big role in this
team on a day to day basis, especially on those
game days when you said that you stay at the
arena all day.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
It kind of becomes your second home.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It does.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun though, and like
you said, it's there are nine to fives. I've joked
with our staff, whether it's you know, Zach Stortini or
Potsi or players of you know, you could be at
a job that is going to be nine to five.
Our practice days, it's really like seven to two. Like
that's a very privileged life to be able to get
(17:44):
out of there at that hour. Obviously a game day
is more, but to work in the environment and to
honestly have it be as loose as it can be,
with everybody being able to joke around with one another
or to just have stuff pop up that I don't
think traditionally comes into normal work setting.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
It is fun, it is entertaining, and it has its challenge,
so it's different. It's not for everybody, but if you
you know, if you do like it and you are
willing to put time into it, it can be very rewarding.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
So Parker, when you were at Linnenwood University and you
were part of roller hockey Gold in twenty thirteen, you
dyed your hair bleach blonde, and I need to know
what happened behind that. And I think that our socials
probably need to post the picture of bleach blonde Parker,
because it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I will politely request that we don't do that. But
the research, No, I did not.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
When you were saying I was going to get some questions,
I did not expect that one. So I'm on my
heels now, got me there. No, it was a team thing,
like a lot of stuff. You know, you get club
sports while they were there. I've played ice hockey. I've
played roller hockey my entire life, you know, one in
the summer, one in the winter, and that was what
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I was doing while I was there in college. It
actually helped pay for some of my school because it
was one of the only schools that gives out grants
for it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It was cool. It was something different.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Definitely not a normal way to have some of your
school paid for, but it worked out. And every year
when you would go to a national tournament, it would
always have something team related, like, Okay, everybody's going to
do a mustache this year.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Every's going to die their hair blonde.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
So twenty thirteen would have been my freshman year when
I was there, So that was eighteen night. That was
probably eighteen year old me, just doing what you're told
and just trying to just fit in.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
I did try to find a picture of you without
a mustache, and I'm absolutely convinced that one doesn't exist,
that you were probably just born with a mustache.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
At this point they do.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I actually am kind of surprised that I've fallen into
this facial setup as well. I didn't have one until
I started dating my wife, and I randomly grew on
out one time and she was kind of just me
like yeah, I'm I'm with it, and then I shaved
it like without it, and so you kind of have
to listen now, it like something about you like, all right,
(20:08):
we'll just keep that going.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And you guys got very just past October, right or.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is it it was August? Actually?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, August it way off, way off.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
No, No, it's uh it was in uh it was
in August, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
We did it in Mexico where her family is from,
in Guadalajara, and it was it was insane. We came back,
we had maybe like seven days and I had to
go to Utah for a month for preseason training camp,
rookie tournament and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So again to your point on.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
This industry and this business is is wacky and weird.
You know, it wasn't necessarily the way we.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Drew it up. We'll do the honeymoon this upcoming summer.
But it was awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
And Travis Barron was one of your groomsmen, right.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
He was, Yeah, yeah, he was, So that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Yeah, I start to you lightly.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You have to do your research for your job. That's
that's fair on it. But yeah, no, he was one
of it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Travis has been here for I think this is his
fourth year now, I've been you know, able to get
to know him from away from the rink, and yeah,
it was something of at the time, it you know,
seemed like he fit to be in there, and so
I was glad that he was able to make it
out there and be a part of that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Really fortunate.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
That's awesome. Okay, And we've talked a little bit, a
tiny bit about your wife, Florencia, right do and we
talked about Mexican food quite quite honestly more than anything else,
I think. Yeah, but but do you do you speak
Spanish at all?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Any so, yeah, I can confidence. Yeah, that's hard, is low.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
But prior to marriage, one of the things that my wife,
or Flow and I had talked about, you know, was
I understand that this is this is your first languae,
which this is your parents' first language. This is a
big part of you know, your life and now our family.
So I'm entering the marathon. I have my racing bib
(22:10):
on and my number. But I've told her, you know,
I'm not sprinting. I'm going to finish this race.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You have my word.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
But yeah, so I do about a thirty forty five
minute lesson four times a week minimum, and I shoot
for five.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
So I try to be on it. I try and
make it a priority, and I'm getting better. I understand
way more than I can speak. I'm comfortable speaking, but yeah,
I try to practice where I can. And it's hard
when your spouse's you and your spouse's relationship is built
(22:45):
off of one language, but you're trying to implement another.
And so when and where do you choose to speak what,
especially when you don't get to see each other as much.
So it's either you can talk to me like I'm
six in Spain, or you can talk to me in
English and we can talk about anything we need to
or whatever's going on. Right, But I'll get there eventually. Yeah,
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it's been exciting, it's been challenging, but it's it's important
to us. Her parents are families together, and you know
eventually the family will have.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
And it's just not a running race, like when you
think about it, it's almost like an iron man because
it's not just Spanish. It's like all the little nuances
of you know, the the colloquialisms that that people speak,
you know, when when they're speaking a different language, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
And the fact that in Spanish, you know, you have
words that it's it's the same word, but it changes
how you say it depending on the context that it
needs to come in. So if I'm speaking to you
versus a group or like, you know, the word changes
and so you feel like it's one word, but you
need to remember actually three or four depending on what
you're trying to say or how you're trying to get
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it across.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
So I think the older you get definitely the harder
it is.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I wish it would have paid more attention in high
school when I took Spanish amount of pay it off
a little more.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But we're there now.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
We'll get to the finish line eventually, and just try
and chip away at talking when you can or practicing
when you can.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
That's awesome, Okay. So pivoting back to the work that
you do at the TCC and and the gym, I
don't know if if the listeners know that there's actually
a gym in the TCC for the players, and that's
Parkers essentially your office, right, I would want.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
To be there, right, You have a desk in the
in the gym.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, are we call it the junk yard.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
It's like a blue collar and you know it's a
blue collar league, so that's nice. But yeah, it's it's
a chain link fence that surrounds our space. We have,
thankfully everything.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That you would need.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Our our organization from times of you know, Arizona to
now even Utah has bought into off ice preparation and
off ice training and that does make you know, my
life a lot easier that, you know, we don't have
to tell a player we don't have that, or having
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to work around things because we don't have the resource.
We're very fortunate that the space for what it is
is very good. Having traveled to other teams and seen
their spaces and stuff, again, like you would be surprised
of how much other spaces could be smaller or just
not as efficient. So while that space is not a
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Lamborghini in appearance, it's it's definitely a four Bronco and
appearance it actually might have Lamborghini under the hood in
terms of the engine and everything. So it's it's been nice.
A bit of an aggressive example obviously, but it's it's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I've I've liked it.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Speaking of Lamborghini's, I don't know if you follow Spitting Chicklets,
I'm assuming that you probably do. They posted today the
Michigan State Spartans their training facility. Have you seen the
videos of how high tech that facility is?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yep, So that's I think. One of the funny things
to me that you'll have is you could have a
player come to us from a Michigan State, from a
Notre Dame quint Yack. You know, we have we have
players that have come from very high level college universities
and will look like a closet compared to these schools.
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You'd think, because it's pro hockey, it's all of a
sudden everything keeps getting better and better and nicer and nicer.
But the truth of the matter is, you know that
that business of the NCAA as a whole, but much
less you know, or those schools that they can go to.
It's it's insane and it's really is impressive that you
know the their they're human performance labs. That's not just
a gym, that's that is something where they're trying to
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get down to every single percentage that they can get
out of a player, and it is really cool to see.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
One of the things that their coach talked about was
kind of keeping track of all of the guys and
their stats, and you know, who's lifting the heaviest and
who's running the fastest, and do you do stuff like
that for our guys. Is that that competition happening in
the junk yard?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, we do.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
We thankfully have uh say, three different ways that we
can kind of do that. So you might have saw
it on that video, see guys jumping up and they're
on some type of a plate.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It's called the force plate.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
We have that and that helps me actually account for
where we neurologically, are we fatigued, are we are we
ready to go? You know what kind of area are
we in? But most of our guys know what's normal
for them. So when they come in and they can
now you know, start getting on each other if I
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can jump higher than you or you can jump higher,
and it creates competition and same thing like you might
have saw on that video.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We have some other things that can help.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Track bar speed or how fast something is for a guy,
how slow it might be for a guy because again,
different guys might need different things at different times, and
so it is fun when all of a sudden we
can create a year board on a day and just say, hey,
here's one object who can pick it up the quickest
and it might be heavier, but it starts to separate,
you know, who's really strong and then can you compete
or can you push yourself to do a little more
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than you can? So from my side, anything that's competition
based actually makes my job a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So we're very fortunate to have a couple of those tools.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
When is your birthday? That was the only thing I
couldn't find online?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
May eighteenth, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Oh, that's just one of my birthdays and one of
my closest friends.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's really yeah awesome, Yeah, yeah, no, it was a
good year. Not mad about it.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Do you know what your sign is? It's not meant
to stump you. I don't know the answer and I'm
gonna google it, but I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Wouldn't that be a Taurus? You are a Taurus, honest
quality person.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Bro, I'm not either, I just don't course.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
There's only one other tourists on the team. Do you
want to take a guess at who it is later
and I'll tell you it, says a Taurus. Mail is
typically described as loyal, dependable, practical, patient, and grounded. They
love stability, quality, and the finer things in life, but
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are also stubborn when their opinions are challenged. Yes, it's
fairly accurate.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
College might come through it sometimes on a selling point.
I don't know who the closest would be on that.
I'm gonna go Peter deliberatory.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Ooh, that that is actually a good guess. But no,
Peter's and Ari's his birthdays. At the end of March,
you and Ardam are the only tourists.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Me the Arty Party. I like that.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, all right, one last question, and it's super unhinged.
I've never asked anybody this question before, mainly because I
think I know the answer to this question if I
were to ask one of the players. But if you
were kidnapped where you are right now, and you were
driven to la and onto the studio the set of
Jeopardy the Quiz Show, and you were forced to play Jeopardy,
do you think you would end up with a positive
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number or a negative number at the end of the.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Jeopardy positive but low.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Oh okay, so not winning the but winning the whole thing?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Do you think I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I actually feel like I'm pretty good at trivia. I'm
pretty like I'm decently rounded. I wouldn't say I'm a
whiz at any of that stuff, but I do enjoy
that stuff, so I'm not bothered by that. I just
don't think I'm probably taking that home. I'd like to
think I'm in the positive, but I'm probably taking home
five dollars.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Okay, honestly better than zero. I can see that. Yeah, no,
I think you would be positive.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Also, I appreciate that vote of confidence. Yeah, of course,
of course.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Okay, wait, one last question and then I'm done. I
swear to God, one last question that I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Whatever you need.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
What's your favorite twenty twenty four Team Memory.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Twenty twenty you said twenty twenty fourteen twenty four.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Twenty twenty four, between the two seasons Team Memory.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Team Memory. There you go.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Oh yeah, I heard. I heard the same thing.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I was confused, like, that's kind of you're in trouble
for Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, fun.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Team one we got stranded during main camp. Oh no,
because I would have been twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Nevermind, OK, And now I want to kind of hear
that story though.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That one I can tell you on another time if
you guys are pressed for time. But that album was
one of the crazier Team Flight things. AH favorite memory.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
We haven't had much to go so far this year,
so I'm trying to think back. I don't I don't
know if I have one. I think thanks, and I
don't mean in a bad way. There was nothing that
stood out, but I think, you know, Shave, you can
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kind of piggyback off of this. But like when you
travel like we do, and when you kind of are
going around, like there's always something that's entertaining and happening.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So I think it's.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
More of the floor for boredom is extremely high. There's
always somebody making fun of somebody, There's always something going on,
and so I think kind of just those banter moments
end up being the best because again it kind of
goes back to like we could not say this in
a regular.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We wouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
In these situations or arguments in an office setting, so
I would have to really think hard on it. But
I guess that's kind of like a blanketed, broad, boring answer.
Just like anytime that we can kind of get everybody
going or an argument going, I think those end up
being some of the best ones, just because it is
just court without any order and everybody's yelling their opinions
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or their statements.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So I'll go with something like that.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Okay, all right, no guardrails.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
No, that makes it the guard.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
As much as I do like order structure according to astrology,
I think for an argument's sake, just let the gate
open and just see what happens and deal with it
on the back end.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, that's what we do every day for this job. Well, Parker,
thanks so much for joining us again. We really appreciate it,
and uh we'll see you when we uh head for
Coachella Valley and looking forward to this next trip with
more chaos coming up for us.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Well, thanks guys for having me on. This was fun.
So glad I finally got to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Awesome, Parker thranks so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
No problem, you guys, have a good night, see you too.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
See it Roadrunners happier with Jonathan Shaffer and Kim coder Robas.
We just had the strength and performance coach Parker Poor
on the show. Kim, I never knew he was never
unhappy our before. He said this was a first for him.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Uh, I was.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I could have sworn he was on the show last year,
So uh great having him on.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
You know, It's it's great having people that the fans
don't see as much behind the scenes on the show
and like to get to see what, who's the guy
that's keeping our team in shape, you know, as much
as practice games do, but like you need the people
to give them the right nutrition and give them the
right conditioning and everything. And yeah, from what Parker was saying,
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I mean we already knew, but him actually telling us
what his day to day looks like. He's a huge
part of this team and when the Roadrunners are winning
games too, I think one of the unsung heroes is
definitely Parker Poor because he's helping the team perform enough
to win big games.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
He is definitely one of the people behind the scenes
that I know. If he had a TikTok or an
insta account where he did a day in his life,
people would be all over it because it's fascinating. The
work that he does is fascinating, and I when I
get to the arena pre game, Parker is usually one
of the very first people that I run into because
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the junkyard is right next to the Green Report. I
hang out it, and every once in a while we'll
eat together. But I love giving him, like drive my
interview questions and asking him just the most random things.
And he talks to me about the Catapult system, which
is the system that the guys that's that's in the
jerseys or in the vest that the guys told me
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about capture all of the data that the guys and
he captures all of it during the game. We've had
very extensive conversations about this stuff. So to me, it's
I think anybody who likes hockey is interested in the
work that Parker is doing for sure.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
And that's why I like, I wanted to see too,
like if I wanted to be in his position, what
what do I do to get there? And And I
meant to ask him too if he ever knew Eric Bechdel,
because Eric used to work with the Saint Louis Blues
for a bit. So I don't know what that time
I don't know what that time frame is like because
I don't know when he worked for the Blues, but
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I forgot to ask if maybe he knew him or
knew of him. Yeah, I don't know because I always
forget when. Obviously he's been here since the beginning, but
I don't remember when exactly he was with the Blues,
so I'll have to ask him that later. But yeah,
shed a big shout out to Parker Poort. He's a
huge part of this team, keeping the guys, you know,
pretty much up to shape.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And yeah, that could what was it, what'd you call it?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
The the thing that the players use when they're skating
out their catapult?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Catapult? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I always saw him with like his computer, just walking around.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, with computers and I'm like, yeah, are you
like checking your emails?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
And he kind of like showed me how it worked,
and I was like, this is cool. I Like, it's
one of those things where you go and start working
in hockey that you just have no idea from an
outside perspective of a fan of what goes on the
day today. And that's one of the things where I'm like,
that's sick, and I'm like, how do people not know
about this?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
You know?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, but I think with social media, we're
getting to know more and more. Like at World Juniors
this year, there was actually chips in the puck this year,
and the data that they were able to capture between
like who hit the puck and how fast, what's going on,
how hard they hit it and all that stuff like
that's Parker's that's his niche. He loves he loves that stuff.
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So very very excited that we finally had a chance
to get to talk to him. Plus he just got married,
which is awesome. And that part about Travis bean hit
his wedding, I just found that out today.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah, I didn't know that. That's really cool. I'm glad
Baron got to go to that too. But all right, Kim,
So this past weekend, broad Runners played the Texas Stars
Split the series. You know, we'll take the Split. Stars
are a good team this year, kind of becoming our
little rivals in the Central Division. I would say if
you wore to pick one, because those games get those
games got a little scrappy.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
We saw a couple of fights as well.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
I think the big story of the weekend Cameron Heebeg
scoring his first career hat trick and Kim Cameron Hebig
and I've been bantering on about this all week and long,
and I'm not gonna shut up about it because it's
so awesome. He's having his best season statistically yet at
this point. I did some math about it. It's gonna
be on the Tucson Rubbers road ahead that will be
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coming out or already it's out today. If you want
to go read at Tucson Rubbers do but if you
want to read more on that, If Cameron he Big
plays every single game for the Road Runs up to
this point, because he's missed five games, so we'll say
sixty seven games total. If he plays every game up
to this point, stat wise, he is in line to
score twenty four goals season high, which would be amazing
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because over twenty goals in a season is considered really
good for any player. Twenty four goals and twenty one
assists for forty five points, which would easily be his
best career. Yet he is in his fifth season. He's
in line to become the second player of a Road
Rus history and most games played and the first if
he continues to just keep playing, and we're seeing it
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in an historic season for one of the best guys
to play for the team.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Yes, absolutely, I am a big Cameron Hey, big fan.
I in the last four seasons that I've been with
the team, every time I talk to Cameron and you
and I talked about this in one of the pregames
that I ask him every summer, you know, what did
you do this summer? Because he comes back every year bigger, faster, better,
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just more agile. He's doing all the work. So to
see it pay off for him and this way is
absolutely fantastic. And I like to make fun of camera too,
because he likes to read. He's got he's a really
big book guy. And he doesn't eat out a lot
some of them. Some of them don't write, you know,
they like to meal prep, they like to stay on
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their diets. But I always joke that when Cameron Hebig
is not at the TCC on the ice, that he
is sitting at home eating boiled chicken, because he is
just that that focused that if it's not about it,
if it's not about you know, the roadrunners and getting better,
then he's reading finance books and eating just pure protein.
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That's that's the man's life. So to see him at
finally not finally, because like I said, he's been he
has been growing and you can see his develop meant
over the years, he's a poster child for this league
as far as I'm concerned. He has developed and he
continues to become bigger, better, faster.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah, and he's like he's absolutely grinded up to this point.
Started with the Bakersfield Condors, had a good rookie season,
and then came to the road Runners afterwards, and you know,
just was you know, kept signing the deals to stay
in Tucson, just you know, working away because I know
he believes that this organization is going to propel him
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to the next level and for him to come back
for a fifth year because you know, as much as
we love having our guys here, everyone wants the best
opportunity for each other, and you just every obviously you
just don't know who's going to stay, who's going to go.
You know, we saw a couple of main staple Roadrunners
leave this past sausseason, and we're happy for them because
they're all in good situations as well. But when we
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got that notification that hebec was coming for the fifth year,
it's like, let's go. You know, we got one of
our our main guys back and all of a sudden,
you know, fourteen points his last fifteen games, he's tied
for second on the team and goals, he's top five
on the team and scoring as well. It's been really
rewarding for him to just see the way that he's
been playing, because we've known how great of a player
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he is, but now the stats are starting to show
it too. And if he continues this pace, he's gonna
start becoming a problem for a lot of opponents down
our stretch.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
He is in the past, I have referred to him
as the Swiss Army knife of this team, and somehow
he has become a bigger knife, you know, like he
was just a little pocket knife, and then he's just
getting to become a bigger and bigger and more useful
tool in the drawer. But I love seeing him on
the lines. The line that he's on right now. The
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Friday game is that right. We had Friday Saturday games
this last weekend. Friday game was electric and lots of
fun to watch. Saturday game was more disheartening. Just the
gel wasn't there for the entire team. I felt like
so and going into Coachella tomorrow and then San Diego.
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It's kind of a roller coaster, right because Coachella is
playing well. San Diego. I don't want to say they're
playing poorly, but they're behind us in in the division,
they're behind us in the standings. Not having last time
we saw them recently, you know, like.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
It was it's a good game.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
It was a good game, not not not a super
intense contest. I don't want to I don't want to
be rude, but it's good. I think playing Coello, playing
Coachella on one day and then playing San Diego two
days later, it's it's gonna be They're very it's very disparate,
those those two teams. So it'll be interesting to see
the Boys pivot from from just that one game in Coachella. Right,
(42:55):
So just the one game in Coachella on the Wednesday,
and then the Friday Saturday in San Diego, and then
being away from home for so long this month and
being on the bus a lot. I think it's either
gonna be fantastic and the Boys are gonna do really
well with it, and or I think it's gonna be
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difficult and a little bit hard to deal with. But
I think it's gonna be a good thing.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be a fun trip for sure. Big
stretch coming up for the road Runners. When we come
back after this quick break, we're gonna talk about more
of the upcoming trip.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Right here, we just had strength and Performance.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Coach Parker Poor on this show talked about Cameron Heebick's
historic weekend, scoring his first hat trick of his American
Hockey League career. And now the Roadrunners continue on this
stretch away from the Tucson Arena, coming tomorrow night in
Coachella Valley at Actors Arena versus the Coachella Valley Firebirds,
and we have two games following this weekend against the
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San Diego Goals and then after that two more against
the Calgary Ringliss to conclude the trip. Kim, I think
this game tomorrowmorrow in Coachella Valley is the biggest of
the road trip because.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
What oh sorry, I had to cough. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Keep going now you're laughing while you're laughing at me.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
Oh my gosh, sorry, I get something in my throat
like and it scared me all of a sudden. I'm
so sorry you.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Scared me, all right, Sorry about that, so we have
a I think the biggest game of this of this
end of this trip called you got Me all fluster Now.
I'm so choosed right now for this game, Kim, because
it's it's one game. It's not a back to back.
Whatever happens, it's on the table because then you don't
play them again until February. And we only play the
Firebirds four times this year, so every game against them
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counts when it comes to that rivalry, you know, and
even with the standings too, you know, you want these
points against this team that you're battling in the standings with.
And I think tomorrow night's game is the biggest of
this up the rest of this trip.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
It's a it's a difficult environment too. I think it
is a really it's an intimate arena. So if I
don't know how to describe it, like when we're at
the TCC, it's so big and it's cavernous, and you
know it's there, there could be like gaps between where
people are sitting and the team, you know, getting close
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to the ice at Akrocher, it's to me, it feels
so intimate. It's tight, and it's dark in there, and
the fans are loud, and however they built that arena
makes the fans louder. And then we just we have
history with these guys. So it's even if they we
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weren't as close in the standings as we are to
them right now, I think it would still be a test,
and it would still I think, you know, the guys
are not just going to be playing a physical game.
I think it's very much a mental game when we
go into Coachella. Also.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
Yeah, and you can argue that they have the most
hostile arena in the hl's Pacific Division.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
They're top five in attendance.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
It's a Wednesday night game, but I think they're so
gonna draw about maybe eight thousand fans when you go
through on a weekend, though it's a lot more, but
it's still gonna be hostile. We went three and one
in that arena last year. We're four and four overall
in the two seasons, so not terrible again for what
that arena throws at you in a game like what
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we're about to experience. And yeah, it's just something about
the rivalry between these two teams, and though we only
played them four times, it just it makes every more
game so much more important, and especially that it's the
one off, so it's continuing on on this trip. It's
a big trip coming up for Tuson. We're battling it
away and just trying to climb up those standings.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
Yeah, and I think too again, and it's only one game, right,
It's it's a midweek game, and then it's such a
quick quick trip. I'm assuming the bus ride is happening
directly after the game on Wednesday night to San Diego
and it's yeah, and then it's a quick turnover into
into San Diego. So I honestly don't know how the
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boys mentally wrap their minds around, Okay, this day we're
doing this, and then the next day we're doing this.
It's it's a lot. It seems like it's it's a lot.
I know that last season they were actually able to
work with a coach who was able to help them
with kind of like some of the stress and anxiety,
the mental exhaustion that can come from quick turnover series
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like this. So but I know that, you know that,
I know that Stephen and slains and starts really helped
manage that. So as uh, yeah, I think that this
this road trip is going to be a big test
for the boys, kind of like Texas was.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
That was Texas was.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
It was a good test, and I get some footing
after Texas. The boys had Monday off and then now
looking straight into straight into the mouth of the Firebirds,
so to speak.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Yeah, that's that's really good. And yeah, as much as
it's it's a test, we're excited for it. As Parker
said earlier, we look forward to the challenges and we're
gonna take them head on.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Camp. Thanks for joining me again for this show. Great show.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Thanks to Parker Port for joining us as well for
our first segment. If you want to listen to the
podcast version of this, go to Tucson roadns dot com
slash happy Er. We will see you tomorrow night in
Coachellabette Valley. This has been Roadands Happier see tomorrow, folks.
Have a good rest of your night.
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