Tri-City Herald: Hughesman, Wilgosh help Ams hang banners
By Annie Fowler | Tri-City Herald
KENNEWICK — Work ethic. Team work. Accountability on and off the ice.
Mason Wilgosh and Adam Hughesman learned from Day One as a Tri-City American that those qualities will help you be a better person, a better hockey player and help your team succeed.
“Give (Don Nachbaur) credit for that,” Wilgosh said of his former coach. “It all starts with work ethic. The team has to have it, and Donnie instilled that in us. I learned that at 16. It sticks with you. You don’t forget it — you don’t want to forget it.”
Wilgosh and Hughesman, both forwards, are the last two players on the Tri-City roster that helped the franchise win its first banners in 2008 — the U.S. Division title and the Scotty Munroe for the best record in the Western Hockey League.
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