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Wranglers game day: Calgary looks to take lead in season series against Bakersfield

Photo credit: Photo Credit: David Moll/Calgary Wranglers

By Paige Siewert

Oct 17, 2026, 14:00 EDTUpdated: Oct 17, 2026, 20:55 EDT

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The Calgary Wranglers play their third game of the week on the road with a stop in Bakersfield to face the Condors. They’re facing a much fresher team as the Condors haven’t played since their series in Calgary last weekend. The Wranglers on the other hand, are on a back to back after falling 5-4 to the San Jose Barracuda last night.

Last game’s lines

Calgary

Connor Zary – Ben Jones – Alex Nylander

Dryden Hunt – Rory Kerins – Luke Philp

Sam Morton – Tyson Gross – William Stromgren

Alex Gallant – Carter Wilkie – Andrew Basha

Jake Livingstone – Hunter Brzustewicz

Axel Hurtig – Brayden Pachal

Abram Wiebe – Mike Benning

Arsenii Sergeev

Bakersfield

Aku Raty – Viljami Marjala – Quinn Hutson

Rhett Pitlick – Tucker Robertson – Seth Griffith

Edwards Tralmaks – Simon Tassy – Daniel D’Amato

Connor Clattenburg – William Nicholl – Ethan Keppen

Damien Carfagna – Tomas Cibulka

Riley Stillman – Josh Brown

Samuel Sjolund – Zach Bookman

Connor Ungar

Matt Tomkins

Leaders

Calgary

Ben Jones – 6GP 6G, 2A

Alex Nylander – 6GP, 1G, 5A

William Stromgren – 6GP, 1G, 5A

Bakersfield

Quinn Hutson – 4GP, 5G, 1A

Aku Raty – 4GP 2G, 2A

Daneil D’Amato – 4GP, 2G, 1A

Notes and expectations

In their last series in Calgary, the Wranglers and Condors split and the Condors were the ones to deal them their first loss of the season with a 5-4 final score on Sun., Oct. 11. Both games were one goal decisions and in the loss, there are probably a few goals Zarubin would’ve liked back. Based on the fact that Sergeev has started both games this week so far and the latest was just last night, it appears Zarubin will get another chance against a team that had his number for a few goals. The Condors are going to be buzzing too, as this is their home opener and their games are usually pretty well attended.

The Wranglers are going to want to shut down Bakersfield’s top scorer, Quinn Hutson, in this series. Hutson had three goals in the last series against Calgary and has yet to go a game this season without putting up a goal. Hutson was targeting low glove side on the Wranglers and surely this will be a spot both sides will be watching for this game.

On the Wranglers side, their top player to watch is Ben Jones. Jones is off to a scorching hot start to the year with eight points in six games and an active four game goal streak going into this matchup in Bakersfield. He’s scored six goals in the last four games and had a two goal night in San Jose on Friday. Jones also scored three goals in the last two games the Wranglers played against the Condors.

We’ll see which team takes the lead in the season series and for bragging rights as a rival team, with their parent clubs being the Flames and Oilers. This game has a start time of 8:10 p.m. MT and streaming will be available on AHLtv on Flo Hockey and radio coverage on Wranglers Radio via their website and social media platforms. Daily Faceoff Calgary contributors, Ryan Pike and I will have updates on X (formerly Twitter).

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