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Wranglers game day: A stop in Bakersfield to defend season series lead

Photo credit: Photo Credit: Angela Burger/Calgary Wranglers

By Paige Siewert

Nov 10, 2026, 13:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 10, 2026, 00:13 EST

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The Calgary Wranglers are in the middle of a five game road trip and make a stop in Bakersfield to face the Edmonton Oilers’ affiliate, the Condors. They’ve seen each other three times this year so far and Calgary holds the advantage on the season series with a 2-1-0-0 record against them. All their games have been within one goal and Calgary has still yet to take a game out of regulation this season. It wouldn’t be surprising if the first instance of free hockey happened against an opponent like this, however.

Last game’s lines

Calgary

Sam Morton – Rory Kerins – Luke Philp

Dryden Hunt – Ben Jones – Alex Nylander

Andrew Basha – Tyson Gross – Carter Wilkie

Alex Gallant – Nikita Pavlychev – Will Dineen

Abram Wiebe – Hunter Brzustewicz

Axel Hurtig – Mike Benning

Kyle Walker – Jake Livingstone

Arsenii Sergeev (starter)

Kirill Zarubin (back-up)

Bakersfield

Aku Raty – Viljammi Marjala – Quinn Hutson

Daniel D’Amato – Josh Samanski – Seth Griffith

Eduards Tralmaks – Tucker Robertson – Rhett Pitlick

Ethan Keppen – William Nicholl – Simon Tassy

Riley Stillman – Josh Brown

Tomas Cibulka – John Gormley

Samuel Sjolund – Zach Bookman

Nathaniel Day

Connor Ungar

Leaders

Calgary

Ben Jones – 11GP, 9G, 5A

Dryden Hunt – 14GP, 2G, 10A

Alex Nylander – 14GP, 4G, 7A

Bakersfield

Aku Raty – 9GP, 6G, 3A

Quinn Hutson – 11GP, 5G, 3A

Tucker Robertson – 11GP, 3G, 4A

Notes and expectations

For this road trip, and due to the timing of Arsenii Sergeev being assigned back to the Wranglers, the AHL squad has been carrying three goaltenders. Owen Say started in Calgary’s 2-1 win over Colorado last Friday and Sergeev started Saturday’s game against the same opponent. Sergeev was only able to go about 12 minutes into Saturday’s game, then was pulled after letting in three goals in 11 shots. Kirill Zarubin ended up going the rest of the distance in that game.

That makes the next starter a bit of an up in the air decision. Do you give Sergeev a redemption game right after? Or do you go back to Say, who’s had a few days off? With three games on the week and an extra guy around, it doesn’t seem to make sense to start Kirill Zarubin when you have the extra body. Calgary plays Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this week, so giving them each a start, then deciding if you send a guy down to the ECHL and who that ends up being. The one move they did make with the ECHL on Monday was swapping out Kent Anderson for Tyson Feist. This gets some more games in for Anderson and a look at a new d-man.

On the back end, Brayden Pachal was called up ahead of the Flames’ game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday. He did not skate in the Wranglers game on Saturday and was announced as a transaction on Sunday. He comes up following the news that Kevin Bahl is done for the season due to a ruptured Achilles. The Wranglers might need to swap out a forward too, as Nikita Pavlychev took a puck to the face towards the end of last game. They are still carrying Ryan Hofer as an extra so he could always slot in if Pavlychev needs some time out of game play.

This game gets going at a bit of an unconventional time with an 8:40 ABT puck drop. Streaming options are available for a fee on AHLtv on Flo Hockey and the team has radio broadcasts on their website and social media. Daily Faceoff contributors Ryan Pike and I will have updates on X (formerly Twitter).

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