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Series Preview: The Wranglers return to the road for first meeting against the Eagles

Photo credit: Photo Credit: David Moll/Calgary Wranglers

By Paige Siewert

Nov 6, 2026, 09:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 6, 2026, 00:30 EST

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The Calgary Wranglers are headed south to start another lengthy road trip of five games. It starts this weekend against the Colorado Eagles for a back to back on Friday and Saturday. Both dropped their last games and are looking to get back in the win column. The Eagles sit above the Wranglers in the standings as well, sitting at third and Calgary sitting at fifth. A sweep this weekend for the Flames’ affiliate would put them ahead of Colorado once again.

Last game’s lines

Calgary

Dryden Hunt – Tyson Gross – Rory Kerins

Alex Nylander – Ben Jones – Luke Philp

Sam Morton – Carter Wilkie – Andrew Basha

Nikita Pavlychev – Will Dineen

Abram Wiebe – Hunter Brzustewicz

Axel Hurtig – Mike Benning

Jake Livingstone – Brayden Pachal

Kent Anderson

Kirill Zarubin (starter)

Owen Say (backup)

Colorado

Adam Beckman – Gavin Brindley – Tristen Nielsen

Jake Wise – Jayson Megna – Taylor Makar

Maros Jedlicka – Nikita Prishchepov – Matt Dimarsico

Yanick Turcotte – Cooper Gay

Alex Gagne – Keaton Middleton

Christian Wolanin – Wyatt Aamodt

Domenick Fensore – Seam Behrens

Gustav Stjernberg

Trent Miner

Ilya Nabokov

Leaders

Calgary

Ben Jones – 9GP, 8G, 3A

William Stromgren – 11GP, 3G, 8A (inactive on NHL call-up)

Dryden Hunt – 12GP, 1G, 10A

Colorado

Gavin Brindley – 9GP, 3G, 7A

Tristen Nielsen – 12GP, 3G, 7A

Domenick Fensore – 12GP, 9A

Notes and expectations

The Wranglers last played on Halloween last Saturday and split that weekend series against the Laval Rocket. The Eagles just played a mid-week game on Wednesday against Coachella Valley and fell 2-1. Both the Eagles and Wranglers skated with 11 forwards and seven defencemen in their last games so we will see if that carries into this weekend at all.

Since the Wranglers’ last game, they’ve had a couple of roster moves. Most recently was the return of Arsenii Sergeev on Thursday. He was assigned back to the Wranglers just in time to join the team on the road and is expected to start one of these games. The Wranglers also did a swap with their ECHL team. They sent Alex Campbell back down and recalled forward Ryan Hofer instead. Campbell played in two games and if Hofer slots into the lineup this weekend, he will be wearing number 25. William Stromgren remains up with the Flames and put up his first NHL goal on Monday’s game against the San Jose Sharks that ended up being the game-winner.

The Eagles have already announced that their Saturday night game is a sellout so there will be quite an opposing crowd to hype up their home team. The Eagles fanbase is usually a pretty loud one so the Wranglers are likely already expecting a pretty lively building. These two have not faced each other yet this year but the Eagles had the edge on the season series last year, going 5-2-1-0 against the Wranglers.

This series kicks off on Friday for an 8:05 p.m. ABT start time and continues into Saturday for an hour earlier puck drop of 7:05 p.m. ABT. Both games will be available on the Wranglers radio broadcast on the team’s website and social media and streamed for a fee on AHLtv on Flo Hockey. Daily Faceoff contributors, Ryan Pike and I will have updates on X (formerly Twitter).

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