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Series preview: Sam Honzek joins the Wranglers for their first trip to Henderson this season

Photo credit: Angela Burger/Calgary Wranglers

By Paige Siewert

Nov 12, 2026, 11:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 12, 2026, 01:00 EST

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The Calgary Wranglers and Henderson Silver Knights have managed to avoid each other for the first month and a bit of the season but it’s now time for them to face off. Last year, Henderson had a 3-1-0-0 edge in the season series and this year, the Wranglers are just one spot ahead of them in the standings at this point in the year. The Vegas affiliate has only lost one game in their last five and the Wranglers have gone 3-2-0-0 in their last five. Calgary will be looking to take a lead in this season series and finish the three game week with a winning record.

Last game’s lines

Calgary

Dryden Hunt – Ben Jones – Alex Nylander

Andrew Basha – Rory Kerins – Luke Philp

Sam Morton – Tyson Gross – Will Dineen

Nikita Pavlychev – Carter Wilkie

Axel Hurtig – Mike Benning

Abram Wiebe – Hunter Brzustewicz

Jake Livingstone – Kyle Walker

Tyson Feist

Owen Say

Kirill Zarubin

Henderson

Forwards – Mathieu Cataford, Alexander Holtz, Jakub Demek, Alex Weiermair, Matyas Sapovaliv, Tanner Laczynski, Tuomas Uronen, Jordan Gustafson, Jonas Rondbjerg, Joe Fleming, Jackson Hallum, Ben Hemmerling, Mitch McLain, Trent Swick, Kai Uchacz, Riley McKay, Sloan Stanick

Defencemen – Antti Tuomisto, Ville Heinola, Brandon Hickey, Lukas Cormier, Adam Ginning, Villain Kmec, Lucas Johansen, Jeremy Davies, Jaycob Megna

Goaltenders – Carl Lindbom, Cameron Whitehead

Leaders

Calgary

Ben Jones – 12GP, 10G, 5A

Alex Nylander – 15GP, 4G, 8A

Dryden Hunt – 15GP, 2G, 10A

Henderson

Alexander Holtz – 10GP, 6G, 6A

Matyas Sapovaliv – 12GP, 4G, 5A

Lukas Cormier – 7GP, 3G, 5A

Notes and expectations

The Wranglers were assigned an assumed temporary reinforcement since their last game on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Sam Honzek was assigned to the AHL. This is potentially meant to be somewhat of a conditioning loan but Honzek is still in his entry level contract (and so he’s waiver exempt) and could remain with the Wranglers longer if that’s what the team chooses. He’ll likely play high in the lineup and is going to be wanting to streamline his path back to the NHL so you’d expect his play to stand out in this upcoming series.

For now, everything else is the same. William Stromgren remains up with the Flames, even with Brennan Othmann back and the Wranglers are closing out this road series with three goaltenders. It was Owen Say to start and Kirill Zarubin for backup last game. With Arsenii Sergeev getting pulled in the first period in his start, I’d expect him to start one of the games this weekend with Zarubin backing up at least for the first game to give Say the rest.

It’ll be a pair of later games, with this series starting on Thursday at 9:00 p.m. ABT then game two will be on Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. ABT. Both games will be on Wranglers radio on their website and social media and streamed for a fee on AHLtv on Flo Hockey. Daily Faceoff Calgary contributors, Ryan Pike and I will have updates on X (formerly Twitter).

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