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Wranglers Recap: Team effort pulls together shootout victory over Abbotsford
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Paige Siewert
Oct 14, 2024, 12:00 EDTUpdated: Oct 23, 2024, 18:43 EDT
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The Calgary Wranglers got their first game jitters out on Friday and settled in on Sunday for an afternoon rematch with the Abbotsford Canucks. As a collective, they came to the rink with more confidence for this game and made some quick adjustments from their last game just a couple of nights prior. This was another close game, but thanks to a great team effort and some individual standout performances, the Wranglers picked up a 4-3 shootout win.

Wranglers lines

Jakob Pelletier – Rory Kerins – Dryden Hunt
William Stromgren – Sam Morton – Martin Frk
Lucas Ciona – Clark Bishop – Walker Duehr
Ilya Nikolaev – Jaden Lipinski
Hunter Brzustewicz – Ilya Solovyov
Jeremie Poirier – Jarred Tinordi
Artem Grushnikov – Yan Kuznetsov
Jonathan Aspirot (Rotating through pairings)
Devin Cooley

Game at a glance

The Wranglers only made one lineup change going into the back end of this series. Parker Bell was out and Jonathan Aspirot was in. With Aspirot in the lineup, Calgary was skating 11 forwards and seven defencemen with Jakob Pelletier, Ilya Solovyov and Walker Duehr picking up some of the slack in the extra rotations.
The Wranglers rolled with Devin Cooley for his second straight start. On the other end, the Canucks went with a different face in net by opting to start Jiri Patera. Patera would get challenged first when Dryden Hunt ripped a shot from the slot through the Abbotsford netminder. This was just the first shot and the first shift of the game. Jakob Pelletier and Rory Kerins assisted on this opening tally.
About 30 seconds later, the Wranglers were on the penalty kill and completed the kill without any damage done. The Canucks went on a bit of a run of shots then took their first penalty of the game at 11:55. Just a couple of seconds before the penalty was set to expire, Dino Kambeitz sprung himself on a breakaway and beat Cooley at 13:52. His shorthanded goal was unassisted.
The rest of the period was pretty locked in with a penalty here and there and some chances for both sides. By the end of the first 20 minutes, the Wranglers and Canucks were tied 1-1. In the second period, the Canucks were lighting up Devin Cooley. He faced a run of 10 shots in the first five minutes of the period and turned them all away. He was seeing the puck very well and holding himself with noticeably more confidence this game.
There was a play that was reviewed after the next stoppage for a possible goal. Ilya Solovyov put up the block in front of the net and Cooley blocked the next shot with his body and it deflected off the post. After a lengthy review, it was ruled no goal.
The Wranglers started to push back more after this stretch of chances for the Canucks but couldn’t find the back of the net. Walker Duehr had a couple of chances and his line continued to look dominating on the ice.
At 14:40 however, Carsen Twarynski took a slap shot from the blue line and it deflected off a Wranglers player and in to make it a 2-1 game for the visitors. Nate Smith and Erik Brannstrom assisted.
Shortly after, the Wranglers were on the power play and got a couple of looks, but nothing that brought them an equalizer. At the end of 40 minutes of play, the Wranglers trailed the Canucks 2-1. In the third, the Wranglers had another early period goal with a great effort from Clark Bishop to set up Walker Duehr for the equalizer.
Jonathan Aspirot also picked up an assist on this goal and all three players put up their first points of the season. They continued to push for the next goal and made it a little tougher on themselves when Jakob Pelletier got whistled for hooking. In the last eight seconds of his penalty, Jarred Tinordi was called for tripping. The Canucks used this opportunity to take a timeout.
The Wranglers successfully killed off the rest of Pelletier’s penalty and got a shorthanded opportunity the other way after Solovyov blocked a pass and sprung Walker Duehr and Dryden Hunt for a one-timer set up. They weren’t able to score on this opportunity but unfortunately, the Canucks took the puck the other way and beat Cooley on a one-timer of their own. This goal was scored by Linus Karlsson and assisted by Tristen Nielsen and Erik Brannstrom at 9:10.
There continued to be a push by both sides and when something finally gave, it was in Calgary’s favour. Walker Duehr made a smart read beside the goal and set up Lucas Ciona for his first goal of the season. Yan Kuznetsov also picked up the assist on this tying goal at 14:12.
The Wranglers looked to build off the momentum of that goal and got on a power play a couple of minutes later. Unfortunately, it was cut short by a call of their own. Both penalties expired and the rest of regulation played out without any scoring changes. The third ended in a 3-3 game with shots at 42-22 favouring Abbotsford.
In overtime, the Wranglers had the majority of the possession time, but Cooley kept them in it when the puck moved to his end of the ice. The Wranglers ended up with a power play in the last 90 seconds of the frame but didn’t end up scoring by the end of five minutes.
They went to a shootout and William Stromgren came out to shoot for Calgary first. He had a highlight-worthy goal that did get a second look at by the officials but it stood.
Cooley stopped the first Canucks shooter then Jeremie Poirier went in for his shootout attempt and also scored on his.
Devin Cooley stopped the other Canucks shooter and the Wranglers picked up the 4-3 win. Shots finished at 48 with Cooley stopping 45 of them and the Wranglers put up 29. The Wranglers netminder said after the game he was feeling better this game and he said:
It’s so nice when you see a lot of shots. I saw Wolfy (Dustin Wolf) play last night and he played unreal so I was pretty inspired by his performance. I was like man, Wolfy is killing it so I’m going to go and kill it today.”

Scoring stat summary

Rory Kerins – 1A
Dryden Hunt – 1G
Lucas Ciona – 1G
Clark Bishop – 1A
Jakob Pelletier – 1A
Walker Duehr – 1G, 1A
Yan Kuznetsov – 1A
Jonathan Aspirot – 1A

Next up

Now that this series has wrapped up, the Wranglers head on their first road trip of the season next week down to California. They’ll start off by facing the Coachella Valley Firebirds on Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. MT before they head to Henderson to face the Silver Knights on the weekend.

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