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Recap: Martin Frk’s hat trick and William Stromgren’s three point night lead Wranglers to 6-4 win
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Photo credit: David Moll/Calgary Wranglers
Paige Siewert
Nov 16, 2025, 12:00 ESTUpdated: Nov 16, 2025, 20:05 EST
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A solid Calgary Wranglers debut for Justin Kirkland, a three point game from William Stromgren and a historical night for Martin Frk led to a high scoring game for Calgary against the Henderson Silver Knights. They controlled the lead for the majority of the game and followed up their homestand closing win earlier this week with another win to kick off their 10 game road trip. The final score in Henderson was 6-4.

Lineup notes

Justin Kirkland joined the team to kick off this road trip after clearing waivers earlier this week. He took a spot on the top line centring Dryden Hunt and Matvei Gridin. The centre he bumped out from last game was David Silye. 

Wranglers lines

Dryden Hunt – Justin Kirkland – Matvei Gridin
William Stromgren – Clark Bishop – Martin Frk
Parker Bell – Sam Morton – Aydar Suniev
Alex Gallant – Carter King – Andrew Basha
Daniil Miromanov – Artem Grushnikov
Nick Cicek – Hunter Brzustewicz
Etienne Morin – Simon Mack
Ivan Prosvetov

Game at a glance

The Wranglers went back to Ivan Prosvetov to start this series against the Silver Knights. On Henderson’s side, Jesper Vikman got the start between the pipes. The Wranglers scored their fastest opening goal of the season when Martin Frk beat Vikman on the first shot of the game just 18 seconds in. His shot deflected off two Henderson players and went past their netminder. Hunter Brzustewicz and William Stromgren picked up the assists.
The Wranglers built off this start and had the early edge in shots and goals through the first half of the opening frame. At 10:12, the first penalty of the game went against the Wranglers when William Stromgren was called for hooking. Just over a minute into this home team power play, the Silver Knights evened up the score with a goal from Raphael Lavoie at 11:13.
By 11:25, the Wranglers were in the box again when Alex Gallant was called for delay of game. This penalty kill was cut short by a call against the Silver Knights and Calgary regained the lead on the power play off a deflection shot from Justin Kirkland. 
The Silver Knights went to the box again just over a minute later, but that didn’t turn into any other special teams markers before the period came to a close. At the end of 20 minutes, Calgary had a 2-1 lead and a 10-9 edge in shots. 
Early into the second period, Artem Grushnikov was called for tripping and just five seconds into this penalty kill, Henderson scored off a slap shot from Dylan Coghlan. This goal came at 1:22. Calgary was in the box again shortly after, when Sam Morton was called for hooking at 2:27. They managed to barely kill this penalty off, in a very scrambled penalty kill. However, the Silver Knights still used this momentum to earn their first lead of the game. 
At 5:57, Jonas Rondbjerg scored on Prosvetov off a shot that deflected back on his blocker. Calgary let this lead last all of 57 seconds before William Stromgren scored his first goal of the season off a hard low wrist shot at 6:54. This marker was assisted by Simon Mack.
The next goal wasn’t far behind when Martin Frk scored his second of the night off a shot off the far post at 10:22. This was a milestone goal for Frk, being his 200th AHL goal. This goal was unassisted and put the Wranglers up 4-3. 
At 15:34, the Wranglers scored once again with an extremely sharp angled shot from Matvei Gridin that deflected off the Henderson netminder and in. This was Gridin’s first goal in five games and it was assisted by Dryden Hunt.
With just over a minute and a half left in the period, the Silver Knights got back within one with a goal from Tuomas Uronen that beat Prosvetov glove side. By the end of the second period, the Wranglers were up 5-4 and Henderson led in shots through the middle frame 16-10. 
The scoring slowed way down in the third after a very eventful second period. These teams exchanged penalties and rushes of opportunities in the offensive zone and time started to run out for a potential home team comeback. Henderson pulled Jesper Vikman at 17:35 and at 19:33, Martin Frk completed his sixth career hat trick with an empty net goal.
That pretty well wrapped up this game and the Wranglers won 6-4. Shots finished 34-28 in favour of Henderson. Two Wranglers ended up on the three stars with Martin Frk getting the first for his three goal and four point night and William Stromgren for the second star for his three point night. 

Scoring stat summary

William Stromgren – 1G, 2A
Dryden Hunt – 2A
Matvei Gridin – 1G
Justin Kirkland – 1G
Martin Frk – 3G, 1A
Simon Mack – 1A
Hunter Brzustewicz – 1A

Next up

It’s possible the Wranglers see Carter Hart in net next game as he was announced as a conditioning loan from the Las Vegas Golden Knights Saturday morning and backed up Jesper Vikman for this game. These two teams meet again before the week comes to an end with a Sunday evening match up coming up next. Their rematch goes at 6:00 p.m. MT as Calgary looks for the sweep and their third straight win. 

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