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Recap: Wranglers fall to the Moose in first game back from the All-Star Break
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Photo credit: Jonathan Kozub/Manitoba Moose
Paige Siewert
Feb 15, 2026, 10:00 ESTUpdated: Feb 15, 2026, 00:38 EST
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The Calgary Wranglers spent their Valentine’s Day afternoon in Winnipeg to face the Manitoba Moose. The Moose are in the Central Division and don’t face the Wranglers that often so this gives both of them a fresh opponent coming out of the All-Star break. Calgary ended up working from behind this game after giving up three goals in the first period. They couldn’t generate enough to get back into it and ended up falling 5-1.

Lineup notes

The biggest missing piece for this game was Dryden Hunt. Hunt left Calgary’s last game temporarily after what looked like some discomfort after the line brawl and he was able to return to that game. It seems what was bothering him during that game may be enough to keep him out of game action but that hasn’t been confirmed by an injury update from the team just yet. This change brought Carter Wilkie back into the lineup. The defensive pairings remained the same from last game and the forwards were shuffled up again. 

Wranglers lines

William Stromgren – Justin Kirkland – Matvei Gridin
Rory Kerins – Sam Morton – Aydar Suniev
Carter King – Clark Bishop – Martin Frk
Lucas Ciona – Carter Wilkie – Parker Bell
Nick Cicek – Daniil Miromanov
Turner Ottenbreit – Hunter Brzustewicz
Artem Grushnikov – Gavin White
Ivan Prosvetov

Game at a glance

The goaltending match-up for this game was Ivan Prosvetov on Calgary’s end and Thomas Milic on Manitoba’s end. They started things on the right foot, putting on some early pressure in the offensive zone. It would end up being the Moose who struck first with a goal from Samuel Fagemo on just the second shot for the home team at 4:14. 
A couple of minutes after this goal, Hunter Brzustewicz was called for the first penalty of the game. He was tagged for interference at 6:10. Manitoba built some more momentum off this chance but Calgary managed to kill off the penalty. At 13:56, the Moose added another goal to their lead after winning the offensive zone face-off, going for the shot and Danny Zhilkin buried the rebound. 
The Wranglers got a few shots off after this goal but could not add a tally on their end of the scoreboard. At 19:17, a delayed penalty call was going against Martin Frk and Brayden Yager came up on the rush and beat Prosvetov on a one-timer. At the end of the first, Calgary was down 3-0 and narrowly trailing 10-9 in shots. 
The Wranglers started the second period with a good jump despite the score. Aydar Suniev had one of the best chances of the game but the Moose would add another to their lead right after at 9:49. Samuel Fagemo scored his second of the game with a deke move that ended with him flipping a backhand shot over Prosvetov. 
At 14:22, Turner Ottenbreit was called for tripping and the Wranglers were penalty killing for the second time this game. There was some relief about halfway through when Walker Duehr was called for interference. The Wranglers finished up the four-on-four then had a modified power play of their own. Neither team did any damage on their special teams scenarios. 
At 17:21, another penalty went against the Wranglers when Matvei Gridin was called for tripping. Calgary killed this one off as well and that pretty well wrapped up the period. At the end of 40 minutes of play, the Wranglers were down 4-0 and were out-shot 9-8 in the middle frame. 
The Wranglers finally got one on the board early in the third. They won the faceoff in their defensive zone, then Artem Grushnikov tried to clear it, but his clearing attempt was blocked. Justin Kirkland got the puck back and up to William Stromgren. Stromgren came up on the rush and set up Martin Frk for a nice wrist shot goal. This came at 2:48.
At 4:12, Calgary had a chance to build off this goal when the Moose were called for high-sticking. At 6:05, they gave up a rush the other way to Walker Duehr and he scored a bar down goal on the shorthanded chance. This put the Moose up 5-1 and deflated the Wranglers once again. 
Manitoba continued to step on the gas after their fifth goal and at 17:06, the Wranglers pulled Prosvetov for the extra attacker. Two seconds later, the Moose were called on a penalty for cross-checking. Ivan Prosvetov came back on the ice with the man advantage situation and no other shots were put up by either side by the end of regulation. The Wranglers fell 5-1 and shots finished 28-24 for the Moose. 

Scoring stat summary

William Stromgren – 1A
Justin Kirkland – 1A
Martin Frk – 1G

Next up

The Wranglers get a day between their next game and will play their re-match against the Moose on Family Day Monday. This game will also be a matinee game with a 1:00 p.m. MT puck drop.

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