The Calgary Wranglers played their third game of the week on Saturday in a road match-up against the Bakersfield Condors. It was a Star Wars themed night for the Edmonton Oilers affiliate, and this game was the last meeting between these two this season. The Condors had the first and only goal early in the second period and despite seven chances on the power play, the Wranglers could not answer back. They were shutout in a 1-0 decision.

Lineup notes

The team provided an injury update prior to puck drop. Rory Kerins remains on a week-to-week status, and Lucas Ciona is still out day-to-day. Both of these players are out with lower body injuries. Added to the list was Nick Cicek. Cicek is out day-to-day with an upper body injury. Martin Frk didn’t travel either as his wife is due to deliver a baby any day. These changes brought Carter Wilkie back into the lineup and Chase Pauls made his Wranglers debut after being called up from Rapid City on Friday. Pauls was wearing number four for Calgary.

Wranglers lines

Dryden Hunt – Justin Kirkland – William Stromgren

Brennan Othmann – Sam Morton – Aydar Suniev

Carter King – Clark Bishop – David Silye

Alex Gallant – Carter Wilkie – Parker Bell

Turner Ottenbreit – Daniil Miromanov

Artem Grushnikov – Gavin White

Etienne Morin – Chase Pauls

Arsenii Sergeev

Game at a glance

The goaltending match-up for this game consisted of Arsenii Sergeev for the Wranglers and Calvin Pickard for the Condors. This game started with an early offsetting penalty against Quinn Hutson for roughing and Dryden Hunt for holding the stick just 1:27 into this game. 27 seconds into this four on four, Sam Morton was called for an illegal check to the head and Calgary was penalty killing on the four on three.

The Condors put up the first shots of the game and a 9:05, the home team was called for a high sticking double minor. The Wranglers ended up getting a full five on three 1:10 later, when Bakersfield was called for delay of game as well. Calgary registered four shots on this opportunity but weren’t able to capitalize.

Once things got back to even strength, these two teams exchanged chances then at the end of the period, it was still a scoreless game. Calgary outshot Bakersfield 9-6 through the opening frame. There was a bit of a scrum to start the second period and this resulted in coincidental roughing calls against Turner Ottenbreit and Connor Clattenburg. On this four on four, the Condors scored first with a pass up from the point that Atro Leppannen settled and shot past Sergeev. This goal came at 1:28.

Around the six minute mark, Parker Bell had the best chance for Calgary to answer back with a shot that rang off the post. He caught Pickard a bit out of position and had quite a bit of space to work with. The Wranglers had another chance to try and even things up at 12:50, when the Condors were called for cross-checking. Calgary didn’t score on this chance but got another power play chance before the end of the period when Quinn Hutson was called for slashing at 17:56.

Despite these chances, Calgary was only able to put up three shots in the middle frame and was trailing 1-0 at the end of 40 minutes. Bakersfield had 10 shots in the second. This game kept things tight into the third period and Calgary was getting the early chances to try and get on the board and even the scoring. Around the seven minute mark, the Wranglers had a giveaway and the initial shot beat Sergeev off the crossbar, but he was able to make a sprawling save to keep the game within one.

Paige Siewert

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Huge save here by Arsenii Sergeev after the turnover to keep it a one goal game.

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4:21 AM · Mar 22, 2026

Next up

The Wranglers play a back to back but swap cities for Sunday’s game. They’ll commute to San Diego to face the Gulls on Sunday. Puck drop is at 6:00 p.m. MT.