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Wranglers game day: A game stop against the Gulls
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Photo credit: David Moll/Calgary Wranglers
Paige Siewert
Jan 18, 2025, 10:00 ESTUpdated: Jan 17, 2025, 23:11 EST
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The Calgary Wranglers are out of town for the weekend to try and continue their winning week. After dropping three straight in the games after the Christmas break, they bounced back to their regular selves this week and earned a sweep over the Tucson Roadrunners. They have two more opponents to face before the end of the week starting with the San Diego Gulls on Saturday.

Projected lines

Calgary
William Stromgren – Sam Morton – Dryden Hunt
Sam Honzek – Clark Bishop – Martin Frk 
Lucas Ciona – David Silye – Adam Klapka
Parker Bell – Trevor Janicke 
Yan Kuznetsov – Hunter Brzustewicz
Ilya Solovyov – Artem Grushnikov 
Jarred Tinordi – Jeremie Poirier
Jonathan Aspirot 
Waltteri Ignatjew 
Connor Murphy
San Diego
Pavol Regenda – Ryan Carpenter – Coulson Pitre
Sasha Pastujov – Jan Mysak – Carson Meyer
Nico Myatovic – Nathan Gaucher – Judd Caulfield 
Michal Stinil – Josh Lopina – Travis Howe
Dillon Heatherington – Tristan Luneau 
Tyson Hinds – Roland McKeown 
Rodwin Dionicio – Noah Warren 
Oscar Dansk 
Vyacheslav Buteyets

Leaders

Calgary
Dryden Hunt – 36GP, 11G, 24A
Rory Kerins – 34GP, 21G, 13A (Inactive on NHL call-up)
Clark Bishop – 15G, 15A
San Diego
Sam Colangelo – 24GP, 13G, 9A (Inactive on NHL call-up)
Yegor Sidorov – 32GP, 10G, 11A
Sasha Pastujov – 22GP, 9G, 12A

Notes and expectations

The biggest bit of news coming out since the Wranglers last played is a suspension to alternate captain Alex Gallant. Gallant hopped off the bench in Wednesday’s game against the Tucson Roadrunners to fight a player who took down William Stromgren against the boards. Here’s a look at that play. 
His suspension will last six games and take him out of the lineup for the rest of the month. Parker Bell was the odd man out last game when the coaching staff went with an extra defender so he will likely slide in and join Trevor Janicke on the fourth line. Jonathan Aspirot was also regularly rotating on this line last game. It wouldn’t be the first time Aspirot played a role like this as he played a handful of games as a winger last season when he was called upon.  
On the other end of the ice are the Gulls, who were one of the five California-based teams that did a charitable event towards the Los Angeles wildfires this week. They collected donations in their last game against the Iowa Wild on Wednesday night and are still collecting donations through their foundation until after this game. They did not win their last game but this initiative is giving them a way to win off the ice.
Calgary and San Diego have only seen each other three times this season and in each of those games, the Wranglers have picked up the victory. Their last meeting was all the way back in November when Calgary took a 4-3 win on the 20th. Both have a 2-3-0-0 record in their last five games going into this meeting. 
These two teams play just one game against each other before Calgary heads to Ontario to play the Reign on Sunday. This game between the Gulls and Wranglers gets going at 7:00 p.m. MT. Video streams are available on Flo Hockey for a fee and multiple FlamesNation contributors will have updates on X (formerly Twitter).

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