After a four game week to close off October last week, the Calgary Wranglers started a two game series this week against the San Jose Barracuda on Thursday night. Going into this game, they had won the last give games in a row and earned point in eight straight games. With three days between their last game action, they were fresh and ready to go for this one.

Lineup notes

The expected absence from this game was Yan Kuznetsov. He was called up to the Flames and played in their game on Wednesday. Prior to puck drop, the Wranglers announced a couple of swaps between the AHL and ECHL. They recalled Simon Mack from the Rapid City Rush and sent down Etienne Morin. Otherwise, changes from the last game included David Silye and Artem Grushnikov slotting back in and Parker Bell slotting out.

Wranglers lines

Dryden Hunt – Rory Kerins – William Stromgren

Andrew Basha – Sam Morton – Matvei Gridin

Aydar Suniev – Clark Bishop – Martin Frk

Lucas Ciona – Carter King – David Silye

Artem Grushnikov – Daniil Miromanov

Turner Ottenbreit – Jeremie Poirier

Nick Cicek – Hunter Brzustewicz

Ivan Prosvetov

Owen Say (backup)

Game at a glance

Ivan Prosvetov got the start for this competition and was matched up against Jakub Skarek. Calgary got going early in the zone and when Clark Bishop was taken down in the Barracuda’s crease, they got the first power play chance of the game. Early in the man advantage, Jeremie Poirier got a puck up to Aydar Suniev, who had three opponents in the zone but still managed to skate right in a take a well placed shot that beat Skarek point blank. This goal game just 1:15 into the game.

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Quick goal on the power play from Aydar Suniev

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San Jose got a similar opportunity around the midway mark of the period when Jeremie Poirier was called on a questionable roughing call. Early in this power play, the Barracuda gave the Wranglers the uno reverse and scored just 12 seconds into the power play off a back door passing play. Igor Chernyshov was the goal scorer for the Barracuda.

Calgary wasn’t wasting any time trying to get one back and Sam Morton had a couple of great chances around the 11:45 mark. A couple of minutes later, William Stromgren was called for tripping and the Wranglers were back in penalty killing mode. This call was another that could’ve gone either way.

The home team killed off this penalty and the score remained. Later in the period, the Barracuda looked like they had a wide open net but somehow fanned on the shot. In the last five seconds of the period, Turner Ottenbreit was called for high-sticking and by the end of the opening 20 minutes, the score remained an even 1-1. Shots in the first were 12-9 San Jose.

Ottenbreit started the second in the box and Calgary was unable to kill off the rest of this penalty. Luca Cagnoni took a pretty harmless looking shot but with a couple of guys in front, Prosvetov wasn’t able to get a good read on it and it went right past him. This goal came 46 seconds into the period.

Calgary continued to play from behind in the first half of this period and struggled to get much space up in the offensive zone. They had a chance to get something going for themselves again when Daniil Miromanov was tripped up at 9:10.

They managed to score just over halfway into the man advantage when Dryden Hunt buried a puck right on the doorstep. Rory Kerins and Daniil Miromanov picked up the assists on this equalizer.

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Patience on the power play pays off with the equalizing goal from Dryden Hunt

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35 seconds later, San Jose took the lead again with a goal from Cam Lund. Then, 31 seconds after that go-ahead goal, they made more space between them and the home team with a goal from Igor Chernyshov in a similar fashion. A pass up to the slot and time for the skater to pick and rip a shot past the Wranglers’ netminder. This goal ended Ivan Prosvetov’s night and Owen Say came for him in relief.

These teams exchanged power plays then the second ended with Nick Cicek still in the box with 41 seconds left in his penalty. After 40 minutes, the Wranglers trailed the Barracuda 4-2 and shots in the second were an even 8-8.

The Wranglers killed off the rest of Cicek’s penalty then played the first five minutes of the third with a lot more urgency. Hunter Brzustewicz had a good look early off David Silye’s rebound and the team continued to build from there.

They had a chance on the power play at 5:55 when Jack Thompson was called for interference. Calgary tried to set something up on a passing play but the Barracuda weren’t giving them much room and they were only able to put one shot on net.

They kept trying for their next but Skarek was turning everything away and they weren’t getting any lucky bounces. They got another chance on the power play at 12:22 anf the best look of the man advantage went to Martin Frk who wound up for a slap shot and rang it off the post.

At 15:27, Nick Cicek was called for interference and the guys on the ice had quite a lot of protesting to do about that call. It was a tough night on the officiating side of things for this team. They still managed to kill this off and at 2:22, Owen Say put up a huge glove save to keep the score where it was.

At 1:30, Brett Sutter called a timeout and six seconds later, Martin Frk’s second big slap shot of the game went into the back of the net. Daniil Miromanov and Rory Kerins assisted.

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Scoring stat summary

Aydar Suniev – 1G

Jeremie Poirier – 1A

Dryden Hunt – 1G

Rory Kerins – 2A

Daniil Miromanov – 2A

Martin Frk – 1G

Highlights

Next up

The Wranglers get a day between games this time around and close off this two game set on Saturday for a weekend matinee game. They look to at least get a point in this series and hopefully a split. They have tomorrow to fine tune things in practice, then their next game gets started at 1:00 p.m. MT.