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Wranglers recap: Special teams and early shots put a season opening victory out of reach
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Photo credit: Angela Burger/Calgary Wranglers
Paige Siewert
Oct 11, 2025, 12:00 EDTUpdated: Oct 11, 2025, 02:17 EDT
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The 2025-26 Calgary Wranglers made their season debut in Loveland, Colorado on Friday night. Ivan Prosvetov got his first look in a Wranglers jersey and was heavily peppered in the first frame. Most of the damage was done in the first and second period and by the third, Calgary could not complete the comeback. A night where special teams especially could use some clean up ended in a 7-4 loss for the Wranglers.

Wranglers lines

William Stromgren – Rory Kerins – Dryden Hunt 
Aydar Suniev – Sam Morton – Martin Frk 
Parker Bell – Clark Bishop – Andrew Basha 
Lucas Ciona – Carter King – David Silye 
Yan Kuznetsov – Hunter Brzustewicz
Nick Cicek – Jeremie Poirier
Artem Grushnikov – Simon Mack
Ivan Prosvetov 
Owen Say (backup)

Game at a glance

Ivan Prosvetov got the season opening start for the Wranglers and Isak Posch was in net for the Colorado Eagles. The Wranglers didn’t get the start they would’ve hoped for as Jeremie Poirier took an interference penalty at 1:23 and by 2:02, the Eagles put up their first goal of the season off a bar down shot. 
A few minutes later, Jeremie Poirier was back in the box for high-sticking at 5:54. This penalty unfortunately had the same result, with an Eagles power play goal at 6:32. Tristen Nielsen was wide open in the slop and tapped the puck home to extend Colorado’s lead to 2-0. 
Calgary was able to get their first look on the power play at 8:17 when Jason Polin was called for slashing. They finally got their first shot on goal during this man advantage but were unable to cut Colorado’s lead. Instead, the next goal was off the stick of Chase Bradley of the Eagles at 13:13 for the first even strength goal of the night. 
The Wranglers were back on the power play at 16:32 when Chase Bradley interfered with Aydar Suniev. This power play proved to be more successful when Hunter Brzustewicz set Martin Frk up for a rocket of a shot at 17:44. 
Later in the period, offsetting penalties were dealt to Clark Bishop and T.J. Tynan and the Eagles put up six more shots in the last two minutes of the frame. The first ended with the Eagles ahead 3-1 and miles ahead in shots 22-4. 
The misfortunes of the first period appeared to roll over into the second when Chase Bradley scored his second of the game just 3:01 into the frame off a wrist shot in front. Calgary was able to answer back soon after with a goal from the top line. Dryden Hunt finished up a play with a backhand shot with Rory Kerins and Jeremie Poirier assisting at 4:46. 
The scoring surge took a break for a few minutes, then Lucas Ciona was called for tripping at 7:38. In the second half of this penalty kill, Danil Gushchin scored the third Eagles goal of the game through traffic up the middle of the zone once again. By this point in the game, Colorado was up 5-2 and a perfect three for three on the power play. 
Later in the period, Danil Gushchin scored once again off a back door set up at 17:10. 17 seconds later, Dryden Hunt also scored his second of the period set up by William Stromgren and Rory Kerins. 
Calgary had a good push to end the second period but were down 6-3 after 40 complete minutes of play. Shots by the end of the second were 33-12 Eagles. Early in the third period, Yan Kuznetsov scored his first goal of the year off an Eagles turnover at 3:04. 
The Wranglers appeared to get their control back of this game and kept the Eagles at bay. At 17:02, they pulled Prosvetov for the extra attacker and 20 seconds later, a big fight erupted that resulted in a continuing altercation misconduct, cross-checking and roughing call against Alex Gagne, a continuing altercation misconduct and cross-checking call against Dryden Hunt and a continuing altercation misconduct against Martin Frk.
Ivan Prosvetov needed to come back for the face-off following then skated back off at 17:43. At 19:08, Wyatt Aamodt cleared the zone fully and scored on the empty net to make it a 7-4 game. This dimmed any hope of a Wranglers comeback and that score remained for the final decision at the end of 60 minutes. Shots finished 40-18 for Colorado. 

Scoring stat summary

Jeremie Poirier – 1A
Rory Kerins – 2A
William Stromgren – 1A
Dryden Hunt – 2G
Martin Frk – 1G
Yan Kuznetsov – 1G
Hunter Brzustewicz – 1A

Next up 

This season opening series continues into Saturday with a start time of 7:05 p.m. MT. The Wranglers look to pick up a split against the Eagles before their next road series in Tucson, AZ next weekend.

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