Reign Edge Condors, 4-3
AHL Ontario Reign

Reign Edge Condors, 4-3

Published on February 7, 2026 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Ontario Reign News Release


The Ontario Reign (31-14-1-1) defeated the Bakersfield Condors (25-14-7-0) Saturday night by a final score of 4-3 in in front of 9,787 fans at Toyota Arena heading into the All-Star break first place in the Pacific Division. The Reign are next in action on Saturday, Feb. 14 in Abbotsford at 7 p.m. PST.

Koehn Ziemmer recorded his first professional hat-trick scoring the final three goals of the game with his first coming in early into the second period and his next two coming in his first two shifts of the third period. Ontario trailed 3-1 after the first as Cole Guttman scored on the power-play extending the Reign's power-play goal streak to 10 games on home ice.

Ontario trailed 3-1 after the first period as shots favored Bakersfield 10-8. Riley Stillman gave the Condors a 1-0 lead at 10:02 on a slapshot from the blue line past the glove of Copley. The Reign went on their first power-play of the night at 11:48 but it would be James Hamblin scoring short-handed 15 seconds into the penalty kill on a wrist shot from the right circle low far side doubling the lead. Then 1:28 later Cole Guttman (17th) scored on the power-play from Nikita Alexandrov cutting the deficit down to 2-1 with 6:29 left in the stanza. In the high slot Alexandrov sent a shot of the right pad of Ungar where the rebound bounced out to Guttman below the right circle where he slid it in. With 2:15 left in the frame the Condors re-gained a two-goal advantage when Damien Carfagna banged home his own rebound near the crease.

Ontario cut their deficit down to one in the middle frame as they trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes of play. Koehn Ziemmer (4th) scored 2:40 into the stanza from Kirill Kirsanov and Angus Booth on a rebound score in the blue paint. The Reign outshot the Condors 15-8.

Ziemmer (5th, 6th) would score in back-to-back shifts to start the third period giving the Reign a 4-3 lead. His first came at 3:34 when Jack Millar worked the puck on the right-wing wall feeding Ziemmer in the high slot where he beat Ungar five-hole. Then at 6:50 he sent a wrist shot from the right circle into the top right corner from Jared Wright and Joe Hicketts completing the hat-trick and giving the Reign their first lead of the night. Ontario outshot Bakersfield 6-3 in the final 20 minutes of play on their way to the win.

Pheonix Copley earned the win in net making 18 saves on 21 shots while Connor Ungar suffered the loss making 27 saves on 31 shots. The Reign went 1-for-6 on the power-play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.

Postgame thoughts from Andrew Lord, Koehn Ziemmer, and Jared Wright.

Lord

On tonight's win

It was a lot of fun. I thought we started a little slow. Give them credit, obviously they get the early lead, which wasn't ideal. But love the claw back. I thought the power play goal there by Guttman and Alexandrov was huge to get us on the board. And then the second and third was our way, playing fast, playing behind them on the forecheck, on the cycle. I thought our group was really relentless. The shot volume was there, the traffic was there, and you know, Ziemmer was there. So awesome night. Really fun for him and for everybody. And a nice way to kind of go into this little break here.

Ziemmer

On his hat trick

Feels good. Felt good all night. Obviously, first period didn't go how we wanted, but I think throughout the second and third, we battled back, obviously getting back into the game, and shift after shift, everyone was going so to come out with two points there is unreal.

On winning before going into the All-Star Break

I think after the break, it's kind of the final stretch into the playoffs. I think it's a good time to be playing some good hockey. Some much needed time off here, away from the rink for a couple days, and then back to it after it after that. Yeah. Like I said, the final stretch going into the playoffs.

On if tonight's game had a playoff feel

Yes, for sure. I think especially on a back to back against the same team. I think it was a battle all night. They're obviously a very good team right on our tail in the standings. That's about as much of a playoff type game you're going to get in regular season.

Wright

On the energy in the arena tonight

It was so much fun. I think the crowd was just roaring all night long. I think that was one of the most memorable moments. Just Ziemmer getting the hat trick. It was so much fun, just in between face offs, just even laughing, I don't know we were just having so much fun out there. And obviously really happy for him. And it was a long time coming. I'm glad to see that he's able to do that.

On the comeback

I think what we know about our team is, no matter what the score is, we know we can comeback. And I don't think we had the greatest first period, but I think we also have the ability to comeback, and I think we proved that time and time again. Obviously we don't want to be down going into games, but I think just knowing that we have a special group here, we should never give up.

1st 2nd 3rd FINAL

ONT 1 1 2 4

BAK 3 0 0 3

Shots PP

ONT 31 1/6

BAK 21 0/3

GAME PHOTOS | FULL RECAP | HIGHLIGHTS

Three Stars -

1. Koehn Ziemmer (ONT)

2. Cole Guttman (ONT)

3. James Hamblin (BAK)

W: Copley

L: Ungar

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