Reign Get Past Eagles, 4-1
AHL Ontario Reign

Reign Get Past Eagles, 4-1

Published on January 24, 2026 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Ontario Reign News Release


The Ontario Reign (27-12-1-1) defeated the Colorado Eagles (25-10-1-3) Saturday night by a final score of 4-1 in in front of 9,987 fans at Toyota Arena. The Reign will host the Abbotsford Canucks Wednesday at 7 p.m. PST.

Cole Guttman scored a pair of first period goals with his first coming 18 seconds into the contest as Ontario led 2-0 after the first period. Andre Lee scored midway through the second period for his team leading 16th of the season and then the Eagles found the back of the net shortly after as the Reign took a 3-1 lead into the third period. Aatu Jämsen scored on the power-play in the third period while Nikita Alexandrov finished the game with a pair of assists.

Ontario led 2-0 after the first period on a pair of goals from Cole Guttman. Guttman (14th) started the scoring just 18 seconds in when Logan Brown from inside the left circle found Guttman driving the net where he directed a shot over the glove of Trent Miner into the top right corner. Then at 7:05 Guttman (15th) was setup up on a similar play to his first goal when Nikita Alexandrov inside the left face-off dot found Guttman backdoor for a redirection. The Eagles outshot the Reign 9-7.

The Reign held a 3-1 advantage through 40 minutes of play. Andre Lee (16th) increased the lead to 3-0 from Samuel Bolduc at 12:12. Back in the defensive zone Bolduc sent the puck high and out up the right wing where Lee collected it in front of the scorer's table. From there he cut to the right circle and sent a wrist shot off the right post and in. Daniil Gushchin got the Eagles on the board 71 seconds later with a four-on-four tally sending a wrist shot into the top right corner.

The lone goal in the third period came on the power-play from Aatu Jämsen (8th) from Glenn Gawdin at 8:12. Gawdin behind his own blue line fed Jämsen down the right-wing wall through the neutral zone. Jämsen worked the puck through the right circle cutting behind the defender and slipped the puck into the back of the net making it 4-1.

Pheonix Copley made 28 saves on 29 shots in the win. Trent Miner allowed two goals on seven shots in the first period and suffered the loss. Kyle Keyser made 13 saves on 15 shots in 40 minutes of relief.

Ontario went 1-for-3 on the power-play and 2-for-2 on the penalty kill.

Postgame thoughts from Andrew Lord, Joe Hicketts, and Logan Brown.

Lord

On tonight's win

It was good. A good night for us, more of a complete 60 overall. Obviously, getting one 18 seconds in was great. Brown's line was certainly going, making plays all over the ice. Probably should've had a couple more. That was a huge component. Obviously, him to Guttman, and then Alexandrov to Guttman for the second one. I liked it. We played with the lead pretty well. Obviously, they're going to push. They're going to get some looks. They got that four on four goal there in the second, which gives them a little surge. But I thought the late power play goal by Jamsen was huge to restore the three goal lead.

Hicketts

On playing Colorado

They're a really good hockey team. I think it kind of brings the best out of us as well. They push us to be our best. We've been fortunate, it's been six games now that we've come on the right side, you know, the majority of it. But again, it's nice when our team's playing the way we can. And if it's never going to be full 60, maybe we strive for that, and that's something that we're really stressing and hammering into our brains. But we tend to play more complete efforts against these guys.

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