Wild Night in Iowa, Reign Downed, 4-1
Published on March 20, 2026 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Ontario Reign News Release
The Ontario Reign (39-17-3-2) fell to the Iowa Wild (21-30-5-1) Friday night in by a final score of 4-1 in front of 7,376 fans at Casey's Center. The Reign and Wild will square off Saturday at 3 p.m. PST.
Francesco Pinelli scored the lone goal in the loss tying his single season point total with his 29th of the year as the Reign saw their point streak end at 11 games.
It was a scoreless first period where the Wild held a slight edge in shots 6-5. Each team had one power-play opportunity while Jacob Doty and Braiden Fischer-Simmons dropped the gloves 2:29 into the contest.
The Wild scored three times in the front half of the second period holding a 3-0 advantage through 40 minutes of play. Nicolas Aubé-Kubel started the scoring 3:07 into the middle frame sending a wrist shot from the high slot into the top left corner. Dylan Gambrell doubled the lead at 7:23 on a one-time score from the left circle on the power-play. Then at 9:35 Matt Kiersted made it 3-0 blasting a slapshot from the top of the left circle into the top right corner. Shots favored the Wild 14-8 in the stanza.
Francesco Pinelli (11th) got the Reign on the board with 5:15 left in regulation from Kirill Kirsanov and Angus Booth cutting the deficit down to one. Behind the net Kirsanov fed Pinelli at the left circle where he put the puck towards the blue paint and hit off an Iowa skater and into the back of the net with a lot of traffic near the crease. Tyler Pitlick provided the insurance goal scoring an empty netter with 20 seconds left for Iowa giving the Wild a 4-1 win.
1st 2nd 3rd FINAL
ONT 0 0 1 1
IA 0 3 1 4
Shots PP
ONT 21 0/3
IA 26 1/5
Three Stars -
1. Gerry Mayhew (IA)
2. Dylan Gambrell (IA)
3. Cal Peterson (IA)
W: Peterson
L: Portillo
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