GAME PREVIEW: IOWA WILD VS. ONTARIO REIGN
Mar 20, 2026Iowa Wild (20-30-5-1; 46 pts.) vs. Ontario Reign (39-16-3-2; 83 pts.)
The Iowa Wild and Ontario Reign meet at Casey's Center on Friday at 7 p.m. on ALS Awareness Night, presented by The ALS Association. Iowa will wear throwback red jerseys, available for purchase via online auction, with proceeds benefitting The ALS Association. The first 1,500 fans will receive a Nico Sturm bobblehead, presented by The ALS Association and 95 KGGO.
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ALL-TIME SERIES
All-Time Iowa Wild Record: 7-9-1-1 (4-3-1-0 at Iowa, 3-6-0-1 at Ontario)
Last Time: Ontario beat Iowa 4-3 at Toyota Arena on Jan. 7... Boris Katchouk, Carson Lambos, and Gerry Mayhew scored for Iowa... The Wild finished 2-for-4 on the power play... Pheonix Copley turned aside 24-of-27 shots for Ontario
2024-25: Iowa finished 2-2-0-0 against Ontario during the last season series... Graeme Clarke (2-2=4), Michael Milne (2-2=4), and Liam Öhgren (0-4=4) paced the Wild offensively... Samuel Hlavaj went 2-1-0 with a 2.01 GAA and a 0.941 SV%... Glenn Gawdin (5-2=7) paced the Reign in goals and points... Martin Chromiak and Charles Hudon each registered four assists
TEAM NOTES
LAST TEN: The Wild are one of six AHL teams to win seven of their last 10 games... Iowa has earned 15 of a possible 20 points... Ontario is the only unbeaten team in the AHL over their last 10 games (7-0-2-1)
SEASON SERIES: Iowa is 0-2-0 against Ontario this season... Neither team has scored a third period goal
THREE-IN-THREE Iowa plays Ontario at home on Friday and Saturday before visiting Chicago on Sunday... The three-game stretch is Iowa’s only three-in-three of the season
SCORING FIRST: The team scoring first has won 10 of Iowa’s last 12 games... Ontario has scored the first goal in both games of the season series
SPECIAL TEAMS STATS: The Wild have scored a power-play goal in three consecutive games (3-for-16)
HUNTER’S FIRST
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Hunter Haight recorded his first NHL point with an assist on Nico Sturm’s second period goal against Chicago on Thursday night
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Haight became the 10th Iowa Wild alumni to record a point with Minnesota this season
HOT HANDS
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Carson Lambos (1-1=2), Gerry Mayhew (1-3=4) and Tyler Pitlick (1-1=2) have points in back-to-back games
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Dylan Gambrell is riding a three-game point streak (1-4=5)
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Jean-Luc Foudy also has points in three games in a row (1-2=3)
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