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GAME PREVIEW: IOWA WILD AT ROCKFORD ICEHOGS

GAME PREVIEW: IOWA WILD AT ROCKFORD ICEHOGS

Apr 4, 2026

Iowa Wild (22-33-6-3; 53 pts.) at Rockford IceHogs (27-24-3-2; 59 pts.) 

The Iowa Wild and Rockford IceHogs complete a home-and-home at BMO Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. 

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LISTEN: 1460 AM and 106.3 FM on KXnO 

ALL-TIME SERIES 

All-Time Iowa Wild Record: 62-56-8-6 (32-32-1-2 at Iowa, 30-24-7-4 at Rockford) 

Last Time: Rockford opened a home-and-home with a 5-2 win over Iowa at Casey’s Center on Friday night... Nicolas Aubé-Kubel and Ben Jones scored for the Wild... Brett Seney found the back of the net twice for the IceHogs... William Rousseau stopped 22-of-27 shots... Olivier Rodrigue turned aside 17-of-19 shots 

2024-25: Iowa finished 5-7-0-0 against Rockford in 2024-25... Three games in the season series were decided by a single goal... Travis Boyd led Iowa skaters with 12 points (2-10=12) against Rockford... Zach Sanford (7-5=12) and Cole Guttman (6-6=12) paced IceHogs skaters against the Wild... Samuel Hlavaj posted a 3-1-0 record with a 2.33 GAA and 0.922 SV% in five appearances 

TEAM NOTES 

EVEN STRENGTH: Iowa has played 14 regulation periods and two overtime sessions without scoring a 5-on-5 goal... Elliot Desnoyers scored Iowa’s last even strength goal at 16:44 of the first period on Mar. 25 vs. Chicago 

SEASON SERIES: The Wild are 1-4-2-1 against the IceHogs this season... Friday’s game against Rockford is the fourth game in eight days between the Central Division opponents... The Wild play the IceHogs six times between Mar. 14 and Apr. 10 

SPECIAL TEAMS STATS: The Wild have converted on the power play in six games in a row against the IceHogs (9-for-34)... Iowa has scored a power-play goal in three of the last four games (5-for-15) 

PLAY BY PERIOD: Iowa has been outshot just once in the last nine first periods... The Wild have not outscored an opponent in seven consecutive second periods 

SEASON SERIES 

  • Ben Jones leads Iowa in goals (5) and points against Rockford 

  • Dylan Gambrell and David Spacek lead the Wild in assists (5) against the IceHogs 

  • Cal Petersen owns Iowa’s lone win against Rockford this season 

  • Brett Seney leads Rockford in assists (8) and points against Iowa 

  • Dominic Toninato registered six goals in four games against Iowa 

  • Stanislav Berezhnoy, Drew Commesso, and Olivier Rodrigue have each won two games against the Wild 

CAPTAIN’S CORNER 

  • Ben Jones has scored five goals in Iowa’s last three games against Rockford 

  • Three of the captain’s five goals have come in the third period 

  • Jones scored with the goaltender pulled in favor with the extra attacker at 18:51 of the third period to force overtime on Mar. 28 

  • Jones scored on the power play to force overtime with 2:51 remaining the next night 

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