{"id":470032,"date":"2026-02-12T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470032\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:53:06","slug":"pacific-division-takes-2026-all-star-challenge-crown-theahl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470032\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Division takes 2026 All-Star Challenge crown | TheAHL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROCKFORD, Ill. \u2026 Colorado Eagles captain Jayson Megna<\/a> scored four goals and assisted on three others as the Pacific Division captured the 2026 AHL All-Star Challenge at a sold-out BMO Center on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

It was the third win in four years for the Pacific Division, which defeated the Central Division by a 3-1 score in the championship game.<\/p>\n

Megna, the captain of the Western Conference All-Star side, scored three goals in a 4-1 win over the North Division in their opening match, and added a goal and two assists in a 3-2 win over the Atlantic Division. He was named the\u00a0BMO Most Valuable Player\u00a0of the All-Star Challenge.<\/p>\n

Needing to win by four goals in their finale to advance out of the round-robin portion of the night, the Central squad pulled out a 4-0 victory over the Pacific team to set up a rematch in the championship game.<\/p>\n

Abbotsford\u2019s Ben Berard<\/a> had two goals and three assists and Henderson\u2019s Tanner Laczynski<\/a> added one goal and three assists for the Pacific Division. Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton\u2019s Tristan Broz<\/a> notched three goals and two assists to lead the Atlantic Division offense, and Texas\u2019 Cameron Hughes<\/a> scored three times for the Central while hometown Rockford IceHogs skaters Nick Lardis<\/a> and Brett Seney<\/a> chipped in three points each.<\/p>\n

Belleville\u2019s Arthur Kaliyev<\/a>, the AHL\u2019s leader with 29 goals so far this season, scored twice for the North Division.<\/p>\n

Colorado\u2019s Isak Posch<\/a> led all goaltenders with 12 saves on 13 shots over the evening.<\/p>\n

The 2026 AHL All-Star Challenge featured 18 former first- or second-round NHL draft picks, and 28 players who have skated in the National Hockey League already this season.<\/p>\n

The road to the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs continues when the American Hockey League\u2019s historic 90th-anniversary season resumes on Friday.<\/p>\n

2026 AHL All-Star Challenge Results
Game 1 \u2013 Central Division 1, Atlantic Division 1 (SO)
Game 2 \u2013 Pacific Division 4, North Division 1
Game 3 \u2013 Pacific Division 3, Atlantic Division 2
Game 4 \u2013 North Division 3, Central Division 2
Game 5 \u2013 Atlantic Division 4, North Division 0
Game 6 \u2013 Central Division 4, Pacific Division 0
Championship \u2013 Pacific Division 3, Central Division 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCKFORD, Ill. \u2026 Colorado Eagles captain Jayson Megna scored four goals and assisted on three others as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-470032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}