Calgary, AB \u2013\u00a0The Calgary Wranglers returned to the win column\u00a0Thursday night, defeating the Laval Rocket 4-2 at the Scotiabank Saddledome to\u00a0move\u00a0to 6-5-0.<\/p>\n
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Mike Benning<\/a> opened the scoring with just nine seconds remaining in the first period, with assists from Rory Kerins<\/a> and Dryden Hunt<\/a> to give Calgary a 1-0 lead heading into the intermission.<\/p>\n William Str\u00f6mgren<\/a> extended Calgary’s lead midway through the second period, scoring his third goal of the season on the power play, with Kerins and Hunt each\u00a0getting\u00a0their second\u00a0assist\u00a0of the night.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n However, Laval responded early in the third period with a power-play goal from Luke Mittelstadt to cut Calgary’s lead to 2-1. Xavier Simoneau tied the game at 2-2 with just over five minutes remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Just 1:04 later, Alex Nylander<\/a> restored Calgary’s lead, scoring his third goal of the season with assists from Luke Philp<\/a> and Ben Jones<\/a>. Jones added an empty-net goal in the final two minutes to secure the 4-2 victory.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Kerins, Hunt and Jones each finished with two-point performances, while the Wranglers went 1-for-4 on the power play.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Arsenii Sergeev<\/a> made the start in goal, stopping 36 of 38 shots faced.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Wranglers remain at home for a rematch against the Rocket on Saturday, October 31, with puck drop set for 12:00 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Fans can catch all the action live on AHLTV via FloHockey at\u00a0https:\/\/flosports.link\/46YqCIJ<\/a>\u00a0or listen to the radio broadcast at\u00a0https:\/\/edge.mixlr.com\/channel\/fblzn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary, AB \u2013\u00a0The Calgary Wranglers returned to the win column\u00a0Thursday night, defeating the Laval Rocket 4-2 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[6066,49,2798,197090,48,325423],"class_list":["post-951551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ahl","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-wranglers","tag-canada","tag-wranglers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951551","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=951551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}