Nearly 100 years ago, professional hockey debuted in California. That first game came on Dec. 9, 1926 when the California Hockey League opened its debut season, featuring the Richfield Oilers beating the Globe Ice Cream team 3-1 at the Glacier Ice Palace. We’re still searching for an official game recap from that night, yet we’re […]
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Ontario Reign Lineup vs. Bakersfield Condors; Plenty of Changes for Home-And-Home Series
Life in the minor leagues can be a revolving door of player moves, and this week has been no exception for the Ontario Reign. They signed a player to a tryout contract, lost a defenseman to the NHL (Jacob Moverare), added a defenseman via a conditioning assignment (Toby Bjornfot), etc. Then, things really took a […]
Ontario Reign Lineup vs. Henderson Silver Knights; Plus Change for Bjornfot and a Pinelli Update
Toby’s Last Stand is no more. Or, more appropriately… it’s at least been delayed a bit. Heading into Wednesday night’s game, it appeared it would be defenseman Toby Bjornfot’s last game of his AHL conditioning assignment. After basically being idle for about a month, Kings management had him join the Reign for what was expected […]
Ontario Reign Lineup at Coachella Valley Firebirds; Notes on Portillo, Bjornfot, Moverare
How about this strange factoid — the Ontario Reign and Coachella Valley Firebirds have played three times this season, every game has ended in a shutout. Following Ontario blanking the second-year franchise twice previously, it was Coachella Valley reversing the tables for a 2-0 victory on Friday night. Now, everybody heads east to the desert […]
Ontario Reign Lineup vs. Coachella Valley Firebirds; Notes on Bjornfot, Pinelli, Clarke
For the first as part of the 2023-24 AHL campaign, the Coachella Valley Firebirds will visit Toyota Arena on Friday night. However, they have already met up with the Reign twice this season — and been shutout in both games by goaltender David Rittich. He’s expected back in net tonight, with rookie goaltender Erik Portillo […]