Ontario Reign: Looking at the Numbers Through 15 Games

We are 15 games into the AHL season, meaning that the Ontario Reign are near the first quarter mark of the 2025-26 season.

The Reign sit in fourth place in the Pacific Division with 17 points, tied with the Bakersfield Condors and Henderson Silver Knights, with a record of 8-6-1-0. With 15 games gone by the wayside, let’s see how the numbers look for the Reign.

We’ll start with the team numbers first!

Goals per game

The Reign have scored 51 total goals this season, tied with the Coachella Valley Firebirds and Colorado Eagles. The AHL website has the Reign at 8th in total goals.

As for goals per game, the Reign are eighth in the league at 3.4. The most goals they have scored in a game this season are six.

Shots on goal per game

The Reign’s average of 3.4 goals per game looks good, but their shots on goal per game aren’t. Ontario averages 25.5 shots on goal per game, tied for 29th in the league. It’s fair to say that they take advantage of the limited opportunities they give themselves.

Goals against per game

The Reign have allowed 44 total goals, averaging 2.93 goals against per game. That’s good enough for 18th in the AHL. The blue line for the Reign is still young, and the goaltending outside of Erik Portillo hasn’t been strong enough, which is a reason they are slightly below the middle of the pack.

Shots on goal against per game

Ontario’s opposition averages 27.6 shots on goal per game. That comes in at 13th in the league. The Reign are bottom five in putting pucks on net, but are slightly above the middle of the pack in allowing shots on goal.

Team save percentage

The Reign’s team save percentage sits at .894. That’s tied for 20th in the league with the Calgary Wranglers and Henderson Silver Knights. Portillo leads the team in save percentage at .915 among qualified goaltenders on the Reign.

Pheonix Copley has gotten off to a slow start and has accumulated an .870 save percentage. Isaiah Saville has appeared once in relief and stopped all three shots he faced (he has only played one game and doesn’t count among qualified netminders on the Reign).

Special teams

Special teams haven’t been great for the Reign. Their power play ranks 16th at 19.4%. On the road, they rank 14th at 22.2%, which is better than their 15.4% (21st) at home. The penalty kill struggled early on, but has killed off 13 of the last 14 (92.9%). Due to their early-season struggles, that unit ranks 28th in the league at 77.8%.

Let’s take a look at individual stats now!

Goals

Taylor Ward leads the team with seven goals. The next player is Martin Chromiak with six. The Reign have achieved balanced scoring in their lineup, and Ward’s hot stretch on Ontario’s five-game road trip at the end of October, during which he scored five times, has put him in the lead. He’s been held off the scoresheet for the last two games.

Assists

Akil Thomas and Glenn Gawdin are tied for the team lead in assists with eight apiece. Thomas has some playmaking ability in him, and head coach Andrew Lord seems to like his two-way game as a centerman. Gawdin hasn’t had the offensive output he probably would’ve liked, but he’s still one of the Reign’s better all-around forwards.

Primary assists

Thomas and Gawdin also lead the team with six primary assists, whether it be skill or by way of good fortune. 75% of their helpers have been via primary assists.

Secondary assists

Rookie Kenny Connors leads the team with five secondary assists. 83.3% of his assists are via secondary ones. Secondary assists are often overlooked because they aren’t the assists setting up the goal scorer. However, I still believe secondary assists are just as important because sometimes a player can keep the play alive or start the play, leading to the team’s goal.

Points

Through 15 games, Thomas leads the team in points with 12. After a slow start offensively, Thomas has picked up the pace with seven points (2 G, 5 A) in his last six games.

5v5 goals

Just like how he leads the team in goals with seven, Ward also leads the team with five 5v5 tallies. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as Ward’s gritty play style and overall 5v5 game have improved over the last two-plus seasons.

5v5 points

Thomas and Connors lead the team with seven 5v5 points. Seven of Thomas’ 12 points have come at 5v5, and seven of Connors’ nine points have come in that variety as well. Connors thrived at 5v5 play in college at UMass and has done so to start his professional career.

Power play goals

Chromiak is the team leader in power-play goals with four. Chromiak has assumed the Martin Frk/Samuel Fagemo role as the one-timer threat from the left circle. The Reign have scored 12 power-play goals as a team, and 33% of them have come from Chromiak’s stick.

+/- rating

Connors leads the team with a +/- rating of +11. Plus/minus isn’t a stat to measure the value of a player, but it’s a cool little nugget I found. Fun fact, Connors has been on the ice for 11 goals for and three against at 5v5.

Rookie skaters

The Reign have had seven rookies skate in at least one game. Four of those skaters are from the 2022 draft class (including Jack Hughes’ AHL contract), one from 2023, one from the 2021 draft class, and one AHL signing.

Connors is tied in goals (3) with Jared Wright, but leads all rookie skaters on the team in assists (6), points (9), plus/minus (+11), and shots on goal (23). Jack Hughes is second on the team in assists (4) and points (5) among rookie skaters.

Wright and Koehn Ziemmer are tied with four points each. Wright is also second in plus/minus for rookie skaters on the Reign (+9). Otto Salin is the only rookie defenseman with a goal. Kirill Kirsanov has two assists and has suited up in all 15 games as well.