GAME PREVIEW: IOWA WILD AT SAN DIEGO GULLS

Jan 8, 2025

Iowa Wild (11-18-2-0; 24 pts.) at San Diego Gulls (9-18-3-2; 23 pts.) 

The Iowa Wild travel Pechanga Arena to visit the San Diego Gulls on Wednesday at 9 p.m. 

ALL-TIME SERIES 

All-Time Iowa Wild Record: 10-9-2-1 (5-5-1-0 at Wells Fargo Arena, 5-4-1-1 at San Diego)  

Last Time: San Diego beat Iowa 7-4 at Wells Fargo Arena on Jan. 27, 2024 to complete a weekend sweep... David Spacek, Carson Lambos, and Mason Shaw scored for the Wild... Nikita Nesterenko and Sasha Pastujov each recorded hat tricks and four-point games for the Gulls 

2023-24: Iowa finished 1-2-0-1 against San Diego last season... Sammy Walker led the Wild in points and assists (4)... Mason Shaw led Iowa skaters in goals (3)... Nikita Nesterenko posted eight points (5-3=8) in four games... The two teams combined for three power-play goals in 29 opportunities... Both games in San Diego were decided by one goal 

TEAM NOTES 

PERIOD STREAKS SNAPPED: Iowa snapped a six game streak of allowing a goal in the second period on Friday at Milwaukee... The Wild’s opponents had scored 14 second period goals over that span... Iowa saw a three-game first period goal scoring streak come to an end 

GAMES IN REGULATION: The Wild have played the second fewest overtime games in the AHL this season (2), behind Henderson (1)... Iowa is one of four teams in the AHL to not play in a shootout this season... The team’s longest single-season regular stretch without a shootout came over the entire 2020-21 regular season (34 games) 

FOUR OR MORE: Over the last 17 games, Iowa has won every game in which the team has scored four goals and lost every game in which the team scored fewer than four goals... The Wild have not won when scoring three or fewer dating back to Oct. 29 (3-2 W vs. CHI) 

HOT HANDS 

• Caedan Bankier is riding a three-game point streak (2-1=3) 

• Luke Toporowski has registered an assist in back-to-back games 

• Hunter Haight has three points in his last three games (1-2=3) 

• Jan Mysak has posted points in each of San Diego’s previous four games (3-3=6) 

• Sasha Pastujov has points in back-to-back games (1-1=2) 

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