Overview
- San Jose’s Lucas Carlsson scored with less than a second remaining to hand Ontario a 5-4 defeat on New Year’s Eve at Toyota Arena.
- Cole Guttman recorded two goals, an assist, and a fighting major, including a first-period power-play strike that opened the scoring.
- Tim Rego netted his first AHL goal to tie the game 4-4 early in the third after Guttman pulled Ontario within one 80 seconds into the period.
- Pheonix Copley, loaned back from the Kings earlier in the week, started and took the loss with 26 saves on 31 shots.
- A night earlier, Ontario edged Henderson 3-2 in a shootout after Andre Lee’s extra-attacker equalizer with 25 seconds left, with Guttman scoring the shootout winner and Isaiah Saville stopping all three attempts.