The Manitoba Moose head into their meeting with the Chicago Wolves with a 2-1-0-0 record, wrapping up a two-game road trip tonight at Allstate Arena.
Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. CDT, with coverage beginning at 6:45 p.m. CDT on CJOB.com, the Winnipeg Jets App and AHLTV on FloHockey.
Noah Gregor has been the early spark for Manitoba. He has scored in each of the team’s first three games and sits at five points overall, with three goals and two assists.
The Beaumont, Alta. native also scored the Moose’s first goal of the season on Oct. 3, and he did it again Friday night when his goal was the lone Manitoba marker in a 2-1 loss to the Grand Rapids Griffins. That game was Gregor’s 400th as a professional.
He now has 62 points (28G, 34A) in 72 AHL games, and he has found the net in six of his past seven regular season AHL games dating back to 2025-26, when he was with the Charlotte Checkers.
Manitoba’s attack has come out firing. Through three games, the Moose have put 104 shots on goal, which works out to nearly 35 per game.
Gregor leads the club with 16 shots on target, while Colby Barlow and Henry Thrun are next with nine each. Every Moose skater has recorded at least one shot attempt.
Brayden Yager, Kevin He and Davis Burnside are tied for the team lead in shooting percentage at 33.3.
Parker Ford also got on the scoresheet Friday, assisting on Gregor’s goal for his first point of the season. He added three shots on goal in the loss and remains tied for the Moose lead at plus-three. Ford has 93 points (42G, 51A) in 176 AHL games and is in his fifth season with Manitoba.
There’s also a milestone looming for Henry Thrun. In his next game, he is expected to reach 200 regular season professional games.
That total includes 77 AHL appearances and 123 NHL games. Most of his NHL time came with the San Jose Sharks, though he also played four games with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2025-26.
In the AHL, he has 30 points (6G, 24A), and he has added 25 points (5G, 20A) in the NHL. Last season with the Toronto Marlies, Thrun played 55 regular season games and 24 more in the postseason, finishing with 34 points (7G, 27A) as part of a Calder Cup Championship.
This is Manitoba’s second back-to-back set of the season. The Moose beat Chicago 8-3 in the second game of a back-to-back on Oct. 4, and they’ll see the Wolves again tonight.
Chicago has not played since its trip to Winnipeg a week ago. In 2025-26, Manitoba went 12-7-3-0 in the second game of back-to-backs and was 7-3-3-0 in those games on the road.
Among returning players, Brayden Yager led the way in those situations with 11 points (3G, 8A), while Parker Ford had nine points (1G, 8A) in just 14 of those contests.
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