Overview
- Glenn Gawdin scored 17 seconds into overtime to finish a 3-2 victory that secured Ontario’s second regular-season Pacific crown.
- Erik Portillo backstopped the clincher with 27 saves, while Coachella Valley turned to Logan Terness, who flew in from the ECHL’s Kansas City club to start in goal.
- One night earlier, 20-year-old Hampton Slukynsky won his AHL debut with 21 saves in a 4-1 home win that set a single-season franchise mark at 45 victories.
- The home-and-home sweep over the Firebirds pushed Ontario to 46 wins and extended the team’s late-season surge.
- It is the Reign’s first division title since 2015–16, and they shift to a first-round bye before hosting Abbotsford on April 17.