With one win in the books, there’s only one more to go. Ontario claimed their first victory of the 2024 postseason with a 5-1 victory over Bakersfield in Game One of their opening round series.
Another week has passed and it’s time for our LA Kings weekly prospect update. This week’s update was highlighted by Erik Portillo. Portillo made one start for the Ontario Reign during the week and stopped 32 of 35 shots for his 20th win of the season in the Reign’s 4-3 victory over the Bakersfield Condors.
There might have been snow on the ground Sunday when Ontario visited a divisional rival in Calgary, but nothing appeared to be cooling down the red-hot Reign as they chased their seventh win in a row.
Kicking off the first of a four-game homestand, the Reign were visited by their upstate Barracuda neighbors, who sit snugly on the floor of the Pacific Division standings.
Returning to San Diego to face their longtime rivals for the first time since late December, the Reign skated to a 3-2 win over the Gulls on Saturday night.
For the finale of this weekend’s back-to-back set in Tucson, perhaps the biggest question on Reign coach Marco Sturm’s mind is — ‘Can my team simply repeat
If there’s anything a slumping team battling injuries could ever need, it’s a two-week period with only one game, a lot of rest, and some good old-fashioned practice.
After acquiring his rights during the week of the trade deadline last year, Erik Portillo has shown signs of growth with the Ontario Reign. Stat line: 12-8-1, 2.60 GAA, .918 save percentage, and two shutouts When acquiring Portillo’s rights, the Kings envisioned him as their future goalie.
Ontario Reign goaltender Erik Portillo joins host Jesse Cohen to talk about his first season with the Reign. The pair discuss Portillo’s evolution as a professional, his relationship with the goalie coach Adam Brown and how he’s adapting to life in Southern California.
For the second game in a row, Ontario found themselves in an early 3-0 deficit to crawl out from on Tuesday night. They would rally a two-goal effort to bring the score to 3-2 in the middle frame for just one minute before surrendering a goal on the penalty kill late in the period.
In the first night of a back-to-back road series against the Pacific Division leading Tucson Roadrunners, the Ontario Reign leaned on their power play to defeat the home team 5-1.
Forward Samuel Fagemo and goaltender Erik Portillo join Jared Shafran and Josh Schaefer on a brand new episode of The Reign Check. Fagemo and Portillo are both from Goteborg Sweden.
How about this strange factoid — the Ontario Reign and Coachella Valley Firebirds have played three times this season, every game has ended in a shutout.
With training camp just around the corner, we are previewing each player on the LA Kings roster. Up next: Erik Portillo! Birthdate: September 3, 2000 Birthplace:
Thanks to years of solid drafting and tons of capital to work with, the Los Angeles Kings still are in the upper half of the league – in terms of competitiveness and future potential.
The disappointment of getting booted in the first round by the Edmonton Oilers stings, but the Kings clearly are on the upswing, particularly after acquiring Pierre-Luc Dubois from the Winnipeg Jets.
On Saturday afternoon, the LA Kings announced that they signed goaltending prospect Erik Portillo to a two-year entry-level contract. Per the LA Kings, the contract goes through next season (2023-2024) and has an annual average value of $875,000.
On Monday morning the Ontario Reign announced that they signed goaltending prospect Erik Portillo to an ATO. Portillo, 22, just finished his junior season at Michigan, posting a record of 25-11-2, a 3.00 GAA, and a .908 save percentage for the 2022-2023 season.
Portillo is a 22-year-old goalie prospect who was originally selected by the Sabres in the third round of the 2019 NHL Draft.
The Buffalo Sabres have traded the rights to University of Michigan netminder Erik Portillo to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for a 2023 third-round pick.
Here are 10 prospects who could be on the move ahead of the trade deadline as contending clubs look to add the missing piece they hope could carry them to a Stanley Cup.
Erik Portillo’s rights are currently held by the Buffalo Sabres and he has the option to become an unrestricted free agent this summer according to Jeff Marek on the 32 Thoughts Podcast.
The Michigan star emerges as a shot of roster depth (if he signs). The Top 25 Under 25 is a collaboration by members of the Die By The Blade community.
It turns out playoff hockey, no matter the level it’s at, is best won by teams that are willing to play hard, heavy and disciplined. That turned out to be the case at the Men’s Frozen Four in Boston.
Buffalo is still in a complete rebuild, and getting a top young goalie such as Luukkonen valuable NHL experience sooner rather than later, especially as he proves himself in the AHL, can only serve to benefit the organization long-term (and maybe even short-term, too.)
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