The Ontario Reign are a professional ice hockey team based in Ontario, California. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. The team plays its home games at the Toyota Arena.
The franchise is a relocation of the former Manchester Monarchs AHL franchise when several other franchises created a Pacific Division in 2015. The team is owned by the Anschutz Entertainment Group. The Reign replaced the ECHL team of the same name, which played from 2008 until 2015, after which they moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, to play as the Manchester Monarchs.
History On January 29, 2015, the Los Angeles Kings announced that they would be moving their AHL affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs, to Ontario as one of five charter members of the AHL's new Pacific Division. The team retained the Reign nickname from its ECHL predecessor (which moved to Manchester and took on the Monarchs moniker, in essentially a "franchise swap"). The Reign's AHL logo, based on the Kings' late 1980s-early 1990s "Chevy" logo, was unveiled on Wednesday, February 11. The franchise retained head coach Mike Stothers during the move from Manchester.
In its inaugural season in California, the Reign won the first Pacific Division regular season title with a 44–19–4–1 record. Goaltender Peter Budaj was named to the 2015–16 AHL First All-Star Team and was selected as the league top goaltender with the Baz Bastien Memorial Award. Sean Backman lead the team in scoring with 21 goals and 34 assists while playing all 68 games for the Reign. The Reign would also win the division in the playoffs, defeating the San Jose Barracuda three-games-to-one and the San Diego Gulls four-games-to-one. In the conference finals, the Reign were swept by the eventual Calder Cup champion Lake Erie Monsters in four games.
During the next season in 2016–17, due to goaltender injuries and call-ups for their parent club, the Los Angeles Kings, the Reign ended up using a Canadian father-son duo Dusty and Jonah Imoo during a game in October 2016. Dusty Imoo (age 46) was a goaltending consultant with the Kings. Jonah (age 22) made his AHL debut on a tryout contract. Both the Imoos had grown up in Surrey, British Columbia. By the end of the season, the Reign qualified for the playoffs in third place in the Pacific Division, losing in the first round to San Diego.
The 2019–20 season was curtailed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. During the offseason, Stothers' contract was not renewed and was replaced by John Wroblewski as the new head coach. Approaching the delayed 2020–21 season, the Reign announced they would temporarily relocate and play out of the Kings' practice rink, Toyota Sports Center, in El Segundo due to pandemic-related restrictions. The Sports Center hosted all the Reign's home games closed to spectators.
Marco Sturm was named the Reign’s new head coach prior to the 2022–23 season and would lead the team to three consecutive trips to the Calder Cup Playoffs before being hired as head coach of the Boston Bruins on June 5, 2025. Andrew Lord succeeded Sturm and coached the Reign to a first-place finish in the Pacific Division in 2025–26.
On June 13, 2026, the Reign unveiled a new logo and jerseys, moving from a black-and-silver color scheme to primarily purple ("Inland Blue") and gold ("Empire Gold") as well as a redo of the Kings crown but with several motor motifs to pay tribute to the Ontario Motor Speedway that Toyota Arena was built on the site of.
Season-by-season records
Regular seasonPlayoffs Season GP W L OTL SOL Pts PCT GF GA Standing Year Prelims 1st round 2nd round 3rd round Finals2015–16 68 44 19 4 1 93 .684 192 138 1st, Pacific 2016 — W, 3–1, SJ W, 4–1, SD L, 0–4, LE —2016–17 68 36 21 10 1 83 .610 199 190 3rd, Pacific 2017 — L, 2–3, SD — — —2017–18 68 36 25 4 3 79 .581 200 194 3rd, Pacific 2018 — L, 1–3, TEX — — —2018–19 68 25 33 6 4 60 .441 213 274 7th, Pacific 2019 Did not qualify2019–20 57 29 22 5 1 64 .561 166 198 5th, Pacific 2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic2020–21 40 17 19 4 0 38 .475 136 149 6th, Pacific 2021 — OTL, 4–5, COL — — —2021–22 68 41 18 5 4 91 .669 259 219 2nd, Pacific 2022 W, 2–0, SD L, 0–3, COL — — —2022–23 72 34 32 5 1 74 .514 206 211 6th, Pacific 2023 L, 0–2, COL — — — —2023–24 72 42 23 3 4 91 .632 231 198 3rd, Pacific 2024 W, 2–0, BAK W, 3–0, ABB L, 0–3, CV — —2024–25 72 43 25 3 1 90 .625 225 207 3rd, Pacific 2025 L, 0–2, SJ — — — —2025–26 72 47 20 3 2 99 .688 237 187 1st, Pacific 2026 BYE L, 2–3, CV — — —
Players
Current roster Updated October 5, 2026.
Team captains
Vincent LoVerde, 2015–17 Brett Sutter, 2017–22 T.J. Tynan, 2022–24 Joe Hicketts, 2024–present
American Hockey League Hall of Famers AHL Hall of Fame Honored Members Name Seasons Induction Year Michael Leighton 2018-19 (player) 2025
References
External links Ontario Reign official website