Riding high after a pair of improbable wins on the road, the San Diego Seals (3-3) will return to Pechanga Arena, aka “The Electric Factory,” to host the Philadelphia Wings (1-5) this Friday, Jan. 30, on Heroes Night presented by Alaska Airlines. It’s the back-half of a home-and-home against the Wings and the team will pay tribute to active duty, retired military and veterans. Faceoff is set for 7:30 p.m. PT and to commemorate Heroes Night, the Seals are donating 1,500 tickets to military members and their families within the San Diego community, ensuring those who serve are celebrated in the stands.
Tickets for Friday night’s game against Philadelphia start at just $22 and are on sale at https://sealslax.com/. The Seals have also teamed up with SeaWorld San Diego for a special Heroes Night Bundle that is available exclusively to Active Duty, Retired Military, Veterans, and their immediate family members. Priced at just $55, it includes a ticket to Friday night’s Heroes Night game against the Wings, one drink voucher valid for a beer, soft drink or water, redeemable at the game, and a single day admission ticket to SeaWorld San Diego, anytime between January 31 to March 31, 2026.
The Seals, who found themselves 1-3 to open the season, won their last two in improbable fashion to even their record at 3-3. Two weeks ago, the team ran into travel troubles with more than half of the team’s players not arriving into Vancouver until the morning of the game and much of the team’s travel gear, including goaltender Chris Origlieri’s goalie gear, not making it to Vancouver in time for the game. Despite the hurdles, the Seals pulled off a 11-9 victory over the previously 3-1 Warriors behind a huge effort from Origlieri, who stopped 41 of the 50 shots that he faced, and held off a furious Vancouver comeback late in the contest. The Seals also got a balanced effort on offense with Tre Leclaire, Pat Kavanagh, Dylan Watson and Zach Currier each scoring twice, while Trevor Baptiste continued his dominance in the faceoff circle, winning 19 of the game’s 24 faceoffs.
Then this past Friday in Philadelphia, the Seals found themselves in a 5-1 hole deep into the third period before outscoring the Wings 7-2 over the final 20:48 to come away with the win. Ben McIntosh, in his first game back off a three-game stint on injured-reserve, delivered a game-leading three goals on the night, while Origlieri was incredible in net, stopping 35 of the Wings’ 42 shot attempts, a .833 save percentage. Connor Robinson had two goals and an assist, while Wes Berg, who collected his 700th career point during the game, and Watson each had a goal and three assists. Zach Currier also had a big night for the Seals, recording a season-high four forced turnovers, a game-high 11 loose balls recovered, a game-tying goal and two assists.
Fourteen different players have scored goals for the Seals this season, led by forwards Tre Leclaire (14), Wes Berg (8) and Dylan Watson (7). And the Seals have given themselves plenty of opportunities to score this season as Baptiste leads the NLL in both faceoff win percentage (82%) and faceoff wins (128). Defensively, transition specialist Zach Currier leads the Seals with 67 loose balls secured and 11 forced turnovers, while defensemen Danny Logan and Matt Wright are just one off the pace with six takeaways apiece.
Broadcast Information
For Seals fans unable to make it to Pechanga Arena on Friday night, the game will be broadcast locally in San Diego on Spectrum Cable Channel 4 and streamed to a global audience on ESPN+.
Regular-Season Milestones on the Horizon
Wes Berg (289 career goals) needs 11 more to reach 300 for his career.
Berg (685 career loose ball recoveries) needs just 15 more to reach 700 for his career.
Trevor Baptiste has 1,750 career faceoff wins, seventh-most in NLL history. With 25 more he’ll pass Peter Jacobs (1,774) for sixth all-tine in NLL annals.
Baptiste has played in 96 career games and needs to play in four more to reach 100 career games played.
Eli Gobrecht has 90 career forced turnovers and needs just 10 more to reach 100.
Corey Small has scored 955 career points on 421 career goals and 534 career assists. He needs 45 more points to reach 1,000. He ranks 19th all-time in NLL annals in points scored
Zach Currier has 189 career points on 67 goals and 122 assists. He needs 11 more points to reach 200 for his career.
Ben McIntosh has scored 339 career goals and needs 11 more to reach 350 for his career.
Connor Robinson has 287 career points on 129 goals and 158 assists. He needs just 13 more points to reach 300 for his career.
Seals-Wings Head-to-Head
Following last Friday night’s loss to the Seals in Philadelphia, the Wings come into this Friday’s contest at 1-5. They beat Colorado 8-7 in their season opener on Dec. 13, but they’ve lost their last five, falling to Rochester twice and Ottawa, Las Vegas and the Seals once. Despite losing five straight, all five of the games have been close as the Wings have only been outscored by 13 goals (63-50) in those five games.
This will be the sixth all-time regular season meeting between the Seals and Wings and the Seals now hold a 4-1 series edge. The Seals are 2-1 in regular season meetings in San Diego and 2-0 when the teams have met in Philadelphia. The teams also met once in the postseason in the first round of the 2021-22 NLL Playoffs, a game won by the Seals, 9-8, at Pechanga Arena.
A Look Back at Last Week’s Contest
The Seals spent their second consecutive week on the road and came away with a nearly improbable 9-7 win at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia behind a big effort from Ben McIntosh, who returned from a three-game stint on injured-reserve to deliver a game-leading three goals on the night.
It took nearly three full quarters for the Seals to find their footing offensively, but once they did, they outscored Philadelphia 7-2 over the final 20:48 to steal the win.
It was a second consecutive win for the Seals, who evened their record on the season at 3-3. The Seals also improved their road record on the season to a perfect 3-0.
The game was a tale of two halves and though close, Philadelphia controlled the game’s opening 30 minutes as they jumped out to a 4-1 lead. It doesn’t happen often and it was the first time it happened this season, but the Wings held the Seals scoreless in the game’s opening quarter. The last regular season game that the Seals went scoreless in a quarter was nearly a year ago, Feb. 21, 2025 in a game against Saskatchewan. Joe Resetarits and Brennan O'Neill both scored for Philadelphia in the first quarter with Resetarits’ goal coming on a power play.
It didn’t take long for the Seals to break the scoring drought in the second quarter with Wes Berg doing so 1:19 in, beating Wings goalie Nick Damude to the stick side. The Wings would outscore the Seals 2-1 in the second quarter with goals by Michael Sowers and Resetarits once again on the power play.
It took until 5:48 remained in the third quarter but the Seals finally got their second goal of the night on a diving shot by McIntosh off a great feed from Berg during a power play. The assist was the 700th point of Berg’s highly-decorated career and it came on McIntosh’s first goal of the season and in his first game since Dec. 14th as he’d missed the Seals’ last three contests due to injury.
After taking 39:12 seconds of game time to get their second goal, it took the Seals just 56 seconds to get their third as Connor Robinson took a pass from Pat Kavanagh and scored from just inside the restraining line and what had been a 5-1 Philadelphia lead was suddenly cut in half to 5-3.
Philadelphia would quiet the Seals run with a goal by Eric Fannell less than a minute later, but the Seals came right back with a goal of their own just 26 seconds following as McIntosh took a behind-the-back pass from Tre Leclaire for his second of the quarter to once again make it a two-goal game, 6-4. Then with 1:24 left in the third quarter, Dylan Watson hauled in a loose ball in front of the net and beat Damude for his first of the night to make it a 6-5 game going into the fourth.
Thirty-eight seconds into the fourth quarter, the Seals came all the way back to tie the game when Zach Currier, who earlier in the contest had a goal wiped away due to a crease violation, showed some nifty stickwork to beat Damude for the game-tying goal. Brennan O’Neill, the first overall pick in the 2024 NLL Draft, gave the Wings the lead back on a goal 57 seconds later but that lead would last just 10 seconds as off the ensuing faceoff, Robinson took a pass from Currier as he took the field from the bench and beat Damude low to tie the game once again at 7-7.
The game remained tied 7-7 for nearly five minutes until the 8:33 mark, which is when Robinson found Leclaire, who popped out from behind the net for a point blank goal and Robinson was cross-checked as he delivered the pass and the Seals went straight from a goal to a two-minute power play with their first lead of the night, 8-7. The Seals weren’t able to take advantage of the power play from the Robinson hit but less than three minutes later, Berg drew a holding penalty against the Wings and 15 seconds after Philadelphia’s Chris Corbeil was sent to the penalty box, Berg found McIntosh in front of the net and McIntosh scored his third of the night to give the Seals their final goal in the 9-7 win.
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