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. Sean Backman lead the team in scoring with 21 goals and 34 assists while playing all 68 games for the Reign. 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. In its inaugural season in California, the Reign won the first Pacific Division regular season title with a 44–19–4–1 record. The franchise retained head coach Mike Stothers during the move from Manchester. The Reign's AHL logo, based on the Kings' 1980s-90s " Chevy" logo, was unveiled on Wednesday, February 11. The team retained the Reign nickname from its ECHL predecessor (which moved to Manchester and take on the Monarchs moniker, in essentially a "franchise swap"). 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 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. The team is owned by the Anschutz Entertainment Group. The franchise is a relocation of the former Manchester Monarchs AHL franchise when several other franchises created a Pacific Division in 2015. Based in Ontario, California, and affiliated with the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings, the team plays its home games at the Toyota Arena. The Ontario Reign are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) that began play in the 2015–16 season. For the former ECHL team that played from 2008 to 2015, see Ontario Reign (ECHL).
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