Cyclones vs Kalamazoo Wings Season Finale

The Cincinnati Cyclones closed their 2025-26 season Saturday with a 4-1 home loss to the Kalamazoo Wings at Heritage Bank Center. (echl.com) The game was part of Cincinnati’s final weekend of the regular season and was listed among local events for April 13-19 in The Cincinnati Enquirer’s weekly guide. The ECHL schedule showed puck drop at 4:05 p.m. Eastern on April 18. (cincinnati.com) (echl.com) Kalamazoo outshot Cincinnati 31-27 and built a 3-0 lead before the Cyclones scored in the third period. Quinn Preston opened the scoring in the first period, and the Wings added two more goals in the second. (echl.com) The result finished Cincinnati’s season at 35-32-4-1, according to the Cyclones’ official recap published April 18. The team called it the close of the 2025-26 campaign. (cycloneshockey.com) The matchup also capped a late-season run of games between the same clubs. Six days earlier, on April 12, Kalamazoo beat Cincinnati 2-1 at Wings Event Center in Michigan. (echl.com) That scheduling was built into the league calendar months ago. The ECHL’s 2025-26 schedule release placed Cincinnati and Kalamazoo together in the Central Division and set April games as part of the regular-season finish. (echl.com) For fans in Cincinnati, the April 18 game landed as both a sports event and a season endpoint. The Kalamazoo Wings’ game page listed the same opponent, date, time and venue from the visiting team’s side. (kwings.com) By Sunday, April 19, the league schedule had moved on to other finales, with Kalamazoo set to play at Fort Wayne while Cincinnati’s season was already over. The Cyclones opened the weekend as a local attraction; they ended it with the books closed on 72 regular-season games. (echl.com) (cycloneshockey.com)