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2017-18 !!!!!CHICAGO!WOLVES ! GAME!NOTES CHICAGO at MANITOBA NOVEMBER 15, 2017 7 p.m. AHL LIVE 2017-18 JUST!A!PHASE TALE!OF!THE!TAPE The Chicago Wolves come into tonight’s game looking to snap a three-game winless streak that began Nov. 8 with a shutout loss to the Milwaukee Admirals. The streak is the longest of any kind for the 2017-18 REGULAR-SEASON SERIES Wolves this season. During the 2016-17 campaign, the Wolves endured a few winless streaks. Through 1-0-0-0 Manitoba | 0-1-0-0 Chicago five separate streaks — the longest being five games from March 17-25 — Chicago lost a total of 19 games...all to Central Division opponents. While the Wolves had their share of losses last season, the LAST MEETING Oct. 25, 2017 club still captured the division title for its sixth since joining the American Hockey League in 2001. BEAU!IS!BACK On Tuesday, the Chicago Wolves announced the return of right wing Beau Bennett. The 25-year- old began the 2017-18 American Hockey League season with the Wolves and appeared in five games 8-5-1-1 4-7-1-0 before being recalled from loan by the St. Louis Blues on Oct. 23. Bennett skated in six games with SERIES LEADERBOARD the Blues, including his 200th career National Hockey League game on Nov. 13 against the Calgary MANITOBA CHICAGO Flames. Until this season, the California native had skated exclusively for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Skater G A Pts Skater G A Pts Penguins at the AHL level. Selected 20th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2010 NHL Draft, Appleton 0 2 2 Barbashev 1 0 1 Bennett remains the highest-drafted California-born player to date. Cormier 1 0 1 Hyka 0 1 1 Robinson 1 0 1 Megan 0 1 1 Roslovic 1 0 1 Several at 0 HOMECOMING Four at 0 1 1 This week marks Winnipeg native Keegan Kolesar’s initial trip to his hometown as a professional player. After skating four seasons in the Western Hockey League and getting traded to the Vegas GAME-BY-GAME Golden Knights ahead of the 2017 NHL Draft, Kolesar made his professional debut with the Wolves Date Location Result SF-SA PP PK on Oct. 6 against Texas Stars at H-E-B Center. Despite a three-game detour to the ECHL — where he Oct. 25 Allstate Arena L, 1-3 37-26 0-7 3-4 averaged a point per game with the Quad City Mallards — Kolesar has appeared in all but two games Nov. 15 Bell MTS Place - - - - this season for the Wolves. He has yet to score a point, however. He is the only player to appear in at Nov. 17 Bell MTS Place - - - - least 10 games for Chicago without a point. Jan. 5 Allstate Arena - - - - Feb. 24 Bell MTS Place - - - - Feb. 25 Bell MTS Place - - - - A few other Wolves aren’t far from home: Keith Aulie (Rouleau, Sask.), Bryce Gervais (Battleford, March 10 Allstate Arena - - - - Sask.) and Kenney Morrison (Lloydminster, Alta.) are all within 1,000 kilometers of their hometowns. April 15 Allstate Arena - - - - Aulie’s hometown, Rouleau, is the closest at just 555 kilometers while Morrison’s hometown, Lloydminster, is the farthest of the group at 964 kilometers — and two provinces. 2016-17 GAME-BY-GAME Date Location Result SF-SA PP PK Nov. 27 Allstate Arena L, 1-2 27-28 0-3 3-5 GAME!REWIND Jan. 13 MTS Centre W, 4-2 36-37 1-4 3-4 SUNDAY, NOV. 12 MILWAUKEE 3, (AT) CHICAGO 2 Jan. 15 MTS Centre L, 1-4 44-20 0-6 1-2 • Milwaukee edged Chicago for the second time in as many head-to-head games. March 5 Allstate Arena W, 5-4 39-41 2-7 2-4 • Forwards Brandon Pirri and Paul Thompson scored for the Wolves. • Right wing Pontus Åberg netted two tallies while Petter Granberg collected the game-winner. ALL-TIME RECORD BREAKDOWN • Wolves goaltender C.J. Motte turned aside 20 shots while Anders Lindback made 27 saves in the Season Home Road Season Home Road win. 1994-95 0-1-0 0-1-0 2004-05 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 1995-96 1-1-1 2-2-0 2005-06 0-1-1-0 1-1-0-0 1996-97 4-0-1 3-2-0 2006-07 1-1-0-0 1-1-0-0 SATURDAY, NOV. 11 SAN ANTONIO 2, (AT) CHICAGO 1 1997-98 3-1-0 4-0-0 2007-08 1-0-1-0 1-1-0-0 • San Antonio ended its Central Division demolition with its third victory in five road games against 1998-99 0-0-2 2-3-0 2008-09 1-1-0-0 1-0-1-0 Central Division opponents. 1999-00 3-1-1 4-1-0 2009-10 0-1-0-1 0-2-0-0 2000-01 3-1-0 4-2-0 2010-11 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 • Center Brandon Pirri netted his first goal in his second game back from injury to end the Wolves’ 2001-02 0-3-0-1 1-1-2-0 2015-16 4-0-0-0 2-1-1-0 71-minute, 24-second scoreless streak. 2002-03 2-0-0-0 0-2-0-0 2016-17 1-1-0-0 1-1-0-0 • Former Wolves forwards Andrew Agozzino and Adam Musil both scored for the victory. 2003-04 2-0-0-0 1-0-1-0 2017-18 0-1-0-0 0-0-0-0 • Chicago netminder Kasimir Kaskisuo made 18 saves. Overall Record: 60-37-3-5-6 2017-18 !!!!!CHICAGO!WOLVES ! GAME!NOTES 2017-18 !!!!BY!THE!NUMBERS HOME-ROAD CONTRASTS With the secondary assist on Brandon Pirri’s goal at 7:55 of the second period in Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Milwaukee Admirals, defenseman Petteri Lindbohm captured his first point of the Home Away Difference 2017-18 season. The 24-year-old is one of seven skaters to appear in all 12 games this season and Goals For 2.29 3.00 -0.71 E Goals Against 2.29 4.00 -1.71 was the final one of the bunch to collect a point on the season. While Lindbohm hadn’t been showing up on the scoresheet, he has been a physical force when necessary and manned the blue line as one of the Chicago Wolves’ top four defensemen. RECORD BY DIVISION Record Win % On Nov. 8, center Brandon Pirri returned to the Chicago Wolves lineup after missing six Central 2-4-0-0 .333 games due to injury. Since his return, Pirri has two goals in his last two games and is second Pacific 2-3-1-0 .417 F — only behind Teemu Pulkkinen — with a point-per-game average through six contests. With the Wolves only averaging 2.58 goals per game, the team will be looking for Pirri to keep his scoring streak alive. RECORD BY MONTH Record Win % One of the Wolves’ two major penalties this season occurred at the 20-minute mark of the October 3-4-1-0 .438 first period in Sunday’s contest against the Milwaukee Admirals. Wolves forward Mackenzie November 1-3-0-0 .250 D MacEachern twice hit Milwaukee defenseman Trevor Murphy in the dwindling seconds of play. December 0-0-0-0 .000 Murphy took exception and dropped his gloves. The fight was the first of MacEachern’s professional January 0-0-0-0 .000 career and just the second since his junior days with the Chicago Steel in the United States Hockey February 0-0-0-0 .000 League. In the three seasons the Michigan native skated for the Michigan State Spartans, he was March 0-0-0-0 .000 April 0-0-0-0 .000 never assessed either a major penalty or a fighting infraction. Just seven skaters have appeared in all 12 Chicago Wolves games this season. Forwards IN OVERTIME (0-0-1) Tomas Hyka, Teemu Pulkkinen, Paul Thompson, T.J. Tynan and Stefan Matteau as well as defensemen Jake Bischoff and Petteri Lindbohm have appeared in every Wolves Goaltender Saves-Shots SV% EF Oscar Dansk 4-5 .800 contest thus far this season. Those seven players have accounted for 45.6 percent of the Wolves Max Lagace 0-0 .000 scoring this season. The Chicago Wolves have been tame this season and have just 130 penalty minutes IN THE SHOOTOUT (0-0) — the least of any American Hockey League team — to show for it. Through a dozen games, the Wolves are averaging just 10.83 penalty minutes per game, which is Shooter Goals-Chances SH% EGH 0-0 .000 the third-lowest in the league. Additionally, the Wolves have 62 infractions and only two of those are 0-0 .000 majors. Chicago has yet to incur any misconduct or match penalties. 0-0 .000 Sunday’s game against the Milwaukee Admirals marked defenseman Petteri Goaltender Saves-Shots SV% Lindbohm’s 200th professional game. Drafted by the St. Louis Blues in 2012, Oscar Dansk 0-0 .000 FHH Lindbohm has skated in 40 National Hockey League games. The majority of Max Lagace 0-0 .000 his professional contests have been at the American Hockey League level and all 160 of them have been in a Chicago Wolves sweater. Over the course of four seasons, the Helsinki, Finland native has collected 46 points (17G, 29A) and logged 176 penalty minutes. Lindbohm twice has skated in the RECORD BREAKDOWN Calder Cup Playoffs (2015, 2017) with the Wolves and appeared in 14 games.