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2017-18 !!!!!CHICAGO!WOLVES ! GAME!NOTES CHICAGO at MILWAUKEE NOVEMBER 8, 2017 10:30 a.m. AHL LIVE 2017-18 WE>RE!NO@!A TALE!OF!THE!TAPE The Chicago Wolves come into Wednesday’s game versus the Milwaukee Admirals with the American 2017-18 REGULAR-SEASON SERIES Hockey League’s top penalty kill. Chicago is clicking along at a 90 percent success rate as Rocky 0-1-0-0 Milwaukee | 1-0-0-0 Chicago Thompson’s squad has allowed just four goals while being shorthanded a total of 40 times this season. The Wolves were 11 for 11 in their last two games, which includes an Oct. 28 contest against the LAST MEETING Oct. 28, 2017 then Central Division-leading Admirals in which they killed all five infractions en route to a 2-1 victory. LEAGUE!OF!GENTLEMEN So far during the 2017-18 American Hockey League campaign, the 30 teams have racked up a total of 6-4-0-0 4-4-1-0 5,008 penalty minutes — an average of 167 minutes per squad. However, the Chicago Wolves are the AHL’s least penalized team — and the only club with fewer than 100 minutes — with just 95 penalty SERIES LEADERBOARD minutes to their credit. Chicago boasts the second lowest minutes-per-game average with 10.56; only MILWAUKEE CHICAGO the Bakersfield Condors are better with a 10.50 average. Skater G A Pts Skater G A Pts Richard 1 0 1 Pulkkinen 1 0 1 Allard 0 1 1 Theodore 1 0 1 WEAKEST!LINK Barbashev 0 1 1 While the Chicago Wolves penalty kill is atop the American Hockey League, the club’s power play has Hyka 0 1 1 slipped in the rankings. Prior to Chicago’s last game on Nov. 3, the team’s power play was still among Tynan 0 1 1 the league’s top five units. However, after failing to net a man-advantage marker in four attempts on that date, the Wolves are now tied with the Rockford IceHogs for the No. 6 spot with a 19.6 percent GAME-BY-GAME success rate. The Wolves are just two for 19 — or 10.5 percent — on the power play in their last four Date Location Result SF-SA PP PK games. Oct. 28 Allstate Arena W, 2-1 23-28 0-4 5-5 Nov. 8 UWM Panther Arena - - - - Nov. 12 Allstate Arena - - - - Nov. 24 UWM Panther Arena - - - - NOVEMBER!SKID Dec. 17 Allstate Arena - - - - After opening the season with a four-game win streak and winning five of seven October games, the Dec. 27 UWM Panther Arena - - - - Milwaukee Admirals are off to a less-than-stellar start to November. Through the club’s first three Dec. 29 UWM Panther Arena - - - - contests of the month, they own a 1-2-0-0 record with a pair of losses courtesy of the reigning Calder Feb. 2 Allstate Arena - - - - Cup champion Grand Rapids Griffins. Milwaukee’s lone win of November was against the Rockford March 9 UWM Panther Arena - - - - IceHogs, with whom the Admirals are playing leapfrog for the Central Division’s top spot. April 3 Allstate Arena - - - - April 7 Allstate Arena - - - - April 10 UWM Panther Arena - - - - GAME!REWIND ALL-TIME RECORD FRIDAY, NOV. 3 CHICAGO 2, (at) GRAND RAPIDS 0 Season Home Road Season Home Road • The Wolves shut out the Griffins for the first time since Jan. 29, 2010, for the club’s first road 1994-95 0-1-2 1-2-1 2006-07 0-4-0-1 4-1-0-0 victory of the season. 1995-96 2-2-0 1-4-0 2007-08 3-2-0-0 3-1-1-0 • Michigan native Mackenzie MacEachern’s first-period goal served as the game-winner while 1996-97 4-2-0 1-2-1 2008-09 2-3-0-0 2-3-0-0 perennial 40-point scorer T.J. Tynan collected his first goal on the season with an empty-net 1997-98 3-2-0 4-3-0 2009-10 4-1-0-0 3-1-1-0 marker late in the third period. 1998-99 3-1-1 4-3-0 2010-11 3-1-0-1 3-2-0-0 • Goaltender Kasimir Kaskisuo posted 33 saves for his first victory with the Wolves. 1999-00 3-1-1 2-2-1 2011-12 3-1-1-1 3-3-0-0 2000-01 1-1-1 3-1-1 2012-13 1-3-0-2 1-5-0-0 2001-02 2-3-1-0 3-2-0-1 2013-14 4-0-1-1 4-1-0-1 SATURDAY, OCT. 28 (AT) CHICAGO 2, MILWAUKEE 1 2002-03 5-1-0-0 2-3-0-1 2014-15 4-0-1-0 4-2-1-0 2003-04 2-3-0-0 2-3-0-0 2015-16 3-3-0-1 0-4-1-0 • Chicago rallied in the third period with two goals 1:58 apart to capsize Milwaukee. 2004-05 3-2-0-0 1-4-0-0 2016-17 4-2-0-0 3-1-1-1 • Forward Teemu Pulkkinen and defenseman Shea Theodore each tallied for the Wolves. 2005-06 2-3-0-0 2-1-0-2 2017-18 1-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 • Goaltender C.J. Motte made 27 saves for his first victory in a Wolves sweater. Overall Record: 118-96-1-10-19 2017-18 !!!!!CHICAGO!WOLVES ! GAME!NOTES 2017-18 !!!!BY!THE!NUMBERS HOME-ROAD CONTRASTS In 2016-17, the Chicago Wolves and Milwaukee Admirals each posted a shutout in the 12- game season series — an impressive feat considering the teams combined for 71 goals and Home Away Difference Goals For 2.60 3.75 -1.15 H averaged nearly six goals per game. Additionally, seven of the dozen games were decided Goals Against 2.20 4.25 -2.05 by just one goal — including one of the shutouts — and three of those contests needed extra time for a winner to emerge. RECORD BY DIVISION The Chicago Wolves have earned all four of their wins when they allow opponents two Record Win % or fewer goals in a game. The Wolves recorded their first win of the season in the home Central 2-2-0-0 .500 IJ opener on Oct. 14 against the Ontario Reign, and in the contest, the Wolves scored five Pacific 2-2-1-0 .500 goals for the third consecutive game for a 5-2 victory. However, since that victory, Chicago has gained its victories by smaller margins with a pair of 2-1 wins and a 2-0 shutout. RECORD BY MONTH Record Win % Three goaltenders have helped the Chicago Wolves earn wins this season. Before being October 3-4-1-0 .438 recalled from loan on Oct. 22 — due to injuries to the three goaltenders before him — by the November 1-0-0-0 1.000 G Vegas Golden Knights, Max Lagace backstopped the Wolves for the first two victories of the December 0-0-0-0 .000 January 0-0-0-0 .000 season. That included a 5-2 victory over the Ontario Reign in the home opener on Oct. 14 and a 2-1 February 0-0-0-0 .000 victory on Oct. 22 to split the inaugural series at Allstate Arena with the Tucson Roadrunners. Five March 0-0-0-0 .000 days later, in his first start wearing a Wolves sweater, 25-year-old C.J. Motte made 27 saves en route April 0-0-0-0 .000 to a 2-1 victory against the Milwaukee Admirals. On Nov. 3, in his third start for the Wolves since being loaned from the Toronto Maple Leafs on Oct. 23, Kasimir Kaskisuo posted a 33-save shutout against IN OVERTIME (0-0-1) the reigning Calder Cup champion Grand Rapids Griffins. The shutout marked Kaskisuo’s second shutout in his 13-game American Hockey League career and the first time the Wolves shut out an Goaltender Saves-Shots SV% Oscar Dansk 4-5 .800 opponent since March 31 against the Iowa Wild at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. Max Lagace 0-0 .000 This season, the Chicago Wolves are averaging 3.11 goals per game. That’s only 0.19 less than last season’s 3.30 goals-per-game average that helped the Wolves IN THE SHOOTOUT (0-0) G@AA earn the division title. While a 3.11 average through nine games is solid — it’s good Shooter Goals-Chances SH% enough for the No. 15 spot among 30 AHL teams — it’s exactly the same average number of goals the 0-0 .000 team gives up per game. 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 Nine skaters have been a part of all four Chicago Wolves wins this season. Forwards Tomas Goaltender Saves-Shots SV% Hyka, Tobias Lindberg, Mackenzie MacEachern, Stefan Matteau, Teemu Pulkkinen, Paul Oscar Dansk 0-0 .000 K Thompson and T.J. Tynan as well as defensemen Jake Bischoff and Petteri Lindbohm have Max Lagace 0-0 .000 all been active for Chicago’s four victories. Seven of the nine — Bischoff, Hyka, Lindbohm, Matteau, Pulkkinen, Thompson and Tynan — have skated in all nine Wolves games this season. Lindberg and RECORD BREAKDOWN MacEachern have appeared in six (4-2-0-0) and seven (4-3-0-0) games, respectively, and are the only two Wolves players to own a record better than .500 while contributing to all four victories. When the Wolves... Record score four or more goals 1-1-1-0 allow two or fewer goals 4-0-0-0 outshoot their opponent 2-2-1-0 UPCOMING!GAMES score first 3-0-1-0 Date Opponent Venue Time score a power-play goal 1-3-1-0 Saturday, Nov.