2020-21 Chicago Wolves Game Notes CHICAGO AT IOWA APRIL 9, 2021 7 P.M. AHLTV.COM JEANNOT APPROACHES HISTORY 2020-21 The Chicago Wolves opened an extended stretch on the road — eight out of nine games away from TALE OF THE TAPE home between April 7 and April 26 — with a 4-3 loss to the Rockford IceHogs. REGULAR-SEASON SERIES The result snapped the Wolves’ six-game winning streak overall as well as an eight-game winning 0-4-0-0 Iowa | 4-0-0-0 Chicago streak against the IceHogs that stretched back to Feb. 23, 2020. LAST MEETING March 14, 2021 While the final score wasn’t desirable, Wolves forward Tanner Jeannot continued his climb toward a spot in the franchise’s history books. Early in the second period, the 23-year-old from Saskatchewan set up a Phil Tomasino goal to push his point streak to 12 games. Not only does that rank as the American Hockey League’s top active streak, it ties for the longest Wolves streak since Jason Krog 8-9-3-0 14-3-0-1 posted a 14-game run (9G, 22A) in 2007-08 on the way to the AHL’s Most Valuable Player award and the Calder Cup championship. SERIES LEADERS Early in the third period, Tomasino repaid the favor as he delivered a perfect pass to enable Jeannot ROCKFORD CHICAGO to score a goal for his eighth game in a row. That ties Jeannot with Wolves all-time goal-scorer Steve Skater G A Pts Skater G A Pts Maltais for the second-longest goal streak in franchise annals — as Maltais came through with 10 Giroux 1 1 2 Jeannot 3 6 9 goals in eight games from Jan. 30 to Feb. 16, 1999. Dumont 0 2 2 x Novak 2 6 8 Mayhew/McLain 1 0 1 x Geekie 4 1 5 If Jeannot scores tonight, then he ties Brett Sterling for the Wolves record. Sterling racked up 13 Shaw/Sokolov 1 0 1 Lajoie/Warsofsky 1 4 5 goals over a nine-game stretch from Dec. 2 to Dec. 29, 2006, on his way to AHL Rookie of the Year and First All-Star Team honors. SERIES GAME-BY-GAME Date Location Result SF-SA PP PK In addition, a Jeannot goal tonight would tie him with Norfolk’s Tyler Johnson for the longest AHL Feb. 20 Wolves Training Facility W, 10-2 43-37 2-6 6-6 goal streak over the last 11 seasons. Johnson’s run of nine straight March 3-24, 2002, came during the Feb. 21 Wolves Training Facility W, 4-1 14-41 1-4 4-4 heart of Norfolk’s professional-hockey record 28-game winning streak. March 13 Wells Fargo Arena W, 4-0 38-31 2-5 7-7 March 14 Wells Fargo Arena W, 6-2 29-31 3-4 3-3 OTHERS ARE RED-HOT, TOO April 9 Wells Fargo Arena When your team averages an AHL-best 4.44 goals per game — at least one goal per game more than April 10 Wells Fargo Arena 6 p.m. every AHL team except Utica, Syracuse and Cleveland — a lot of guys deserve credit for the offensive April 30 Wolves Training Facility 7 p.m. prowess. May 1 Wolves Training Facility 7 p.m. Rookie forward Dominik Bokk, for example, has reeled off six goals in the last eight games after ALL-TIME RECORD BREAKDOWN going without a goal in his first eight professional games in North America. He has become much Seasons Home Road Overall more aggressive as well — firing 29 shots in his last eight games after taking just 11 shots in his first 2013-21 21-8-2-1 24-6-3-1 45-14-5-2 eight. Rookie forward Phil Tomasino rides a four-game point streak into tonight’s contest that features one WE ARE THE WOLVES goal and six assists. On the AHL’s rookie scoring list, the 19-year-old shares third place with 18 points When the St. Louis Blues hosted the Vegas Golden (6G, 12A) alongside Ontario’s Quinton Byfield and Arthur Kaliyev. Knights on Wednesday night, former Wolves played a LAST TWO GAMES big role on both sides. Goaltender Jordan Binnington, who ranks among WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7 (AT) ROCKFORD 4, CHICAGO 3 the top four in Wolves history for wins (59), games • Former Wolves forward Brandon Pirri registered his first AHL hat trick since accomplishing for (119), saves (3,079) and minutes (6,839), racked up a Chicago at Rockford in Dec. 2018 as the IceHogs snapped the Wolves’ six-game winning streak. career-high 50 saves while leading the Blues to a 3-1 • Forward Tanner Jeannot extended his goal streak to eight games and point streak to 12 while victory. rookie Phil Tomasino posted three points (G, 2A) and Dominik Bokk scored a power-play goal. • Goaltender Beck Warm stopped 13 shots in his first action since March 13. Backing up Binnington’s big night was defenseman SATURDAY, APRIL 3 (AT) CHICAGO 4, ROCKFORD 2 Jake Walman, who produced his first NHL goal at 13:31 • Forward Tanner Jeannot’s power-play goal in the final minute of the second period broke a tie of the third while playing in his 12th NHL game. and wound up as the game-winning goal as the Wolves won for the sixth game in a row. Walman first goal. Walman scored his first AHL goal on • Forwards Dominik Bokk and David Cotton scored goals to help the Wolves keep pace early, then April 2, 2017 in his second AHL game. Jeannot scored for the seventh game in a row and Cole Smith added a late empty-netter. Binnington would’ve had a shutout, but former Wolves • Goaltender Devin Cooley posted 31 saves to pick up second win over Rockford in two starts. center Nicolas Roy broke it up with 4:16 to play. 2020-21 Chicago Wolves Game Notes 2020-21 BY THE NUMBERS HOME-ROAD CONTRASTS Regular Season Home Away Difference If the Wolves play all 33 games on their current regular-season schedule, this season will Goals For 4.82 3.86 0.96 only be 43 percent as long as a normal American Hockey League slate. But after providing Goals Against 2.36 2.86 0.50 1 that caveat, it’s still impressive that this year’s squad is well on its way to shattering the franchise record for most goals per game. These Wolves have scored 80 goals in 18 games — a RECORD BY OPPONENT league-leading average of 4.44 per outing. The only Wolves team that has averaged more than 4 per Record Win % game is the 2006-07 crew that paced the AHL with 4.14 per game. Cleveland 0-1-0-1 .250 Grand Rapids 4-1-0-0 .800 Defenseman David Warsofsky wears No. 5, but he’s also riding a five-game point streak Iowa 4-0-0-0 1.000 that began the last time the Wolves showed up in Des Moines. Warsofsky, the point man Rockford 6-1-0-0 .857 5 on Chicago’s power play, rang up two assists on March 13 and one goal with two assists on March 14 at Iowa. He then missed two games, but has delivered one goal and four assists over RECORD BY MONTH the last three games to give him 10 points over his last five games. The younger brother of head Record Win % coach Ryan Warsofsky also does a weekly star turn on social media as the Wolves share “Warsofsky February 8-1-0-0 .889 March 4-1-0-1 .750 Wednesdays” episodes that also can be found on the team’s YouTube page. April 2-1-0-0 .667 May 0-0-0-0 .000 Because the Wolves have been juggling so many players from the Carolina Hurricanes and Nashville Predators organizations, equipment manager Ryan Shoufer has needed to create 6 several new jerseys to accommodate everyone. So far, the Wolves have debuted six new IN OVERTIME (0-0) numbers. Rookie forward Patrick Harper (43), defensemen Frederic Allard (46), Alex Carrier (47) and Joakim Ryan (48), rookie forward Phil Tomasino (50) and just-released rookie defenseman Goaltender Saves-Shots (3-3) SV% Antoine Bibeau (0-0) 3-3 1.000 Matt Murphy (52) have made history this season by becoming the first to wear those numbers. Prior Jeremy Helvig (0-0) 0-0 .000 to this season, the Wolves hadn’t introduced a new uniform number since Jake Chelios was given Beck Warm (0-0) 0-0 .000 No. 42 before making his AHL debut on April 11, 2014, at Iowa. IN THE SHOOTOUT (0-1) When Wolves forward Tanner Jeannot scored Wednesday night at Rockford, it extended his goal streak to eight games. He became just the fifth American Hockey League player since Shooter Goals-Chances (0-3) SH% 8 the 2012-13 season to register an eight-game goal streak. He joined the company of Toronto’s Dominik Bokk 0-1 .000 Chris Mueller (Feb. 1 to March 17, 2019), Albany’s Mike Sislo (Feb. 6-24, 2016), Grand Rapids’ Teemu David Cotton 0-1 .000 Tommy Novak 0-1 .000 Pulkkinen (Dec. 19, 2014, to Jan. 7, 2015) and Charlotte’s Drayson Bowman (Oct. 19 to Nov. 4, 2012). Goaltender Saves-Shots (2-3) SV% Of the 40 players to compete for the Wolves this season, 12 also have played in the Antoine Bibeau (0-1) 2-3 .667 NHL this year: Frederic Allard, Alex Carrier, Jeremy Davies, Morgan Geekie, Tanner 13 Jeannot, Tyler Lewington, Sean Malone, Max McCormick, Petr Mrazek, Rem Pitlick, Sheldon Rempal, Drew Shore and Cole Smith.