2018-19 Chicago Wolves Game Notes CHICAGO AT TEXAS MARCH 2, 2019 7 p.m. AHLTV 2018-19 JUST YOUR EVERYDAY HEROICS TALE OF THE TAPE Left wing Daniel Carr started his Friday being anointed as the American Hockey League’s Player of the Month for February. He finished his Friday by firing home the game-winning goal 1:04 into REGULAR-SEASON SERIES overtime to give the Chicago Wolves a 2-1 victory over the Texas Stars. Among the things Carr accom- 1-4-1-0 Texas | 5-1-0-0 Chicago plished with that tally: • Pushed the Wolves’ winning streak to a season-high-tying six games, the AHL’s longest active streak in the wake of Iowa’s 1-0 defeat of Bakersfield on Friday night. • Pushed his career-high point streak to 12 games -- which tied Syracuse’s Alex Barre-Boulet and Cory Conacher and San Antonio’s Jordan Kyrou for the longest point streak in the AHL this 27-23-4-3 33-17-5-1 season. • Pushed Carr into rare air as the only AHL player to score 30 goals this season. LEADING SCORERS IN SERIES • Pushed the Wolves into first place in the Central Division all by themselves. Chicago started TEXAS CHICAGO Friday tied with Grand Rapids at 70 points apiece, but the Wolves won their overtime game while Skater G A Pts Skater G A Pts the Griffins dropped their overtime game at Rockford. Condra 2 6 8 Carr 5 4 9 • Pushed goaltender Max Lagace’s winning streak to a season-high five games -- though he has x L’Esperance 2 2 4 x Pirri 3 4 7 a ways to go to equal his professional-best streak of 10 wins that he set Jan. 16 to Feb. 17, 2016, Gleason 0 4 4 McKenzie 1 5 6 while playing for Texas. During his five-game run, which began Feb. 17 with another 2-1 overtime Morin 3 0 3 Macek 1 5 6 win, the Quebec native has fashioned an 0.99 goals-against average and a .966 save percentage. SERIES GAME-BY-GAME Date Location Result SF-SA PP PK LINDBERG’S SECOND WOLVES TOUR Oct. 26 H-E-B Center W, 4-3 31-33 1-4 4-4 Center Tobias Lindberg made his season debut with the Wolves on Friday night after being acquired Dec. 2 Allstate Arena L, 4-7 22-34 3-5 4-6 in the NHL trade-deadline deal that sent rookie defenseman Erik Brännström to Ottawa and brought Dec. 18 Allstate Arena W, 6-1 24-24 2-4 3-4 Mark Stone to the Vegas Golden Knights. Lindberg heard about the trade Monday afternoon not long Feb. 21 Allstate Arena W, 3-1 24-39 0-1 1-1 after a car ride with some Belleville (AHL) Senators teammates. Feb. 24 Allstate Arena W, 4-2 29-40 2-4 3-5 March 1 H-E-B Center W (OT) 2-1 22-21 1-3 4-5 “We were saying, ‘Oh, it’s funny no one got traded at the deadline here,’ ” Lindberg told Wolves broad- March 2 H-E-B Center 7 p.m. caster Jason Shaver on Friday. “I got a call about five minutes later. I was real excited it was by Vegas March 22 H-E-B Center 7 p.m. and I was coming back to Chicago.” THROWING IT BACK TO 1996 Lindberg spent all of last season with the Wolves and contributed 10 goals and 13 assists in 64 games On March 3, 1996, a whopping 17,186 fans stuffed as a two-way center alternating between the third and fourth lines. He was teammates with 14 of the themselves into Allstate Arena to watch the Wolves other 23 players on the current Wolves roster. “I’m really happy to be here,” he said. “Knowing about set a franchise record for goals in a game (since half the team and all of the coaching staff, there was a really good feeling around it. I’m really happy broken) with a 9-5 win over the Cleveland Lumber- to be amongst friends and be more comfortable.” jacks. Steve Maltais, Brian Wiseman and Dan Currie earned the Three Stars of the Game in front of the fourth-largest crowd in Wolves history. What else LAST TWO GAMES was happening in the world around this time? FRIDAY, MARCH 1 CHICAGO 2, (at) TEXAS 1 (OT) • Pokémon was introduced to the world five days • Daniel Carr rocketed home the game-winning goal 1:04 into overtime to cap the Wolves’ late earlier. rally and earn the team’s sixth win in a row. • One month earlier, Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch announced he would be starting a 24-hour • Forward Keegan Kolesar scored with 2:31 left in regulation to pull the Wolves even while news channel. After hiring Roger Ailes in February forwards Brooks Macek and Curtis McKenzie set up Carr’s victorious power-play tally. 1996, he and Ailes drew up for the formula for what • Goaltender Max Lagace stopped 20 shots to pick up his fifth straight win. become the Fox News Channel. • On March 2, 1996, the Chicago Bulls pushed their TUESDAY, FEB. 26 (at) CHICAGO 1, ROCKFORD 0 record to 52-6 with a 107-75 home victory over the • Forward Brooks Macek scored the difference-maker in the second period against the IceHogs, Boston Celtics. Michael Jordan posted 21 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals in 32 minutes. sealing the Wolves’ fifth consecutive win. • Forwards Daniel Carr and Gage Quinney each earned assists on the goal. ALL-TIME RECORD BREAKDOWN • Goaltender Max Lagace earned his first shutout of the season with 27 saves. Seasons Home Road Overall 2009-2018 10-12-2-2 10-11-3-0 20-23-5-2 2018-19 Chicago Wolves Game Notes 2018-19 HOME-ROAD CONTRASTS BY THE NUMBERS Regular Season Home Away Difference The Wolves’ prowess during even-strength play shows up in the league’s plus/minus rat- Goals For 3.24 3.52 0.28 Goals Against 2.82 2.63 0.19 ings as Chicago owns the top three spots and four of the top five.Daniel Carr continues to 3 lead the AHL with his +35 rating while linemate Gage Quinney is second at +34. Rookie defensemen Zach Whitecloud ranks third at +33 while Nic Hague stands fifth at +27. RECORD BY DIVISION With goaltenders and leading the way, the Wolves have allowed Record Win % Max Lagace Oscar Dansk Central 26-16-4-1 .606 two goals or fewer in seven consecutive games. That hasn’t happened for Chicago since North 2-0-1-0 .833 7 the 2008-09 season, when Ondrej Pavelec, Robert Gherson and Dan Turple teamed up to Pacific 5-1-0-0 .833 surrender nine goals during a 6-1-0-0 stretch from Oct. 29 to Nov. 14. Later that season, Pavelec went six straight games without allowing three goals in any game. RECORD BY MONTH Daniel Carr’s career-high 12-game point streak stands as the longest active stretch in Record Win % October 6-2-0-1 .722 the AHL. The next-closest run is owned by former teammate Brandon Pirri, who holds a November 4-5-2-0 .455 12 10-game streak that he pieced together from Nov. 28 to Jan. 5 before leaving the Wolves December 10-3-1-0 .750 for good to join the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights. Pirri has posted 10 goals and 5 assists in 24 games January 4-4-2-0 .500 for Vegas. February 8-3-0-0 .727 March 1-0-0-0 1.000 The Wolves and their NHL partner, the Vegas Golden Knights, have been blessed with April 0-0-0-0 .000 relatively good health this season, which is symbolized by the fact the Wolves have 30 needed to use just 30 players to this point in the season. Center Tobias Lindberg IN OVERTIME (7-5) became player No. 30 Friday night. If the Wolves don’t break in any more players this season, then they’ll tie the franchise record for fewest players set by the 1995-96 team. Goaltender Saves-Shots SV% Oscar Dansk (3-2) 7-9 .778 Max Lagace (4-3) 7-10 .700 The Wolves are outscoring their opponents by 36 goals this season (189-153), which trails only Syracuse and Bakersfield for the best goal differential in the AHL. Most of 36 that advantage has been piled up during the first period, when Chicago has out- IN THE SHOOTOUT (0-1) scored its foes 65-40. Nobody in the AHL is close to that +25 margin. The Wolves also outscore op- ponents by 17 (60-43) in the third. Only Syracuse boasts a better differential. Shooter Goals-Chances SH% T.J. Tynan 1-1 1.000 AHL All-Star left wing Daniel Carr enters tonight’s action with 18 points (9G, 9A) in Erik Brännström 0-1 .000 12 games since the All-Star break. For the season, he’s averaging 1.42 points per Daniel Carr 0-1 .000 game. If he maintains this pace over the team’s final 20 games, he’ll finish with 99 Reid Duke 0-1 .000 99 Brooks Macek 0-1 .000 points this season. He would become the AHL’s most prolific points producer since 2009-10, when Stefan Matteau 0-1 .000 Hershey’s Keith Aucoin scored 106 points and teammate Alexandre Giroux added 103.