Breakaway Magazine Vol. 6 Issue 5

THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHICAGO WOLVES

VOL. 6 ISSUE 5

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A HOCKEY STORY Practically born into the game, Chicago Wolves center Alexandre Bolduc has grown within hockey as a player and a person.

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WOLVES HISTORY

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FOUR-TIME CHAMPIONS THE CHICAGO WOLVES FRANCHISE IS DEFINED BY EXCELLENCE. During an 11-year span from 1997-2008, the Wolves reached the league Finals six times and came away with the championship trophy four times. In 1998 and 2000, the Wolves skated away with the International Hockey League’s Turner Cup. In 2002 and 2008, the team hoisted the American Hockey League’s big prize, the Calder Cup. Regardless of which league they’ve played, the Wolves organization has become synonymous with winning. It’s a tradition they carry into their 20th season of competition.

Here, we look back at the four most momentous days in Wolves history, all of which have added to the franchise’s illustrious fabric.

JUNE 15, 1998 Backed by 16,701 fans, the second-largest crowd in Turner Cup Finals history, the Wolves shut out the Detroit Vipers 3-0 to capture their first Turner Cup Championship, 4-games-to-3. It was the first sevengame series for the IHL Championship in 13 years, while the shutout set a then-franchise record with two in one postseason. Chicago won the last two games of the series to become only the sixth team in the IHL’s 53-year history to rebound from a 3-games-to-2 deficit in the Finals. Wolves center Alexander Semak walked away with the N.R. ”Bud“ Poile Trophy as the postseason’s most valuable player.

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JUNE 10, 2008

After a scoreless first period, center Derek Plante notched two goals just 26 seconds apart in the second period to eliminate the Grand Rapids Griffins at Van Andel Arena and capture the Wolves’ second Turner Cup Championship in three years. With the victory, Chicago became the 16th team in league history to capture multiple IHL championships (1998 and 2000). Wolves goaltender Andrei Trefilov was awarded the N.R. ”Bud“ Poile Trophy as the Turner Cup Playoffs Most Valuable Player, having led the league during the postseason in both goals-against average (1.35) and save percentage (.950).

The Wolves clinched their third championship in five years when center Yuri Butsayev scored 2:05 into the second overtime to defeat the Bridgeport Sound Tigers 4-3 and capture the Calder Cup Championship, 4-games-to-1, at the Allstate Arena.

The Wolves, who played a league-high 105 games, including an all-time American Hockey Leaguehigh 25 playoff games, became the sixth team in AHL history to win the championship in their inaugural season. Goaltender Pasi Nurminen was awarded the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the playoff MVP, posting a league-leading and then franchise-high 15 wins. Right wing Rob Brown, who notched three assists in the victory, led the league during the postseason with a then-franchise record 33 points and tied an AHL and team record with 26 assists.

The Wolves clinched their fourth league title in 11 years and second Calder Cup Championship with a 5-2 victory and a 4-games-to-2 series win over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at Allstate Arena.

Center Jason Krog capped a four-point night with a hat trick and an assist, which earned him the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the MVP of the 2008 Calder Cup Playoffs. He matched franchise marks with 12 goals and 26 assists in the postseason and established a new club record with 38 points.

Rookie goaltender Ondrej Pavelec collected his 16th postseason win, the most in club history.

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WO LV ES H I STO RY

BEHIND THE LENS FOR 19 SEASONS, CHICAGO WOLVES PHOTOGRAPHER ROSS DETTMAN has been dedicated to chronicling the team’s improbable goals, wild celebrations and memorable fights. Just like a favorite player, certain photos and events stand out among the rest. Here, he shares the images that stick with him season after season.

ANDERSON LAST CALDER CUP (2008) He’s in the middle of a huddle with the guys, fighting back some tears. It was really him just saying goodbye before joining the Atlanta Thrashers as head coach. This was their last hurrah together. For that last moment, it was cool to capture.

KOGUT PUTTING THE CALDER CUP PATCH ON DARREN HAYDAR’S SWEATER TO BEGIN THE CALDER CUP FINAL (2008) I walked down to the locker room to shoot something else and Wolves head equipment manager Craig Kogut was out in the hall on his sewing machine and he was sewing the Calder Cup patches on the jerseys. The sewing machine has a little spotlight it projects to where it’s shooting at.

It’s a really cool ring of light and it was symbolic against the Captain’s jersey. It’s really the juxtaposition of it all coming together.

TRAINER KEVIN KACER AND DARREN HAYDAR CLOWNING AROUND IN THE ICE BATH AFTER THE CALDER CUP CHAMPIONSHIP (2008) They were both in the tub. It’s hilarious. Just them having fun. Such a weird and quirky moment.

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DONALD R. LEVIN (luh-VIN) founded DRL Enterprises, Inc., in 1969. The

DON LEVIN CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD / GOVERNOR

Chicago-based company has holdings in many industries including tobacco processing, aircraft and medical equipment leasing, licensed sports product manufacturing and distribution, and motion picture production and distribution.

Levin’s film company has made nearly 20 motion pictures distributed in the U.S. and overseas. His films have featured such stars as Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Sharon Stone, Rodney Dangerfield, and Chuck Norris.

Levin founded the Chicago Wolves with William Buddy Meyers and Grant Mulvey in January 1994 and has served as the team’s chairman of the board throughout.

Levin donates his time and serves on the board of directors for several charitable organizations.

Levin also supports Chicago’s Department of Animal Care and Control (ACC).

The Wolves host the ACC’s Adopt-a-Dog program at several home games each season and encourage fans to bring home an adopted dog after the game. The Adopt-A-Dog program has found homes for 1,080 dogs in its first 13 seasons. Ten years ago, Levin purchased and donated the Animobile -- a mobile adoption unit and a modern clinic staffed by veterinarians and adoption specialists.

The Chicago native was recognized at the Boy Scouts of America’s Northwest Suburban Council’s Distinguished Citizens Banquet as its 2005 Honoree. Under Levin’s direction, the Wolves organization has held a scout night for the Northwest Suburban Council at a home game for the last 16 seasons.

Levin was inducted into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame on Jan. 27, 2013. He was honored as the International Hockey League’s Executive of the Year for the 19992000 season, which concluded with the franchise’s second of four championships.

Before beginning his business career, Levin served in the United States Marine Corps, from which he was honorably discharged.

Levin and his wife, Kathleen Ann, have a son, Robert, and they live in the northern suburbs.

ROB BROWN. DALLAS EAKINS. DAN PLANTE. GUY LAROSE. BOBBY NARDELLA. TIM BRESLIN. WENDELL YOUNG. THEY ALL WERE VERY

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PROFESSIONAL AND THEY GAVE THEIR HEART AND SOUL TO THE GAME. AND THERE ARE A LOT MORE. I COULD NAME 50 MORE LIKE THAT.”

WILLIAM BUDDY MEYERS, a principal owner of the Wolves who founded

WILLIAM BUDDY MEYERS VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

the team with Don Levin and Grant Mulvey in January 1994, has been involved in the world of hockey for more than 35 years. He is a former certified agent of the National Hockey League Players’ Association and is past attorney for the Soviet Red Army Hockey Team (CSKA).

He is a practicing attorney and the principal in the law firm of William Buddy Meyers, Ltd. His concentration is in the areas of worker’s compensation and personal injury litigation. Additionally, he is a member of the Illinois Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and Illinois Workers Compensation Lawyers Association; a former director of the Better Boys Foundation and River North Association; and a recipient of the Shomrim Society of Illinois’ Man of the Year Award in 2006. He also supports numerous charitable and environmental organizations.

Meyers is a graduate of the University of “TROY MURRAY (MY FORMER CLIENT).

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a juris KEVIN MACDONALD BECAUSE HE WAS doctor degree from the Illinois Institute of THE FIRST PLAYER WE SIGNED AND Technology/Chicago Kent. He and Jill live in OUR FIRST CAPTAIN. ALEXANDER the River North area of Chicago and have five SEMAK; THE WINNING GOAL-SCORER children between them: Justin, Lindsey, Zak, FOR OUR FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP. Brad, and Leslie.

ONDREJ PAVELEC. WENDELL YOUNG, WHO HAS BEEN WITH US FROM THE BEGINNING. THIS PAGE DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO NAME THEM ALL.”

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HOCKEY OPERATIONS

WENDELL YOUNG GENERAL MANAGER

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WENDELL YOUNG enters his fifth season at the helm of the Wolves hockey operations department. The team has compiled a .590 winning percentage (167-111-15-19) during his tenure as general manager, which includes capturing the regular-season West Division title in 2009-10 and the regular-season Midwest Division title in 2011-12.

The 50-year-old is the Wolves’ all-time leader among goaltenders in games played (322), wins (169), saves (8,467), minutes (17,912) and shutouts (16), and was a member of Chicago’s 1998 and 2000 Turner Cup championship squads. His jersey number “1” was the first number retired by the Wolves on Dec. 1, 2001.

The Halifax, Nova Scotia, native, who was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2007, is the only man in hockey history to have won all four North American championships: the Stanley Cup, Turner Cup, Calder Cup and Memorial Cup. He captured the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992 as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 1988 Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears, the 1982 Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers and the 1998 and 2000 Turner Cups with the Wolves. He also was behind the bench as a coach for the Wolves 2008 Calder Cup victory.

Young played 18 seasons of professional hockey, including 10 in the National Hockey League. He compiled a 59-86-12 record in 187 games with the Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Penguins. He also served as goaltending coach for the Calgary Flames from 2001-2003.

BILL BENTLEY enters his fifth season as assistant general manager and 20th season with the Wolves organization.

One of a handful of people who has been with the organization since the team’s inception in 1994, Bentley has been instrumental in the hockey operations department for more than 17 years, which includes all four championship campaigns.

The Chicago native joined the organization as a statistician in 1994 and was promoted to team services manager a year later. The 43-year-old spent 12 seasons as the director of hockey administration, handling team travel, immigration and accounting for the hockey operations department, before assuming the assistant general manager role in August 2009.

A graduate of Quincy College, Bentley served as the Director of Media Relations for the Chicago Cheetahs of the now defunct Roller Hockey International during the 1993-94 season.

BILL BENTLEY ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER

GENE UBRIACO DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY OPERATIONS

GENE UBRIACO returns for his 17th term as the Wolves director of hockey operations and fifth as senior advisor following a 10-year professional playing career and 26 seasons as a professional coach.

Ubriaco has been with the Wolves since the 1994-95 inaugural season when he was the team’s first head coach. That year, he guided the Wolves to a 34-33-14 record and a berth in the Turner Cup Playoffs. He compiled a 61-61-20 head coaching record with the Wolves during a three-year span, including a two-game interim stint during the 1996-97 season.

Ubriaco began his coaching career at Lake Superior State University in 1972-73. Four years later, he led the Milwaukee Admirals to the Turner Cup Playoffs, becoming the first International Hockey League coach to lead an expansion team into the postseason.

In 1988-89, Ubriaco moved on to the National Hockey League to coach the Pittsburgh Penguins. Under his tutelage, the Penguins shattered several team records that season and advanced to the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a seven-year absence.

The Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native recorded 162 goals, 258 assists and 420 points in 456 AHL games spanning nine seasons, which includes a career-high 42 goals and 86 points during the 1965-66 season with the Hershey Bears. Ubriaco spent his final three years as a player in the NHL with the Penguins (1967-68), the Oakland Seals (1968-69) and the Chicago Blackhawks (1969-70).

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JOHN ANDERSON enters his 12th season as Wolves head coach after being re-hired to the position on July 16, 2013.

Anderson returns to the Wolves with four years of National Hockey League experience, which includes two years as head coach of the Atlanta Thrashers from 2008-10. He served most recently as an assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes from 2011-13.

The 56-year-old Anderson guided the Wolves to four championships during his first tenure with the Wolves: the Calder Cup in 2002 and 2008 and the Turner Cup in 1998 and 2000. He is the team’s all-time leader in wins (506) and postseason victories (105).

Prior to joining the Wolves, Anderson captured the Colonial Cup as head coach of the Quad City Mallards of the Colonial Hockey League. He began his coaching career with the Winston-Salem Mammoths in 1995-96, leading them to the Southern Hockey League Finals and a 30-23-1 regular-season record.

Toronto’s first pick (11th overall) in the 1977 amateur draft, Anderson played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Maple Leafs (1977-85), Quebec Nordiques (1985-86), and Hartford Whalers (1986-89). The Toronto native registered five 30-goal campaigns in the NHL, including four straight from 1981-85. Anderson’s most productive offensive season came in 1982-83, when he paced Toronto with 80 points (31G, 49A) in 80 games.

Anderson ranks 14th in Maple Leafs history with 189 goals and 20th with 393 points.

Overall, he amassed 282 goals and 631 points in 814 career NHL games, along with 9 goals and 27 points in 37 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests.

DAVE ALLISON enters his first season with the Wolves after being named assistant coach on July 16, 2013. He brings 18 years of professional coaching experience to Chicago.

Allison served most recently as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Peoria Rivermen, where he led the team to a 33-35-5-3 record in 2012-13.

Prior to joining the Rivermen, the 54-year-old Allison spent time as a scout with the Pittsburgh Penguins and worked as a part of the player development team with the Colorado Avalanche.

Allison has accumulated a 232-214-25-28 mark during his seven seasons and 499 games as an AHL head coach with Peoria (2012-13), Iowa (2005-08), Milwaukee (200102), and Prince Edward Island (1994-96).

The Fort Francis, Ontario, native also had a 25-game stint as the interim head coach of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators during the 1995-96 season.

Allison enjoyed a 10-year professional career as a defenseman in the AHL, IHL, and NHL. He amassed 119 assists, 144 points, and 1,473 penalty minutes in 452 career AHL games with Nova Scotia, Sherbrooke, Newmarket, and Halifax spanning eight seasons from 1979 to 1985 and 1987-89. He skated in three NHL games with Montreal during the 1983-84 campaign.

SCOTT ALLEN enters his first season with the Wolves after being named assistant coach on July 16, 2013. He brings 17 years of professional coaching experience to Chicago.

Allen served most recently as Dave Allison’s assistant with the Peoria Rivermen during the 2012-13 campaign. Prior to joining Peoria, he spent three seasons in the National Hockey League as an assistant coach with the New York Islanders.

The 47-year-old Allen entered the coaching ranks as an assistant coach with the ECHL’s Johnstown Chiefs in 1996 and was promoted to head coach of the franchise halfway through the 1997-98 season. He would serve as the Chiefs head coach for four more years before moving to the American Hockey League in 2002.

Allen spent two seasons with the San Antonio Rampage (2002-04), where he split time as an assistant coach and then a head coach. He then served as an assistant coach in Lowell, Omaha, and Quad City from 2004-09.

The New Bedford, Mass., native spent 10 years as a player in professional hockey as the former center competed in the All American Hockey League, Atlantic Coast Hockey League, Colonial Hockey League, Central Hockey League and the ECHL.

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D | H 6-7 | W 217 Feb. 22, 1991 Beaumont, Alberta @BrettPonich

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RW | H 5-10 | W 194 Feb. 1, 1989 Valencia, California @Cali_Sharp

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LW | H 6-1 | W 205 May 29, 1984 Toronto, Ontario @32porterhouse

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D | H 6-0 | W 191 Feb. 16, 1988 Forestburg, Alberta @Evan_Oberg

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G | H 6-2 | W 203 Aug. 7, 1990 Fredericton, New Brunswick @34jallen

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PRACTICALLY BORN INTO THE GAME, CHICAGO WOLVES CENTER ALEXANDRE BOLDUC HAS GROWN WITHIN HOCKEY AS A PLAYER AND A PERSON.

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A hockey Story CALL IT CLICHÉ. CALL IT DESTINY. BUT AS A KID GROWING UP OUTSIDE MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CHICAGO WOLVES CENTER ALEXANDRE BOLDUC KNEW ONE THING: HE WAS GOING TO BE A HOCKEY PLAYER. “Hockey is just what you do there; everyone plays hockey,” Bolduc said. “It’s almost like a religion in Montreal. My family has had season tickets to the (Montreal) Canadiens since I was about 6, so I used to go to those games a lot with my dad. There was no question of other sports. I played football and I played soccer, but I always knew I was going to be a hockey player. My parents put my first pair of skates on me when I was 2 or 3 and I would just walk around the hallways in them. I was fortunate in that it worked out the way I hoped it would. I have gotten to do it for a long time. It has always been a huge part of my life.”

The game has afforded the 28-year-old Bolduc the chance to travel the world while also staying close to those closest to him. Drafted by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in 2001, Bolduc had a 43-point breakout sophomore season and was selected by the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues with the 127th overall pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He stayed on with the Huskies another two seasons and spent a year with the QMJHL’s Shawinigan Cataractes before signing with the ECHL’s Bakersfield Condors as a free agent in 2005.

“When I got drafted to Major Juniors, I realistically thought maybe I could make a go of hockey as a career,” Bolduc said. “When I was 16 or 17 it really seemed like it could happen. There weren’t any really big moments for me, though. I scored my first goal in my first QMJHL game and that was exciting because Major Junior is a pretty big deal in Quebec and to get to that level and do well, it’s big.”

The town he was living in, though, was small. While Montreal is a major business and economic hub within a primarily French-speaking province, Bolduc was hardly fluent in the language, and found adjusting to being immersed in French Canada more daunting than anything he faced on the ice. “(Rouyn-Noranda) was pretty tiny, so the upside is you make a lot of friends there,” he said. “I went to high school there, too, in French. That was hard at first. My mom is French so I could always understand the language, but the writing and stuff was difficult. The verbs are hard. I was in an English high school in Montreal and I had always gone to school with students who were English speakers first. Not an easy transition.”

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Bolduc persevered, though, making it through his QMJHL years and graduating to the ranks of minor league professional.

During his first season with the Condors, Bolduc signed with the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose and, following the team’s 2007-08 campaign, he inked his first NHL deal with the Moose’s NHL affiliate, the Vancouver Canucks. From 2008-11, Bolduc bounced between the Moose and Canucks and appeared in 46 NHL contests.

“It was crazy getting drafted to the NHL and even though I didn’t really know where that was going to take me, it was an exciting time figuring out where I was going to go next,” Bolduc said. “At 20 years old, I was starting my career strong with the Moose. I learned a lot there. Mike Keane was my captain for a couple years and he had played in the NHL forever, it seemed, and I took a lot away from him. I was fortunate to be a captain with the Portland Pirates last year and I took pretty much everything he taught me and showed it to the young guys. I love Manitoba and the time I spent there.”

But while Bolduc was off trying to make something of himself as a hockey player, tragedy struck at home. Bolduc’s father, Orval, was diagnosed with colon cancer in December 2005. He died April 3, 2006.

“I was 21 when my dad passed, and so suddenly,” Bolduc said. “My brother Tyler was just 17 at the time. It was tough because with him being so young, from then on I had to toe that fine line between being his brother and also his father figure. Sometimes you have to tell him the difference between right and wrong. He was just a 17-year-old kid.

Obviously it brought us even closer and we have a solid relationship now, and we’re really close with our mom. Overall we are a close family. My dad’s sister is like a second mom to me. She was really strong and she helped my brother and I out with everything. Tyler lives with my mom in Montreal still and I bought a

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house right near them too.”

While their father’s death strengthened the sibling bond, Tyler says he and his brother weren’t immune to tougher times during their more formative years.

“We didn’t always have the easiest relationship growing up,” he said. “We always had our differences like any siblings. When our father passed away, though, Alex really stepped up and took care of me and we got closer. Before he was so focused on his hockey career and after our father passed, he just stepped up as a brother. I was home alone a lot with our mom and he started checking up on me and making sure I was doing OK.” As if to underscore how far they’ve come, Tyler, a former junior hockey player who coaches Bantam AA in Montreal, has high praise for his big brother and just how far he has come since the days when he forced his little brother to play goalie.

“I’m not only impressed with him and what he has accomplished, he’s my role model,” Tyler said. “Watching him never give up, fighting through obstacles and just watching him grow through juniors, the ECHL, the American League and the NHL has been pretty special for all of us.

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Alex is a good guy. He’s a solid leader, has a good head on his shoulders, always works hard and is always doing the right thing and setting the right example.”

Another important figure in Bolduc’s life is his best friend, Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford. The two have been close since their kindergarten days in Montreal. Crawford being in Chicago was a big factor for Bolduc when he was shopping for a new team last offseason.

“First and foremost, coming to Chicago was about winning for me,” he said. “I wanted to go to a team that had a really high standard for winning. I wanted to be with the best team possible and that is Chicago. The Wolves had gone out and gotten a lot of good players this summer and I thought this would be an awesome team to play with where I would be well taken care of. I grew up with Corey and have been best friends with him since I was 5, so it was definitely a great prospect for me to get to live in the same city as my best friend. We live 10 minutes apart in Chicago and 10 minutes apart back home. I see him quite a bit; we have dinners. It’s fun having someone you know so well here and to see how well he’s doing now is

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COREY [CRAWFORD] AND I HAVE OLD MUSCLE CARS, SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE DO IN OUR DOWNTIME BACK HOME. great. I’m really happy I’m here.”

They may share dinners during hockey season, but during the summer Bolduc and Crawford share (and indulge in) their passion for speed.

“Corey and I have old muscle cars, so that’s something we do in our downtime back home,” Bolduc said. “I have a ’69 Road Runner and he has a ’69 Chevelle and our other best friend has a ’69 Camaro. We have a lot of fun with those.

We trust each other so we’ll hop in and drive the other’s car, but I’d rather drive my own just in case something did happen. It’s nice to see the different styles of car. My dad actually left me my car. They’re pretty cool. It’s a huge bonding thing for us.”

Another recent bonding thing?

Traveling to the Spengler Cup with Tyler.

When Bolduc received the unexpected call in December inviting him to represent Canada in the invitational tournament, he grabbed his brother and headed for Davos, Switzerland.

“It was an awesome experience and they treated us unbelievable over there,” Bolduc said. “It never really crossed my mind that I would have the option to go. I was pretty surprised and pretty excited at the same time. Where we played was high up in the mountains so the altitude was something I had to adjust to during the first couple practices. But it was so cool.”

“That was by far one of the coolest things we‘ve done together,” Tyler said.

“To experience a new country and watch him play some really cool hockey was amazing.”

Beyond just being a great career opportunity, the tournament also gave Bolduc the opportunity to get to know a famous former Chicago Wolves player also representing Canada.

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“I sat close to Darren Haydar in the locker room and got to know him better,” Bolduc said. “Everyone told me he was a really great guy and he was. I talked to him a lot and he was asking a lot about how Chicago was and he obviously misses it a lot here. He loves Chicago. He is a really great guy, one of the good ones.”

Bolduc is happy to have plenty of good ones around him with the Wolves as well.

Since signing a one-year contract with the Blues in July and participating in their training camp, Bolduc has settled in with Chicago. He’s a veteran anchor on a young team with huge potential.

“I think Manitoba and Chicago have the top two organizations in the American League,” he said. “They are run like NHL teams. It’s a big reason why I wanted to come to the Wolves this season, because I wanted to get back to a really high level of play in a top-notch organization that will do whatever it takes to win. We have so much skill here. I feel like on this team we don’t have those really tough guys, so we all have to get together and have that team toughness together. We all have to stand up for each other. I’ll stand up for any of these guys.”

While Canada’s favorite pastime remains the focal point for Bolduc, he’s recently adopted an American favorite as well; another sign he’s becoming more accustomed to his new surroundings.

“I watch a lot of football,” he said. “I’m a big New Orleans Saints fan. This is just my third year living in the U.S. so I’m getting more into it. When I was living in Manitoba and Vancouver it wasn’t nearly as important. But now that I’m living here, especially in a football city like Chicago, it’s cool. I went to my first Bears game this season and that was really cool. It was something I have always wanted to do. It was cold, but definitely

worth it.”

His long-term plan does include a permanent return to the Great White North, with Crawford in tow. The two recently purchased a gym outside Montreal and they plan to make it their new obsession once it’s time to hang up the skates.

“We are getting ready to open our own gym and it’s something I’ve worked on with Corey for a few years,” he said. “It’s going to be an athletes-specific gym.

When I’m done training, my focus will be on training kids. It’s kind of staying in hockey, but more in the offseason training kind of way. Our trainer Andrew Levine is the guy who has been training Corey and I for 5-6 years and he’s helping us open it and will be our head guy. I’m excited for that phase next.”

Until then, he’s content to keep chugging as a player and hitting his stride with the Wolves. While he shyly admits to “one day” wanting a son and family of his own, the best thing for Bolduc now is spending time with the boys and striving for the one thing that makes him happiest of all.

“I love being with the guys on this team,” he said. “Being around your buddies every day, that’s what I’ll miss the most when all this is over. You go to war with these guys; you go to battle.

That’s my favorite part is just hanging out with them and getting to play a game for a living.

“Winning is the best too. There is no better feeling than driving home after a win. It’s the only time I ever really feel like I’ve accomplished something. Life is always good after a win, and when I enjoy life most.”

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CHICAGO’S “WHATEVER-IT-TAKES” MENTALITY IS QUINTESSENTIAL TO THE SPORTS TEAMS THAT THRIVE IN THIS CITY – ON THE COURT, ON THE ICE, OR ON THE FIELD. FANS ASK ONLY THAT THEIR TEAMS LEAVE IT ALL THERE. IT WAS MICHAEL JORDAN – THE HEARTBEAT OF CHICAGO SPORTS DYNASTIES - WHO SAID HE BELIEVED THAT GREATNESS WAS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS.

He said that greatness changes and evolves era to era.

defeated the Griffins to win the club’s second Cup.

Jordan’s mantra is one that runs hot in the blood of the Chicago Wolves franchise.

BUDDY MEYERS: (vice chairman) He was the Russian goalie, the one that kissed the ice.

What began as an International Hockey League franchise, a team that had its fair share of grizzled hockey veterans – men who had seen decades of game action and played alongside some of the game’s greatest stars - is today an American Hockey League team with a cap on the number of veterans it can play any given night.

Upon winning the 1998 Turner Cup, the Wolves would enter into a new era, one that would demand evolution – adaptation – in exchange for greatness. The club would meet and exceed that demand, winning three championships in five years – in two different leagues.

The team that won a Turner Cup in 2000 against long-time rival Grand Rapids was a different one that saw victory just two years prior against the Detroit Vipers.

Because they started the year comprised of new and old, it would take them the season to evolve into a team that could win another Cup. Team stalwarts like Wendell Young, Steve Maltais, and Bob Nardella were still in place. But as with the birth of every new hockey season, this team saw some new additions that would very much take a part in determining its eventual success.

Former Vipers netminder Andrei Trefilov was part of a goaltending duo that year that included Young – eventually posting up for the team’s Turner Cup win in Game 6, winning the post-season Most Valuable Player Award, leading the league in both goals-against average and save percentage.

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WENDELL YOUNG: (general manager) I had heard about Tref. He never got along with other goalies – ever. He hated them. He comes to me at the beginning of the season and goes, “I don’t know if you’ve heard of me…” And I go, “Tref, I know all about ya.” He told me all about how he didn’t like other goalies and then he goes, “But somehow, I like you. I like you and I don’t know why.” I told him that we were in this together and that if he did well, we did well, and he goes, “That’s why! You’re never against. I like you.”

MEYERS: I went to get Donnie and I said, “Something’s wrong with Danny Plante.” Here we are, we had just won, and he’s crying. I walked over to him and I said, “Are you OK?” He says, “Well, yeah!” He had never won a championship, and he was just so emotional with it. I thought there was something wrong!

DAN PLANTE: (former Wolves right wing) I was calling my dad and I got a little emotional. I look up and Buddy Meyers is standing there, and to this day he gives me crap about seeing a grown man cry.

LEVIN: “Feather” did the same thing. He went crazy over that win.

YOUNG: I think that proves a point about championships. It’s such a long process, and so hard to get there. So many guys go through their career and never win, and they’ve tried, and tried, and tried.

The roster also featured Dan Plante, a Midwestern kid who had played a bit for the New York Islanders in the National League, but who’d never won a championship. His locker room nickname was “Cowboy.”

PLANTE: You just think about the culmination

There was Glen Featherstone, a giant defenseman with a penchant for over-thetop goal celebrations. Both men contributed in very different ways to lead the Wolves to that championship on a June night in Michigan - and both memorable for their postgame locker room performances.

There was a pretty special person in the stands, too, for the win.

of everything you’ve put in – and granted it wasn’t the NHL and it wasn’t the Stanley Cup – but it was our Stanley Cup.

MEYERS: It was Danny Plante.

MEYERS: Marty Howe was our assistant coach at the time. Gordie Howe was there to support him and I’ll never forget this – Donnie and I, of course, were panicked, sitting there shaking – and Gordie and his wife were in our skybox that night and he turned around and said the most amazing thing. He said, “Don’t worry, the puck has been riding on its side for most of the game, you’re gonna win.” I still to this day have no idea what he meant, but he was so calm, and sure enough that’s the night that Trefie kissed the ice.

LEVIN: Okay then. I must have been in the other room with Glen Featherstone, and he was crying too.

LEVIN: I was sitting there with my son and Gordie Howe starts spinning him in a circle and my son is a little kid and he says, “Who is

MEYERS: We won and after the game we all went to the locker room and we were elated. I see Danny Plante in the corner and I walk over to him and I hear him crying.

DON LEVIN: (chairman of the board) No, it was Featherstone…

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that?” I say, “That’s Gordie Howe! I want him to spin me in a circle.”

I don’t think would have worked in another organization.

One year and 363 days later they won again, hoisting yet another Cup.

It is the principal fact of evolution that one must adapt or perish.

But there would be no more Turner Cups for this franchise.

It was Charles Darwin - the foremost expert on the subject - who said, “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”

Instead, they found themselves drinking from a new cup, in a new league.

The Wolves would once again find themselves evolving into something different - another animal altogether – one that was part-bear, part-wolf. At least at first.

In 2001 the team joined the AHL, signing a multi-year agreement to become the primary affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers.

As part of that agreement, the Wolves absorbed the roster of the Orlando Solar Bears, who had been the Thrashers IHL affiliate previously, and who had just won the 2001 Turner Cup.

STEVE MALTAIS: (former Wolves forward) These guys were so young. They were fresh out of having just won – kind of spoiled – so it took a while to click.

BOB NARDELLA: (former Wolves defenseman) It was tough because if you had so many games played, you could only put so many of those guys in the lineup. It was an American League rule. The team wasn’t used to being affiliated. That was another adjustment. It ended up working out in the end, but it’s very frustrating when you might not be dressing tonight because they’ve got to sit a veteran.

Or your affiliate wants a certain guy to play, even though it might be better for the team if you play.

KEVIN CHEVELDAYOFF: (former Wolves general manager) I think it was a bit weird for a lot of different reasons, but we were very fortunate to have a good group of players that were very tight with each other and who were very committed to the task at hand. I think it took a little while to form our own identity and our own team.

YOUNG: To bring a team that you played against in the finals the year before into the room – basically the core of both teams – with the egos and who was going to be captain, who was on the power play – all of that, and then to mesh so well and be all in it together,

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The unity and leadership in the dressing room that flowered after the team(s) embraced the roster changes and the new league had a great example in Wolves upper management.

CHEVELDAYOFF: The Orlando Solar Bears players received their championship rings from the year before and there was no formal presentation to be able to give it to them. There was no team, no banner-raising that they could be a part of or anything like that, so I remember I brought them into the room and I had all the rings and we had a presentation to those players in our locker room with the entire team. We talked about how great it would be to be able to win a championship of our own as a group and how special it was. It was a pretty emotional event that no one else but that team got to be a part of, and maybe that was one of the galvanizing moments as a group that you were able to put closure to the past and give it the proper recognition it deserved for those players that had rightfully beat us in the finals the previous year. It was humbling because here you are – the runner-up – handing them their championship rings. It was for me, and maybe for the guys who had lost the year before, just enough to dig deep and say that hurt. That really, really hurt and I don’t want to be the second-place person again.

It was moments like this during the season that would make the two teams into one, but it was still a fight to the finish.

JUDD SIROTT: (former Wolves play-by-play announcer) If the first one was overwhelming, and the second one was a relief, that third championship was a surprise.

DALLAS EAKINS: (former Wolves defenseman) That ’02 championship was a year that we weren’t one of the top teams – I think we were five or six games over .500 during the season – but we got rollin’ in the playoffs. The

thing I loved about that team, and it is a thing I preach to my teams now as a coach, is how tenacious we were. We would not quit. We would not turn away from any kind of conflict.

We had a very tough-minded team that was never, ever going to turn away from a fight.

We might not have been picked to win, but we found a way.

DEREK MACKENZIE: (former Wolves center) It was my first year pro and the last thing on my mind was winning a Calder Cup. I was just trying to survive and to do some things that would get me to the next level. We snuck into the playoffs. We had some best-of-threes and best-of-fives that went into overtime. Slowly the leadership group in that room just kind of made everyone a believer. I thought at the time that it was luck and something that would happen a few times in my career.

Thirteen years later, it’s the only ring I have.

The win – so soon after joining the American League – was really about saying goodbye to the IHL too. And it became what goodbyes sometimes are – bittersweet.

MALTAIS: There were a lot of old-school guys that put up big numbers in the IHL, and they were kind of washed away – lost in the American League and it didn’t mean anything.

That bothered me.

YOUNG: We won two championships in the “I,” and then we struggled for validation because the “I” was like the ugly stepchild, and didn’t get enough credibility as a league.

I think the fact that the Chicago Wolves won the first championship when they joined the American Hockey League woke a lot of people up to what the “I” was really about, and boosted that league’s credibility. The third championship gave credibility to the first two.

WAYNE MESSMER: (senior executive vice president) I don’t recall – shall we say – the ticker tape parade reception coming into the AHL, so to win right away was about as sweet as it gets. I think we kind of quietly were like, “Mmm-hmm.” That was probably the biggest celebration of them all – portions of which I recall.

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RECORD BREAKERS

SINGLE-SEASON FRANCHISE RECORDS GOALS ASSISTS POINTS PENALTY MIN. PLUS/MINUS WINS SHUTOUTS

Steve Maltais

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ALL-TIME POINTS LEADERS 1996-97

PLAYER Steve Maltais

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454

497

951

1,061

Rob Brown

91

1995-96

Rob Brown

369

157

326

483

483

Rob Brown

143

1995-96

Darren Haydar

342

128

240

368

257

Kevin MacDonald 336

1994-95

Jason Krog

282

98

244

342

106

Brett Sterling

302

167

141

308

384

Arturs Kulda

+47

2009-10

Kari Lehtonen

38

2004-05

Wendell Young Matt Climie

6 6

1999-2000 2012-13

PACK FACTS

Bob Nardella

476

59

239

298

331

Steve Larouche

203

84

144

228

168

Chris Marinucci

240

99

121

220

77

Steve Martins

262

64

129

193

307

Derek MacKenzie

377

83

101

184

441

ALL-TIME WINNING RECORD The Wolves have delivered a winning record in each of the franchise’s first 19 seasons. They have qualified for the playoffs 15 times, appeared in six league finals and captured four championships.

Rob Brown, who donned a Wolves jersey for five seasons between 1994 and 2003, set the franchise’s single-season record for points (143) in 1995-96.

Goaltender Matt Climie set two franchise records during the 2012-13 season: Most road shutouts (5) in a single season and longest scoreless streak (173 minutes, 57 seconds).

During John Anderson’s first stint as Wolves head coach (19972008), his teams set singleSeven-time all-star Steve Maltais holds the Wolves career records for games (839), goals (454), assists (497), points (951) and penalty minutes (1,061). He played with

season franchise records for wins (55 in 1997-98), points (114 in 1999-2000), goals (331 in 200607) and power-play goals (112 in 2006-07).

the team from 1994-2005.

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BOARDING

CHARGING

CROSS-CHECKING

DELAYED PENALTY

ELBOWING

HIGH-STICKING

HOLDING

Called for any action which causes opponent to be thrown violently into the boards.

Called for taking three or more strides before checking opponent.

Called for hitting opponent with both hands on the stick and no part of the stick on the ice.

Call is made when the penalized team gains control of the puck or upon a stop in play.

Called when using the elbow to impede an opponent.

Called for making contact with an opponent when carrying the stick above the shoulder.

Called for using the hands, arms or legs to hold an opponent.

HOOKING

ICING

INTERFERENCE

MISCONDUCT

ROUGHING

SLASHING

Called for using stick or blade to hook opponent.

Called when a player on his team’s side of the red center line shoots the puck down the ice, it crosses the red goal line at any point (other than the goal) and is touched first by an opposing player other than the goalie.*

Called for having contact with an opponent not in possession of the puck.

Called for an infraction that warrants a more serious penalty than a standard minor or major penalty.

Called for engaging in fisticuffs or shoving of a level that is not worthy of a major penalty.

Called for swinging the stick at an opponent.

SPEARING

TRIPPING

Called for using the stick like a spear.

Called for using the stick, arm or leg to cause an opponent to trip or fall.

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT Called for the abuse of an official or other such misconduct.

*Under hybrid icing rules, it’s called when an opposing player (other than the goalie) is the first to reach the face-off dot closest to the goal line.

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HOCKEY RULES

WOLVES FACTS

ICING THE PUCK

AVERAGES & RATINGS (2012-13)

Icing is when a player on his team’s side of the red center line shoots the puck all the way down the ice and it crosses the red goal line at any point (other than the goal). Icing is not permitted when teams are at equal strength or on the power play. When this occurs, play is stopped and the puck is returned to the other end of the ice for a faceoff in the offending team’s zone. Icing the puck is not called: > If the goalie leaves the crease to play the puck, even if he does not touch the puck. > If an official rules an opposing player could have played the puck before it crossed the red goal line. > An official may wave off the icing call if he deems it was an attempted pass.

SHOT ON GOAL

A shot on goal is a shot that would enter the goal if it is not stopped by the goaltender. A shot on goal must result in either a goal or a save.

PENALTIES

Penalties are classified into three categories: minor, major and misconduct.

For a minor penalty, players are required to serve two minutes in the penalty box while their team plays short-handed. A minor penalty will expire if the opposing team scores while on the power play.

Major penalties require a player to serve five minutes in the penalty box and only expire at the end of that time.

Misconduct penalties vary in length.

POWER PLAYS / PENALTY KILL

A team is on the power play when one team has more players on the ice than the other team because a player is serving a penalty. Conversely, the team with fewer players is on the penalty kill.

2.68

AVG. GOALS AGAINST PER GAME

2.72

POWER PLAY GOALS SCORED

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POWER PLAY RATING

OFFSIDES

A team is offside when any member of the attacking team precedes the puck over the defending team’s blueline. The position of the player’s skate — and not that of his stick — is the determining factor. If both skates are over the blueline before the puck, the player is offside. If he has only one skate over the blueline and one on it, he is onside.

17.1%

PENALTY KILL RATING

80.3%

OVERTIME GAMES PLAYED

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LEADING AFTER THE SECOND PERIOD Last season, the Wolves won 80 percent of games in which they were leading after two periods.

PENALTY KILL

OVERTIME

Any regular-season game that ends regulation play with a tie score will go into a five-minute sudden-death overtime period. If at the end of that overtime period the game remains tied, the game will then go into a shootout.

During the playoffs, there will not be a shootout and overtime periods will be 20 minutes in length.

SHOOTOUT

AVG. GOALS PER GAME

Last season, the Wolves won 61 percent of games in which they did not allow the opposing team to score a powerplay goal.

POWER PLAY Last season, the Wolves won 48 percent of games in which they scored at least one power-play goal and 40 percent of games when they scored two or more.

SCORING FIRST

Any regular-season game that ends overtime play with a tie score will go into a shootout. A shootout is a series of penalty shots in which each team is allowed five attempts to score in alternating fashion. If after five attempts the teams remain tied, the shootout will continue to alternate shots until one team fails to match the attempt of the other. The winner of the shootout will be awarded one goal.

Last season, the Wolves won 62 percent of games in which they scored the first goal.

SHOTS ON GOAL Last season, the Wolves outshot their opponents in 32 of their 76 regularseason games, and won 16 of those games (16-11-4-1).

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AS COMMITTED TO THE COMMUNITY AS TO THE PURSUIT OF ANOTHER CALDER CUP, THE CHICAGO WOLVES KEEP REINVENTING THEIR CHARITABLE INITIATIVES TO BENEFIT AS MANY ORGANIZATIONS AS POSSIBLE. For two decades, the Chicago Wolves have been as defined by the organization’s charitable efforts as they have by achievements on the ice.

Leading the charities charge is Wolves senior vice president of operations Courtney Mahoney, who selects the local organizations that will benefit from Chicago Wolves Charities, brainstorms new events and auctions each season, and shepherds players to appearances throughout the city and suburbs.

“As far as our charities stuff, I just think it’s the right thing to do,” she said. “We feel, as an organization, that we’re part of this community and it’s our responsibility to give back as much as possible and to give back to the people who are so wonderful at supporting us. I think we believe strongly in what we do here.”

Each offseason Mahoney and community relations coordinator Becky Jarosch sit down and discuss how they can not only improve fan experiences at the events they put on, but how they can generate even more money for charity.

“We always have a goal in mind, which is to fundraise as much as possible,” Mahoney said. “It’s asking a lot of our fans. Becky and I ask ourselves what worked and what didn’t and if our fans are going to give money to Chicago Wolves Charities, we want to make sure the events are really great. We want quality over quantity. We want our fans to have fun and to get a lot of bang for their buck.”

“I get to know a lot of our fans at home games when they visit the Customer Service Booth,” Jarosch said. “They care so much about our causes and have such a passion for the team.

We take a lot of pride in making sure they know we appreciate their contributions by coming up with fresh event ideas.”

With that in mind, Mahoney and Jarosch put on the organization’s first bowling event on Jan. 9. At Bowl for a Goal at Kings of Rosemont, fans were assigned to a player’s team

BOWL FOR A GOAL

and in many cases ended up schooling their leaders.

“I think it’s fun we did a new event and it was a big success,” Mahoney said. “We had never done it but the fans seemed to respond really well to it. Our fans are so generous with their time in supporting us and giving their donations, so we want to do things they enjoy and give them opportunities to interact with players. A lot of them are really good bowlers too! Some showed up with their own shoes and their own bags. Most of our players should stick to hockey.”

It isn’t always easy for new players to adjust to the Wolves’ prominent role in the community. Mahoney does her best to ease each new group into the routine at the beginning of the season, explaining how and why their participation is as crucial as everything else the team strives to accomplish.

“I meet with the players, the GM and coaches at the start of each season and we talk about how we do things here and as important as it is to win a Cup, the pressure is on to raise money for our charities,” she said. “It helps to have guys like (Mark) Mancari and (Mike) Davies and (Matt) Climie who have been there, done that with us and who can reinforce the idea for the younger guys and tell them that if they just take a day or a couple hours, we can raise a ton of money for charity.”

So while adding another Calder Cup ring to her collection would be nice, Mahoney is just as satisfied with the smaller victories that come from giving back.

“When you see a kid come out to Read to Succeed who has come out year after year and has kind of grown up with it, that’s cool,” she said. “At the season ticket holder party (in January), a girl came up to me and gave me a hug because she just wanted to meet (defenseman) Brent Regner and we hooked it up. That’s really fun for us, because it maybe means we’re having a real impact.”

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