THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHICAGO WOLVES
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Dear Fans, It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the historic 2015-16 American Hockey League season, one that is sure to be one of the most memorable campaigns ever. We are celebrating our 80th anniversary season literally from coast to coast: From the shores of the Atlantic to our five new members in California, all 30 teams will hit the ice to continue a tradition of excellence that has been the hallmark of the American Hockey League since 1936. The AHL remains proud of its role in developing more than 88 percent of today’s National Hockey League players, as well as the vast majority of the NHL’s coaches, managers, training staffs, broadcasters and officials. In total, nearly 350 AHL players were recalled to the NHL last season alone, and more than 250 former first- and second-round NHL draft picks developed their skills in the AHL. And through the years, our loyal and passionate fans have enjoyed cheering for more than 100 future Hockey Hall of Famers, and have witnessed the triumphs of more than 100 Calder Cup champions who would go on to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup as well. To our new fans in Bakersfield, Ontario, San Diego, San Jose and Stockton; to our returning fans in Manitoba; to all of you who cheer for AHL teams across North America -- We are excited to have you join us from the excitement of opening weekend, to the 2016 AHL All-Star Classic in Syracuse, and through the thrills and emotion of the Calder Cup Playoffs. On behalf of all of our teams, players and staff, thank you again for your continuing support of the AHL. I wish you the utmost enjoyment of all the excitement that our 2015-16 season has in store. Sincerely,
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WOLVES HISTORY
A WINNING HISTORY WHEN A TEAM RAISES THE CUP AT THE END OF THE SEASON – AS THE CHICAGO WOLVES HAVE DONE FOUR TIMES IN THEIR 21-YEAR HISTORY – THERE’S A TENDENCY FOR THE HIGHLIGHT REELS TO OVERLOAD ON THE FINAL GOAL AND THE CUP-WINNING CELEBRATION. BUT IT REQUIRES TWO MONTHS OF POSTSEASON DEDICATION, COMING ON TOP OF A RUGGED REGULAR SEASON, IN ORDER TO EARN THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED A CHAMPION. MOREOVER, THERE’S ALWAYS A GAME WHERE A TEAM MUST DIG DEEP TO OVERCOME A DEFICIT AND STAY ON THE PATH TO THE CUP. THESE SERVED AS THOSE MOMENTS WHEN THE WOLVES HOISTED THE 1998 AND 2000 TURNER CUPS AND THE 2002 AND 2008 CALDER CUPS.
MAY 30, 1998:
GAME 1 OF THE TURNER CUP FINAL The Wolves entered their first Final as the International Hockey League’s top-ranked offense while the defending champion Detroit Vipers showed up with the IHL’s top-ranked defense. Steve Maltais punctured that defense just 1:57 into the night with a power-play goal, then he added an even-strength goal in the second period to give the Wolves a 2-0 lead after 40 minutes. But goaltender Wendell Young, who stopped all 20 shots he faced in the first two periods, couldn’t come out for the third period due to dehydration. The Vipers needed just two minutes to pull into a 2-2 tie, but Alexander Semak regained the lead with 8:11 to play and Tim Breslin added an empty-netter in the final seconds for a 4-2 Wolves win that set the tone for a titanic series.
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WOLVES HISTORY
MAY 16, 2000:
GAME 3 OF THE WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL After sweeping four straight from the Long Beach Ice Dogs in the International Hockey League’s Western Conference Semifinal – giving the Wolves 28 wins in their last 32 games – head coach John Anderson’s crew stubbed their toes with home losses to Houston in the first two games of the Western Conference Final. To make the team’s predicament worse, the Wolves allowed the Aeros a 3-0 head start in Game 3 at the Compaq Center. But Chicago reeled off the first four goals of the second period – Tom Tilley, Bob Nardella, Dallas Eakins and Steve Larouche supplying the firepower – to trigger a crucial 6-4 come-frombehind victory. Once Larouche scored the go-ahead goal at 4:58 of the third period, the Wolves never trailed in a Western Conference Final game the rest of the way.
APRIL 10, 2002:
GAME 2 OF THE WESTERN CONFERENCE QUALIFYING SERIES In their debut American Hockey League season, the Wolves entered the Calder Cup Playoffs as the No. 7 seed – the team’s worst postseason seed to that point. That meant the team had to start with a best-of-three series against the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks. Cincinnati took Game 1 on the Wolves’ home ice and forced sudden-death overtime in Game 2. The Mighty Ducks had a shot at a wide-open net to take the series, but goaltender Frederic Cassivi lunged across the crease and made an unbelievable save to keep the Wolves alive. Zdenek Blatny came through with the goal in the second OT for the first of the team’s AHL-record 17 postseason wins. Forward Dan Snyder was one of many Wolves heroes during the playoffs as he set an AHL mark with 5 game-winning goals.
MAY 11, 2008:
GAME 6 OF THE WEST DIVISION FINAL The Wolves’ run almost ended in the American Hockey League’s quarterfinal round when they faced a talented Rockford team. After the Wolves took the first two games, the IceHogs rallied to take three in a row to force Chicago to the brink of elimination. Then came the Mustache Rally. Forward Colin Stuart first donned a lip duster and the rest of the team joined the cause prior to Game 6. Trailing early, the Wolves reeled off four power-play goals in the second period to take the tilt 4-3 and went on to win the series in seven games. “That was a real turning point – in that game, in that series, and on our road to winning that championship,” said former forward Steve Martins. “Plus, how am I going to forget that mustache?”
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DON LEVIN Donald R. Levin founded DRL Enterprises, Inc., in 1969. The Glenview-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 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 devotes a healthy portion of his support to Chicago’s Department of Animal Care and Control (CACC). In cooperation with CACC, the Wolves host Adopt-a-Dog Night one Saturday night each month during the season and make it easy for fans to adopt dogs and provide them a forever home. The Adopt-A-Dog program found homes for 1,233 dogs in its first 15 seasons. In 2003, Levin purchased and donated the Animobile -- a mobile adoption unit and a modern clinic staffed by CACC veterinarians and adoption specialists. In 2014, he pledged a $2 million donation to CACC to spur an $8.2 million renovation. 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 17 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 1999-2000 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 live in the northern suburbs.
BUDDY MEYERS Buddy Meyers, a principal owner of the Wolves who founded the franchise 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, who was inducted into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame on Jan. 26, 2014, is a graduate of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and holds a juris doctor degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago Kent. He and Jill live in the River North area of Chicago and have five children between them: Justin, Lindsey, Zak, Brad, and Leslie.
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HOCKEY OPERATIONS
WENDELL YOUNG During Wendell Young’s first six seasons as the Chicago Wolves general manager, the team compiled a .598 winning percentage and captured three division titles: the 2010 West, 2012 Midwest and 2014 Midwest. Young has been a member of the Wolves organization in virtually every capacity — including player, coach, and executive — since the team’s inaugural campaign in 1994. He served as assistant coach and executive director of team relations for six seasons before transitioning into the general manager role in August 2009. The 52-year-old stands as the Wolves’ all-time leader among goaltenders in games (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 retired on Dec. 1, 2001 — becoming the first Wolves player to receive the honor. 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. 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. Young and his wife, Paula, reside in the northwest suburbs and have one daughter, Gabrielle, and two sons, Matt and Jack.
BILL BENTLEY Bill Bentley is in his seventh season as Wolves assistant general manager and stands as 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 15 years, which includes all four seasons that ended with a championship. The Chicago native joined the organization as a statistician in 1994 and was promoted to team services manager a year later. The 46-year-old spent 12 seasons as the director of hockey administration 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. Bentley and his wife, Jennifer, live in Chicago.
GENE UBRIACO Gene Ubriaco, who has been with the Wolves since the franchise’s inception in 1994, returns for his 19th season as the team’s director of hockey operations and seventh as senior advisor. Ubriaco served as the Wolves’ first head coach and guided the expansion team to a 3433-14 record and a berth in the Turner Cup playoffs. The 78-year-old Ubriaco began his coaching career at Lake Superior State University in 1972-73. He became the head coach of the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988. Under his tutelage, the Penguins posted a 50-47-9 record, shattered several team records, and advanced to the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a seven-year absence. The Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native posted 39 goals and 35 assists in 177 NHL regular-season games while playing with the Penguins (1967-68), the Oakland Seals (1968-69) and the Chicago Blackhawks (1969-70). He dedicates himself to numerous charitable causes, including the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association with which he has been involved since 1974. Ubriaco and his wife, Nella, have a daughter, Francine, and a son, Gene, and live in the western suburbs. BREAKAWAY MAGAZINE
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KEEPING UP WITH THE CARONS BY ANNA FOGEL | PHOTO BY ROSS DETTMAN
It’s all fun and games until your older sisters start to beat you up. With only a handful of fights under his belt in his professional career, throwing down isn’t exactly a significant part of Jordan Caron’s game, but that might be because he got it all out of his system when he was growing up in Sayabec, Quebec, with his five sisters. “They used to beat me up pretty good when I was young,” the 25-year-old Caron recalled. With two older sisters (Jessie, 33, Joanie, 30) and three younger sisters (Janick, 22, Meg Anne, 15, and Jade, 12), the Chicago Wolves forward was outnumbered – to say the least -in the Caron household, but the arguments, fights, and battles all came to an end when he turned 14 and moved more than 2,000 miles away to Saskatchewan to go to school and play at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame for a year. “It was tough, you know, my younger sisters were really young to deal with their older brother being gone and they took it pretty hard when I left,” Caron said. “I remember when I left, everybody was crying and it was like I was going off to war, like I was going overseas to fight or something.” Leaving his small town and his family behind as a teenager was anything but easy for Caron, who didn’t speak any English at the time. Although he felt fortunate to be suiting up for one of the top hockey programs in the world, the language barrier combined with trying to get accustomed to life in a small village of roughly 300 people made Caron ache for home. “A lot of phone calls to my mom and dad, crying, wanting to go back home, but it was good, you know,” Caron said. “It was really good hockey and it made me really mature at a young age and it made me go outside of my comfort zone.” The move wasn’t just beneficial for Caron’s development as a hockey player, though. The distance strengthened the relationship he had with his sisters that previously consisted of bickering and squabbling over essentially everything.
The constant arguing was replaced with a gratitude for his siblings that culminated in Caron imploring his parents to buy expensive plane tickets for him any time he had a short break from hockey and school because he “just wanted to go back so badly to see my family.” Following Caron’s year at Notre Dame, he moved about 30 minutes from his hometown to Rimouski, where he played three and a half seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and where he also “turned a corner on all the fighting” with his siblings.
THEY USED TO BEAT ME UP PRETTY GOOD WHEN I WAS YOUNG. “When I got back from Saskatchewan they liked me more, they appreciated me more because they missed me so much and that’s when we became so much closer.” And that is something that remains true to this day. While Caron’s time away from home has increased over the years as he has moved through the ranks of professional hockey, spending time with the Boston Bruins and Colorado Avalanche before landing with the Wolves this season, he makes a conscious effort to stay up to date with his sisters and maintain his role as a protective older brother. That ranges from keeping his 23-year-old sister Janick “away from hockey guys,” making sure the two youngest “stay on the right track,” and now it means being a great uncle to Jessie’s two kids (Rafalle, 4, and Tristan, 2) and Joanie’s three children (Eloise, 4, Hubert, 3, and Beatrice, 8 months). Not to mention being the godfather of Eloise and Tristan. So it’s true, distance truly makes the only brother grow fonder.
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BIG ERIAH HAYES ISN’T TOO BIG FOR HIS HOMETOWN BY LINDSEY WILLHITE | PHOTOS BY ROSS DETTMAN
IT’S A QUICK FOURHOUR DRIVE UP INTERSTATE 90 FROM CHICAGO TO LA CRESCENT, MINN., where Chicago Wolves right wing Eriah Hayes was born and raised and never intends to leave. Nestled in the southeast corner of the state and known as the “Apple Capital of Minnesota,” Hayes considers his hometown to be paradise. “We live right on the Mississippi River and we have the beautiful bluffs there, so it’s a really, really nice area,” Hayes said. “I played every sport under the sun and I’m a big hunter and fisherman. Anything to get outdoors.” As much as Hayes adores La Crescent, which is located across the Mississippi from La Crosse, Wis., the 5,000 people who live there might love him more. Look up La Crescent on Wikipedia and it lists two notable citizens: the 27-year-old Hayes and young YouTube sensation Connor Franta. When Hayes returned home during the summer of 2014 – months after scoring his first NHL goal for the San Jose Sharks – he agreed to do a meet-and-greet at the local arena as part of the town’s first “Rockin’ the Rink” youth hockey fundraiser. The organizers scheduled the meet-andgreet to last two hours, which seemed overly ambitious for such a small town. “I was thinking, ‘How many people are actually going to show up? They can see me around town,’ ” Hayes said. “But it was crazy. There was a line as long as you could see, just people waiting to get an autograph and picture. I didn’t expect that.” A visit to La Crescent High School affirms the community’s pride in their man. In the commons area that doubles as the cafeteria, there’s a giant mural on the wall that depicts Hayes’ first NHL goal. Three students captured the moment when he raised his arms in the air after beating Calgary’s Karri Romo with a one-timer from close range.
“All of his jerseys are hanging up in the arena. We’re sure proud of him.” “A lot of people showed up for the day when we dedicated the mural to him, including Eriah of course,” said La Crescent hockey coach JP Piché. “All of his jerseys are hanging up in the arena. We’re sure proud of him. He’s so humble and has worked hard for everything he’s achieved. He has always been a great advocate for a small town. He’s a guy that will do anything for you.” He’s a guy that did virtually everything during his career at La Crescent High School. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound Hayes was an all-conference baseball player who threw in the mid-to-high 80s before he partially tore the labrum in his right shoulder and moved to center field – and that was the least of his athletic achievements. For the soccer team, which Piché coached as well, he played goalkeeper and racked up 16 shutouts as a sophomore. That still ranks sixth on Minnesota’s all-time single-season list. He played soccer as a junior, too, but decided prior to his senior year to give football a whirl.
heart. Hayes finished his career ranked among the Top 10 goal scorers in Minnesota history – he scored 135 goals and handed out 99 assists in 105 games – and he got to do it on a strong team that included his younger sister, Brittany, as the goaltender. They played together on varsity for three years. “She was pretty good,” Eriah said. “I know guys would be frustrated not being able to score on her. The boys on our team really protected her and she held her own, for sure.” “They were all super-great with me,” Brittany said. “Very protective over me. And it helped that Eriah was on the team, because who was going to mess with his little sister? No one.” Despite all of his success on the ice, Hayes didn’t receive the same attention from colleges for hockey as for football. While he doesn’t intend it to be a knock against La Crescent, he wondered whether he was being overlooked because he grew up far from the Minnesota-St. Paul axis of excellence.
“I don’t know, I just wanted a new challenge,” Hayes said. “There was a new football coach coming in, a new system. I figured I could hop right in because everybody was on the same page, so why not try it out?”
“I’d always travel to try out for section teams and people wouldn’t know who I was,” Hayes said. “They’d cut me right away. It was like, ‘If I can’t make the section team…’ I don’t know if it (being from La Crescent) was it or if I wasn’t good enough – but I thought I was good enough for sure.
All he did was become an all-conference wide receiver and kicker. In one game, he booted a 37-yard field goal in the final seconds as La Crescent ended a rival’s 47-game winning streak. In La Crescent’s playoff game, he caught 8 passes for 195 yards and 4 touchdowns while kicking 4 extra points and 1 field goal – therefore accounting for all 31 of his team’s points.
“I had tried out for some USHL teams and gotten cut. I went to Sioux City and didn’t even make the All-Star Game. Again, it was like, ‘Am I kidding myself? Am I not as good as I think I am? I’m feeling good out there and scoring goals, but I feel like they’re looking right over me.’ ”
“At the end of my football season, I thought, ‘Oh, football is the way to go. I’m going to pursue this,’ ” Hayes said. “ ’I’m going to call these teams back and find out what this walk-on spot at Minnesota is like, see what they have to offer me.’ ”
Then came the break he was waiting for. Minnesota splits itself into eight sections for high school hockey. Every year in late March, the Ted Brill Great 8 brings together the top 20 seniors from each section to compete in a tournament scouted by many junior, college and professional teams. Hayes initially was listed as an alternate on the Section 6 roster, but he found a way into the lineup and wound up posting 2 goals and 2 assists in 3 games to help his team win the title.
But then hockey, his first love, regained the No. 1 spot in his
That led to an invitation to play for the Topeka RoadRunners
The University of Minnesota invited him to walk-on. North Dakota State and other schools offered scholarships. The unexpected attention turned Hayes’ head.
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MARK HARDY Mark Hardy is in his second season with the Wolves after being named an assistant coach on August 25, 2014. After spending 15 years in the National Hockey League as a defenseman, Hardy has accrued 20 years of experience behind the bench. Hardy joined the Wolves after three seasons in the ECHL with the Ontario Reign. He helped the Los Angeles Kings and Winnipeg Jets affiliate earn second-place finishes in the Western Conference each season he was on staff. The 56-year-old Samedan, Switzerland, native also owns 11 years of NHL coaching experience as he served on the staffs for Los Angeles (1999-2006, 2008-10) and the Chicago Blackhawks (2006-08). Hardy became known as a defensive specialist, which included overseeing the third-best penalty-killing unit in Kings history in 2001-02 (86.6 percent efficiency). Drafted by Los Angeles in the second round (30th overall) of the 1979 NHL Entry Draft, Hardy collected 368 points (62G, 306A) in 915 career regular-season games as a defenseman for the Kings, Minnesota North Stars, and New York Rangers. He finished his playing career with 70 points (18G, 52A) in 199 IHL games with Phoenix, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
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BOARDING
CHARGING
Called for any action which causes opponent to be thrown violently into the boards.
Called for taking three or more strides before checking opponent.
CROSSCHECKING
DELAYED PENALTY
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.
ELBOWING
HIGH-STICKING
HOLDING
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
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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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ALL-TIME POINTS LEADERS 1. STEVE MALTAIS
951
2. ROB BROWN
483
3. DARREN HAYDAR
368
4. JASON KROG
342
5. BRETT STERLING
308
6. BOB NARDELLA
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7. STEVE LAROUCHE
228
8. CHRIS MARINUCCI
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193
1 0. DEREK MACKENZIE
184
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Consecutive games started by Jordan Binnington, which set a franchise record for goaltenders.
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which tied the franchise record for most points in an All-Star Game.
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Appearances on ESPN SportsCenter’s list; right wing Ty Rattie earned the No. 1 nod on Dec. 26 for his no-look spin-a-rama goal at Milwaukee and left wing Magnus Paajarvi took No. 2 on March 27 when he whacked a puck out of mid-air for a top-shelf goal at Milwaukee.
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61
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56
5. RAY LEBLANC
53
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51
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43
8. PETER MANNINO
42
9. JAKE ALLEN
33
1 0. FRED BRATHWAITE
32
DREW MACINTYRE
32
ALL-TIME GAMES LEADERS 1. STEVE MALTAIS
839
2. BOB NARDELLA
476
3. DEREK MACKENZIE
377
4. KEVIN DOELL
375
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PENALTY MINUTES V 336 KEVIN MACDONALD . . . . . (1994-95)
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369
BRIAN SIPOTZ
369
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330
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