THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHICAGO WOLVES
VOL. 9 ISSUE 2
IN 2012, THE CALL OF A LIFETIME WAS MADE. NOW STARRING ALL-STAR HOCKEY AND PERPETUAL HAPPINESS
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WOLVES HISTORY
THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS The Chicago Wolves are the proud owners of four league championships: The International Hockey League’s Turner Cup in 1998 and 2000 and the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup in 2002 and 2008. It takes a team full of strong performers – superb playmakers, stalwart goaltenders and stay-at-home defensemen — in order to hoist a Cup and raise a banner to the rafters. But every championship team has a player who can’t be equaled by the opponent. That man earns an extra measure of immortality by earning the award that goes to the Most Valuable Player in the postseason. Here’s how the Wolves won their four titles and the four men who earned the MVP honors once the job was done.
1998
CHICAGO 4, DETROIT 3 In just their fourth year of existence, the Wolves earned their first trip to a Final and found themselves locked in a hard-fought battle with the defending champion Detroit Vipers. After the teams split the first six games, tensions were so high for Game 7 at Allstate Arena that the teams engaged in a brawl at the end of warmups. Once play began, the sellout crowd of 16,701 was treated to a taut thriller that was scoreless through two periods. Then Chris Marinucci and Alexander Semak delivered goals 24 seconds apart early in the third and the Wolves claimed their first title with a 3-0 victory.
MVP: ALEXANDER SEMAK When the Ufa, Russia, native joined the Wolves prior to the 1997-98 season, the 31-year-old center was coming off six seasons in the National Hockey League. Semak shared fourth on the Wolves with 61 points during 1997-98, but he cranked up his production during the Turner Cup Playoffs and led the Wolves with 27 points (10 goals, 17 assists) in 22 games. WHERE HE IS NOW: Semak is the general manager for Salavat Yuleav, the KHL club for which he grew up playing. He also serves as a Deputy for the Bashkortostan State Assembly in his hometown of Ufa.
2000
CHICAGO 4, GRAND RAPIDS 2 After posting the IHL’s best regular-season record and blasting through the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Wolves met the Eastern Division champion Grand Rapids Griffins in the Final. The Wolves missed a chance to close out the series in Game 5 at home, but Chicago rallied to claim the Turner Cup with a 3-1 Game 6 triumph at Grand Rapids. Center Derek Plante, who rejoined the team just three weeks earlier, scored a pair of goals 26 seconds apart in the second period to kickstart the Wolves’ celebration.
MVP: ANDREI TREFILOV Similar to Alexander Semak, goaltender Andrei Trefilov made his mark in Russia before coming to North America to test his skills. Trefilov arrived after winning an Olympic gold medal playing for the Unified Team in 1992. He logged time with the Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres and Chicago Blackhawks – posting a 12-25-4 record with a 3.45 goalsagainst average – before joining the Wolves for the 19992000 season. The 30-year-old Trefilov and Wendell Young split the 16 Turner Cup Playoff games right down the middle, but Trefilov posted an absurd 7-1 record, 1.35 GAA, and .950 save percentage to earn the Poile Trophy. WHERE HE IS NOW: Works as a sports agent.
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WOLVES HISTORY
2002
CHICAGO 4, BRIDGEPORT 1 The Wolves’ first season in the American Hockey League was a struggle. After finishing the regular season just 6 games above the .500 mark, the team had to win a best-of-three qualifying series just to reach the quarterfinals. But as the playoffs progressed, the Wolves gained steam and captured 12 of their last 14 games to win the Calder Cup. The capper was a Game 5 thriller at Allstate Arena that needed two overtimes to decide. Center Yuri Butsayev scored 2:05 into the second OT to earn a 4-3 win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
MVP: PASI NURMINEN After playing for several years in his native Finland, including one season where he was named the top goalie in the Finnish Elite League, Pasi Nurminen was selected in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers. Given that he already was 25, Nurminen came straight to America and split his regular season between the Wolves and the Thrashers. Nurminen had the highest goals-against average among the three Wolves goalies during the regular season, but he transformed into a stopper during the Calder Cup Playoffs. Nurminen appeared in 21 of the team’s 25 postseason games and produced a 15-5 record with 2 shutouts and a 1.94 GAA. He was in net when the Wolves captured the Calder Cup on June 3, 2002, and subsequently received the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as Playoff MVP. WHERE HE IS NOW: Nurminen served as Atlanta’s primary goaltender from 2002-04 before returning to Europe. He became the Finnish National Team’s goaltender coach for a time and now works as an assistant coach for the Pelicans in the Finnish Elite League.
2008
CHICAGO 4, WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON 2 This Wolves squad was one for the ages. John Anderson’s team won 13 of its first 14 games and rolled to 111 points during the regular season. Chicago faced the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Penguins in the Calder Cup Final and took the first three games by a combined 15-7 score. After the Penguins rallied to win twice at home, the Wolves returned to Allstate Arena and captured the Game 6 clincher 5-2. Center Jason Krog assisted Nathan Oystrick on Game 6’s first goal, then scored the Wolves’ next three goals to thrill the Allstate Arena crowd.
MVP: JASON KROG During the magical 2007-08 season, Jason Krog teamed up on a line with Darren Haydar and Brett Sterling and led the American Hockey League in goals (39), assists (73) and points (112) on his way to the regular-season MVP award. Not that anyone considered it a fluke, but Krog repeated his feat during the Calder Cup Playoffs. The 32-year-old center piled up 12 goals (tied with Haydar), 26 assists and 38 points in 24 games to pace the Wolves to a fourth championship in 11 seasons. He became the first player to win the Les Cunningham Award (for the regular-season MVP) and the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy (for playoff MVP). WHERE HE IS NOW: After his fourth and final season with the Wolves in 2010-11, Krog has spent the last five years playing in Europe. The 40-year-old helped France’s Rouen Dragons win the 2016 IIHF Continental Cup, then signed a contract to play in Norway for Lorenskog.
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WOLVES OWNERSHIP
DON LEVIN CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD / GOVERNOR Donald R. Levin (luh-VIN) 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 good 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 encourage fans to provide the dogs a forever home. The Adopt-A-Dog program found homes for 1,281 dogs in its first 16 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 18 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 VICE CHAIRMAN 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 45 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 Urbana-Champaign 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. They also have four grandchildren: Emmie, Macartny, Sienna and Elle.
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WENDELL YOUNG GENERAL MANAGER During Wendell Young’s first seven seasons as the Chicago Wolves general manager, the team has compiled a .582 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 53-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. 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.
BILL BENTLEY ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER 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 47-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.
GENE UBRIACO DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY OPERATIONS 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.
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A NEW SEASON, A NEW BEGINNING MEGAN TAKES ADVANTAGE OF WOLVES’ ADOPT-A-DOG NIGHT BY JASMINE GROTTO | PHOTO ALEX CASSTEVENS
The start of hockey season marks a new beginning. For some players – especially American Hockey League players – that new beginning also means a new team in a new town with new teammates and, sometimes, new roommates. For center Wade Megan his new beginning is playing for the Wolves in Chicago with brand new teammates and, yes, a new roommate. However, Megan didn’t meet his new roommate until the second game of the season, the Wolves home opener on Oct. 15. In fact, Megan didn’t get to see his new roommate, Millie, until after the game when his girlfriend, Alex, called to say she was bringing home a dog. The Chicago Wolves 23rd home opener marked the 17th season the organization has been holding Adopt-A-Dog Nights. In partnership with City of Chicago’s Department of Animal Care and Control, the Wolves host Adopt-A-Dog Nights one Saturday each month throughout the season. The team has helped find forever homes for nearly 1,300 dogs. Several of those canines have found refuge with members of the Chicago Wolves family, including team playby-play announcer Jason Shaver, team president Mike Gordon and team chairman of the board – the man to whom this cause is the nearest and dearest – Don Levin.
Megan, however, is the first player in the Chicago Wolves family to take home a pet through the program.
she enjoys the company and the friendly friction of building her canine relationship with Millie.
“We had been talking about getting a second dog,” Megan said. “And my girlfriend saw her, loved her and asked if we could take her home for a few days to see how it went with our other dog.
“They generally play really well together,” Megan said. “Every now and then we’ll hear a little bark or a small skirmish will break out and we have to separate them, but they’re just being dogs.
“We took her home, talked about it and the dogs occupied each other pretty well, so we decided to keep her.”
“And when we put Millie in her crate at night, Kita sits there and cries because she misses her and wants to play.”
Millie, a pitbull mix, marked the second time Megan gained a new roommate to start the season. Last year, Wade and Alex decided to adopt a dog as part of their new beginning, moving from San Antonio, Texas, to Portland, Maine, when Megan started playing for the Pirates.
It’s only been about a month since Millie was welcomed into the house, but Megan is confident she’s a perfect fit and she and Kita will be great buddies.
The lifetime dog lovers adopted their first dog together, Kita – a boxerhound-pitbull mix – through the Maine Lab Rescue. After being approved for adoption, Megan made sure he was one of the first people at the pick-up center. He saw Kita and took her home and he and Alex, and Kita, couldn’t be happier. “That was a big thing for Alex and I.” Megan said, “There’s just so many dogs that need a place to go, a home, so that’s why we went [the adoption] route.” Almost a year later, the trio is again pleased with the addition to their household. Especially 1-year-old Kita;
THERE’S JUST SO MANY DOGS THAT NEED A PLACE TO GO, A HOME SO THAT’S WHY WE WENT [THE ADOPTION] ROUTE. “They’ve been good,” Megan said. “Millie likes to test her boundaries with Kita, but that’s all part of the process.” The Wolves host the second and third of this season’s seven Adopt-A-Dog Nights on Nov. 26 and Dec. 3. Dogs available for adoption can be found on the concourse in the South Lobby inside Allstate Arena once doors open for the evening’s game.
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MEET THE WOLVES
#2 KEVIN TANSEY
#3 TOMMY VANNELLI
#4 MORGAN ELLIS
#6 VINCE DUNN
D / H: 6-4 W: 220 February 22, 1993 Hammond, Ontario
D / H: 6-2 W: 185 January 26, 1995 Minnetonka, Minnesota
D / H: 6-1 W: 208 April 30, 1992 Summerside, Prince Edward Island
D / H: 6-0 W: 192 October 29, 1996 Lindsay, Ontario
#7 DANNY KRISTO
#8 ALEX FRIESEN
#9 ANDREW AGOZZINO
#10 CONNOR BLEACKLEY
RW / H: 6-0 W: 188 June 18, 1990 Edina, Minnesota
C / H: 5-10 W: 184 January 30, 1991 St. Catharines, Ontario
LW / H: 5-9 W: 185 January 3, 1991 Kleinburg, Ontario
C / H: 6-0 W: 201 February 7, 1996 High River, Alberta
#12 WADE MEGAN
#13 LANDON FERRARO
#15 MACKENZIE
#17 SAMUEL BLAIS
C / H: 6-1 W: 194 July 22, 1990 Canton, New York
C / H: 6-0 W: 183 August 8, 1991 Trail, British Columbia
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LW / H: 6-1 W: 193 June 17, 1996 Montmagny, Quebec
#18 KENNY AGOSTINO
#21 SCOOTER VAUGHAN
#22 IVAN BARBASHEV
#23 MAGNUS PAAJARVI
LW / H: 6-0 W: 205 April 30, 1992 Morristown, New Jersey
D / H: 6-1 W: 202 April 8, 1989 Placentia, California
C / H: 6-0 W: 195 December 14, 1995 Moscow, Russia
LW / H: 6-2 W: 205 April 12, 1991 Norrkoping, Sweden
LW / H: 6-2 W: 209 March 9, 1994 Troy, Michigan
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#24 JORDAN SCHMALTZ
#25 CHRIS BUTLER
#26 BRYCE GERVAIS
#27 JORDAN CARON
D / H: 6-2 W: 200 October 8, 1993 Verona, Wisconsin
D / H: 6-1 W: 200 October 27, 1986 St. Louis, Missouri
RW / H: 5-9 W: 174 February 26, 1992 Battleford, Saskatchewan
RW / H: 6-2 W: 206 November 2, 1990 Sayabec, Quebec
#28 JACOB DOTY
#29 BRETT STERLING
#31 PHEONIX COPLEY
#35 JORDAN BINNINGTON
RW / H: 6-3 W: 234 June 19, 1993 Billings, Montana
LW / H: 5-7 W: 174 April 24, 1984 Los Angeles, California
G / H: 6-3 W: 201 January 18, 1992 North Pole, Alaska
G / H: 6-2 W: 179 July 11, 1993 Richmond Hill, Ontario
#36 JUSTIN SELMAN
#38 GUS YOUNG
#39 BRAD HUNT
F / H: 60 W: 198 October 2, 1993 Upper Saddle River, NJ
D / H: 6-2 W: 200 July 10, 1991 Dedham, Massachusetts
D / H: 5-9 W: 185 August 24, 1988 Maple Ridge, British Columbia
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IN 2012, THE CALL OF A LIFETIME WAS MADE. NOW STARRING ALL-STAR HOCKEY AND PERPETUAL HAPPINESS
BRAD HUNT Chicago Wolves Present
PLAYING TO RAVE REVIEWS V a true story BY LINDSEY WILLHITE, PHOTOS BY ROSS DETTMAN
Chicago Wolves defenseman Brad Hunt knows movies. Perhaps he knows a little too much about movies. How does the 28-year-old three-time AHL all-star from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, unwind after a Wolves practice? With a movie. “He’ll come home and see what movies are on TV right away,” said his wife, Katie. “It’ll be on for five seconds and I’ll ask, ‘Brad, what movie is that?’ And he’ll rattle it off. It’s crazy.” Two or three nights per week, Brad and Katie leave their northwest suburban home to see a movie in the theatre. They go so frequently, they own an AMC Stubs Premium membership that allows them, among other things, to upgrade the size of Brad’s Coke that he purchases every time they go. What types of movies does he like? It’s easier to list the genre he doesn’t. And once you understand his personality – Katie describes Brad as “so happy all the time and laid-back” – then you can probably guess which type of movie bothers him.
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“I’m not a horror movie guy,” Brad said. “Katie loves horror movies and she usually has to go to those with my sister, Brittany. I’m not big into the horror. See, that stuff to me is real. I’m OK with thrillers, but if you’re talking about deep souls and demonic kind of things, I’m not into it.” His favorite movie is “Shawshank Redemption.” He particularly enjoys Kevin Costner, Mark Wahlberg, Robert De Niro and Adam Sandler vehicles. He loves sports movies (particularly “Miracle”, “Field of Dreams” and “Major League”), those based on true stories (“Snowdon” and “Deepwater Horizon” being recent examples) and the Marvel Superheroes series (which helps to explain why their dog, a rescued Golden Retriever, is named Thor). When he’s selecting a movie to see, he’s wholly uninterested in whether the critics gave it four stars or no stars. “My whole thing is, I can’t listen to someone’s view of a movie,” Brad said. “I have to go and see it for myself. If someone says it’s stupid, I’m still going to go see it because I want to see what it’s like. Everyone has
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different views of movies. I’m going to go to a “Fast and the Furious” movie and I’m not going to expect it to be realistic. I’m going to watch it for what it’s going to be.” Hunt’s fascination with movies began as a child at his boyhood home an hour east of Vancouver and picked up steam when he attended Bemidji State in Minnesota from 2008-12. He and Katie met there as freshmen and many of their dates happened at the Bemidji Theatre, which was the sleepy town’s primary provider of entertainment. “Even now, my parents and friends will drive past the Bemidji Theatre, take a picture of it and send to me and say, ‘This is your second home. Do you miss it?’ Katie said with a laugh. The couple bought so many DVDs during the pre-Netflix era, their collection is too heavy and unwieldy to travel with them to their hockey-season home. Brad’s father, Steve, recently found more than 100 of Brad’s and Katie’s DVDs in their home. Dozens of their other DVDs reside with Katie’s parents, Mark and Polly, in their Grand Rapids, Minnesota home. “In college, we were always going to the Blockbuster or the Walmart buying the $5 movies and getting the collection going,” Brad said. “Now you’re like, ‘Holy smokes, we’ve wasted a lot of money on movies.’ But you really didn’t have cable in those days, so that’s how you watched movies.” Now that the Hunts’ love for movies has been established, let’s use a time-honored cinema technique and introduce a few flashback sequences to relive some highlights of Brad’s life.
HOME ALONE When Brad was a toddler, his father worked the graveyard shift. That meant their daily routine featured an afternoon nap. One such afternoon, the neighbor lady who lived a few blocks away woke up Steve with her knock on the family’s front door. When Steve answered, he was horrified to discover the kind lady had Brad in tow. Turns out Brad had woken up, entered the garage to find a hockey helmet, grabbed a screwdriver for an unsuccessful attempt to remove the facemask and proceeded to head out for a walk around the neighborhood. “He was out there in a shirt and a diaper and bare feet,” Steve said. “And it was chilly…probably October or November. Our dog stayed right with him the whole way, but, oh, was that scary. Thankfully that was my brother’s neighbor and she knew where he lived. Can you imagine?”
He’d said, ‘Grandma, you’ve got to sing the hockey song. So she would sing the Canadian national anthem and then he’d start playing hockey in her kitchen.” - STEVE HUNT, FATHER
Somehow hockey had a way of working into many of Brad’s young escapades, which makes sense because he started skating and playing at age 2. When he’d visit Grandma Gail’s house, he had a consistent request.
“I was 5 or 6, probably, and tagging along all the time,” Brad said. “I was the one digging the beers out of the coolers and throwing them to the guys after the games. That’s what I was taught to do: Get in the cooler and throw the beers out.”
“He’d said, ‘Grandma, you’ve got to sing the hockey song,’ ” Steve said. “So she would sing the Canadian national anthem and then he’d start playing hockey in her kitchen.”
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Brad also loved attending his father’s games. Steve was a goaltender for a strong senior league team that used to travel around British Columbia, though their regular rink was Queen’s Park Arena in New Westminster (coincidentally, the place where the player tryout scenes were filmed for “Miracle”).
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During his grade school years, Brad established a daily routine. As soon as school ended, he rushed home to put on his rollerblades and head out into his cul-de-sac to play street hockey. Regardless of whether he was out there by himself or playing with buddies and the neighborhood dads, he stayed outside until called in for dinner.
“When I was younger, I had a pretty good wrist shot because that’s all that I ever worked on was shooting the puck,” Brad said with a smile. “I’d rip all of the pucks, put ‘em all back in the bucket. Rip ‘em, put ‘em all back in the bucket. We had a lot of pucks.” Brad’s routine caused Steve a bit of consternation because the family’s garage couldn’t take the barrage. “We’ve got new doors now, but we used to have wood particle doors and we had a couple puck marks from where they went through the doors. There was drywall broken.” That’s when Steve brought home a 4-by-4 plastic sheet from work and attached to a piece of plywood. That gave Brad a smooth, sturdy surface that he could place in the back yard and enable him to fire pucks there without destroying the house.
MIRACLE Despite Brad’s devotion to the sport, nobody expected the 5-foot-9, 185-pound defenseman to make a career out of hockey. “To tell the truth, not really,” Steve said. “I thought he would play Junior.” When Brad was 15 and hit the Midget level, he found himself on the B team. Good luck finding many other AHL or NHL players who spent time at that level. But Brad started progressing quickly shortly afterward and earned a scholarship to Bemidji State. During his freshman year, the Beavers enjoyed one of the most miraculous runs in college hockey annals. After starting the 2008-09 season with a 1-6 record, Bemidji State snuck into the NCAA tournament as the 16th and final seed. Once in the tournament, the Beavers shocked No. 2 ranked Notre Dame 5-1 and then bounced No. 9 Cornell 4-1 to become the first No. 16 seed in NCAA history to reach the Frozen Four. The New York Times flew out to Bemidji, a town of 13,000 people, to chronicle the little program and town that could. That the Beavers fell to Miami Ohio in the national semifinals was almost beside the point. “We embraced being the underdog,” Brad said. “That’s what made Bemidji what it is, because it is a smaller town and the people there are super hard-working people. I think 1,000 people made it out to Washington, D.C. and showed their support. To see our corner all green and white was awesome. My parents and grandpa flew down. Katie and her friends drove down from Minnesota. “Our team took a charter flight to Washington, D.C. – and we never took a charter flight. So that was really cool. And
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when we landed, we had a full police escort. We didn’t stop at any lights. All cars moved out of the way. The whole trip was awesome. It was an experience I’ll never forget.”
INVINCIBLE One of Brad’s favorite movies is “Invincible,” the 2006 movie starring Mark Wahlberg that chronicled the true story of Vince Papale -- a regular 30-year-old guy from Philadelphia who clawed his way on to the Philadelphia Eagles roster for a couple years. Papale’s rise reminds him somewhat of his professional hockey career, except for at least one crucial element. “My life wasn’t really hard like that,” Brad said. “My parents did everything for us. Underdog-wise, maybe. Nobody expected me to make the NHL. But my upbringing was good. He didn’t have a good upbringing.” Brad never was drafted by an NHL team. When he wrapped up his Bemidji State career in March 2012, he wondered whether he’d played his last high-level game. Then his agent, former Wolves standout Dan Plante, contacted him with a proposition. He called me and said, ‘Hey, do you want to go to Chicago?’ ” Brad recalled. “ ‘Well…yeah!’ Being in Bemidji, I could see that Craig MacTavish was the coach for the Wolves and I’m like, ‘Holy smokes, I’m going to get to play for Mac-T?” And you looked at the guys on the team and I was like, ‘What!” (Steve) Reinprecht was on the team. (Darren) Haydar. So many guys. I just thought it was the coolest thing.” “It didn’t really sink in until I got here with the Wolves. ‘What would I be doing if I wasn’t here?’ And I thought, I have a really good chance to make a life of this. That’s when it sunk in that I could get to play hockey for a living.“ Hunt excelled with the Wolves through the end of the 2012-13 season. He even scored his first AHL goal in Abbotsford, B.C., in front of more than 100 family members and friends who made the short trip from Maple Ridge.
Underdog-wise, maybe. Nobody expected me to make the NHL. Then MacTavish, who had moved on to run the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers, remembered Hunt’s 100 m.p.h. slap shot and signed him to an NHL contract. He made his NHL debut on Jan. 3, 2014, and had the good fortune of scoring his first NHL goal at Vancouver in front of family. “I’m a pretty lucky person,” Brad said. V
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CRAIG BERUBE HEAD COACH Craig Berube was named Chicago Wolves head coach on June 29, 2016. This marks Berube’s 12th season as a coach, which includes two seasons as the head coach for the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. The 50-year-old Calahoo, Alberta, native spent 11 years as a coach in the Philadelphia organization prior to joining the Wolves. He signed during the 2003-04 season to serve as a player/assistant coach for the AHL’s Philadelphia Phantoms. In 2006, he was promoted to Phantoms head coach, but worked only six games (3-2-1-0) before accepting a job as Flyers assistant. After completing the 2006-07 season with the Flyers, Berube returned to the Phantoms and guided the team to a 46-27-4-3 record (.619) and a berth in the East Division Final. Berube rejoined the Flyers coaching staff for the 2008-09 season and served as an assistant until being elevated to the head-coaching spot 3 games into the 2013-14 season. He directed the Flyers to third place in the Metropolitan Division and a Stanley Cup Playoffs bid. He also handled the 2014-15 season and posted a 75-58-28 record (.553) during his Flyers tenure. Prior to his coaching career, Berube played in the NHL from 1987-2003. During his 17-year career, which featured stops with Philadelphia, Toronto, Calgary, Washington and the New York Islanders, Berube notched 61 goals, 98 assists and 3,149 penalty minutes during 1,054 regular-season games. He stands seventh on the NHL’s all-time list for penalty minutes.
DARRYL SYDOR ASSISTANT COACH Two-time Stanley Cup champion Darryl Sydor joined the Chicago Wolves as an assistant coach on July 25, 2016. Sybor, 44, spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach for the Minnesota Wild (NHL). The Wild posted a regular-season record of 188-143-45 (.560) during his tenure behind the bench and earned Stanley Cup Playoff berths each of the last four years. He entered the coaching profession with the Houston Aeros (AHL) in 2010-11. Prior to becoming a coach, the Edmonton, Alberta, native enjoyed a 19-year NHL career that included All-Star Game appearances in 1998 and 1999. Selected by the Los Angeles Kings with the seventh overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, the 6-foot-1, 211-pound defenseman jumped from the Kamloops Blazers (WHL) to the Kings at the age of 19. Sydor stacked up 98 goals and 409 assists in 1,291 regular-season games for the Kings, Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues.
DANIEL TKACZUK ASSISTANT COACH Daniel Tkaczuk joined the Chicago Wolves as an assistant coach on July 25, 2016. Tkaczuk, 37, spent the last four seasons coaching in the Ontario Hockey League. He served as an assistant coach for Kitchener last season and helped the Rangers reach the second round of the OHL playoffs. He spent 2012-15 with the Owen Sound Attack. The Toronto native was the No. 6 overall selection by the Calgary Flames in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Tkaczuk posted 4 goals and 7 assists in 19 NHL games with the Flames in 2000-01. He appeared in 286 regular-season AHL games – suiting up for the Saint John Flames, Worcester IceCats, Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Syracuse Crunch, Rochester Americans and Hartford Wolf Pack -- and notched 59 goals and 109 assists. In 2001, he delivered 10 goals and 9 assists to help Saint John capture the Calder Cup.
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HOCKEY 101
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HOCKEY LINGO
ASSIST
BETWEEN THE PIPES
BISCUIT IN THE BASKET
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CHICKLETS
EMPTY NET GOAL
An assist is credited to a player who helps set up a goal. Assists are awarded to the last two men to handle the puck immediately preceding the goal.
Area of the net the goalie defends.
Shooting the puck into the net.
A clear scoring opportunity where no defensive player is between the puck carrier and the goaltender.
Teeth.
A goal scored against an opponent that has pulled the goalie for an extra attacker in an attempt to tie the game.
FACE-OFF
HAT TRICK
LIGHT THE LAMP
OFFSIDE
TOP SHELF
TURNOVER
The action of an official dropping the puck between the sticks of two opposing players to start play.
When a player scores three goals (or more) in a game.
What happens when a team scores. The goal judge at the end of the ice flips on the red light.
A team is offside when a player crosses the offensive zone blue line before the puck does.
When a player tries to beat the goaltender with a shot into the upper part of the net. Also known as “top cheese,” “cookie jar” and “water bottle.”
Losing control of the puck to the opposing team.
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Penalty minutes incurred by forward Zach O’Brien in 62 games, which led the AHL and set a franchise record for fewest penalty minutes.
Pat Cannone recorded two hat tricks in a 10-day stretch (Jan. 17 at Grand Rapids and Jan. 26 at Iowa). That’s the second-shortest time span between a pair of hat tricks in franchise annals. Steve Maltais delivered hat tricks on back-to-back nights in October 1995.
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Pat Cannone became the third Wolves player to win the Most Valuable Player award at an All-Star Game. Cannone scored 3 goals and handed out 1 assist to lead the Central Division to the AHL All-Star Classic title.
When the Wolves crushed Manitoba 8-2 on Dec. 2 at Allstate Arena, it marked the 500th home win in franchise history.
(Joining Steve Larouche in 2001 and Brett Sterling in 2007)
SINGLE-SEASON FRANCHISE RECORDS GOALS V 60 STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97)
PENALTY MINUTES V 336 KEVIN MACDONALD . . . . . . . . . . . (1994-95)
ASSISTS V 91 ROB BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1995-96)
PLUS/MINUS V +47 ARTURS KULDA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2009-10)
GAME-WINNING GOALS V 10 CHRIS MARINUCCI . . . . . . . . . . . . (1998-99) BRETT STERLING . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) MARK MANCARI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2011-12) SHANE HARPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2014-15)
WINS V 38 KARI LEHTONEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2004-05) SHUTOUTS V 7 JAKE ALLEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2013-14)
ALL-TIME FRANCHISE RECORDS GOALS LEADERS 1. STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 2. BRETT STERLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 3. ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 4. DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 5. CHRIS MARINUCCI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 6. JASON KROG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 7. STEVE LAROUCHE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8. J.P. VIGIER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 DEREK MACKENZIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 10. SCOTT PEARSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
GOALS-AGAINST AVERAGE LEADERS (MINIMUM 25 APPEARANCES)
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RICHARD SHULMISTRA. . . . . . . . . . 1.89 JAKE ALLEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.03 KARI LEHTONEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 ANDREI TREFILOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36 EDDIE LACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.46 JORDAN BINNINGTON. . . . . . . . . . 2.59 DREW MacINTYRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66 ROBERT GHERSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 FRED BRATHWAITE . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68 ONDREJ PAVELEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.69
LES CUNNINGHAM AWARD (AHL Regular-Season MVP) DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) WILLIE MARSHALL AWARD (AHL’S Leading Goal-Scorer) BRETT STERLING . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) LEO LAMOUREUX MEMORIAL TROPHY (IHL Regular-Season Scoring Champion) ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1995-96) ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97) STEVE MALTAIS. . . . . . . . . . . . (1999-2000) STEVE LAROUCHE . . . (2000-01) (Shared) JOHN B. SOLLENBERGER TROPHY (AHL’S Leading Regular-Season Scorer) STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2002-03) DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) IHL MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD (Outstanding Community Service) TIM BRESLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97) CHRIS MARINUCCI . . . . . . . . . . . . (1998-99) WENDELL YOUNG . . . . . . . . . . . . (2000-01) YANICK DUPRE MEMORIAL AWARD (AHL Man of the Year) KURTIS FOSTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . (2003-04)
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