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FRONT OFFICE Seth Gold Irwin Jann Mike Gordon Wayne Messmer Dana Wildman

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OPERATIONS Courtney Mahoney Dan Harris Camille Colletti Holly Simms Joe Muting

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CREATIVE SERVICES Imran Javed Troy Mueller Josh Villanueva Jake McGrath Ross Dettman

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COMMUNICATIONS Lindsey Willhite Jasmine Grotto Whitneigh Kinne

Director of Public Relations Media Relations Coordinator Social Media Coordinator

PARTNERSHIPS & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Jon Sata

Greg Sprott Timothy Weaver

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Rob Newburg Leslie Metcalf John Brooks David McGovern Dan Velarde Adam Goldberg

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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

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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.

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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 WHOLE NEW WORLD ROOKIE SAMUEL BLAIS CONQUERS HIS FIRST YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES

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A player’s rookie year is one of the most defining in his career and can be littered with tons of first-time memories such as his first goal, first point, first fight, first hat trick and many others.

Those milestones will be celebrated, etched into the record books and attached to a player for the rest of his career. They’ll help define his legacy as a professional hockey player.

When stories are written about first-year players, they usually focus on how they’re learning to play the game at the next level and whether they’re fitting in with their veteran teammates. What’s usually overlooked – even though they’re equally important – are the player’s trials and tribulations during what is often their first year living completely on their own.

For 20-year-old Wolves forward Samuel Blais, the 2016-17 season marks not only his first as a professional hockey player, but his first time living on his own.

As a Quebec native who had the good fortune to play all of his three-plus seasons of junior hockey in his home province, moving to the Midwestern United States definitely has been an adjustment.

On top of moving to a new country, Blais has been learning a new language.

Like most Quebec natives, Blais grew up speaking French exclusively. When he attended NHL training camp last September, it marked his first time truly delving into the English language.

“Learning new words and the conversion from one language to the other was

tough, so communicating with others was challenging,” Blais said. “When I have a conversation with someone and it’s more than 30 seconds, some times I need to stop and think about how to say what I [want] to say. That’s the toughest thing.”

While Blais has been mainly learning English on his own, his bilingual success hasn’t been without some assistance.

Blais’ mentor since he stepped foot on U.S. soil has been fellow Québécois Jordan Caron. A seven-year pro, the Wolves forward already has walked Blais’ path and has been a great help.

“I knew he had been drafted, so during camp I introduced myself,” Caron said.

“Then we played one game together during training camp, and then we both came [to Chicago] and we started hanging out more. There are only two of us that speak French here, so we started hanging out and became good friends.”

“He’s been a pro for [a while], so he’s [taught] me lot,” Blais said. “He helped me a lot at the beginning with translating drills and things like that during practices.

I really look up to him for his work ethic.

You can see that he’s a good pro off and on the ice.”

Between Caron and Blais’ roommate, fellow rookie Vince Dunn, Blais has been mastering fluency of the English language over the last nine months.

Perhaps his battle to learn another language explains why Blais takes such an eager and empathetic approach to the Wolves’ French Class Player Visits.

The program, which began in 2000 with former Wolves forward Daniel Lacroix (a Montreal native who’s now a Canadiens assistant coach), provides a Wolves player’s services to local high school French classes that want to benefit from hearing the language by a native speaker.

In essence, Blais gets to shift from being the student to being the teacher.

He has visited four Chicago-area classrooms so far. Each has been a different experience, but Blais has been pleasantly surprised by each class’ abilities.

During a recent visit to Mundelein High School, Blais spoke to the class almost exclusively in French as he told the students about himself and Quebec French culture. The visit also included a question-and-answer session and drawings for Wolves memorabilia. The visit concluded as must do: with Blais signing autographs and posing for pictures as a reward to students for testing their French-speaking skills with a fluent speaker.

“Overall, they’re pretty good with the language,” Blais said. “They’re asking great questions about the type of life I have in Quebec City and how it differs from the USA. I’m happy to answer the questions; it’s very fun.”

Classes and clubs interested in having a Wolves player fluent in French visit can sign up at ChicagoWolves.com.

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MEET THE WOLVES

#2 KEVIN TANSEY D / H: 6-4 W: 220 February 22, 1993 Hammond, Ontario

#3 JARED NIGHTINGALE D / H: 6-3 W: 205 October 3, 1982 Jackson, Michigan

#4 MORGAN ELLIS

#5 REID MCNEILL

#6 VINCE DUNN

D / H: 6-1 W: 208 April 30, 1992 Summerside, Prince Edward Island

D / H: 6-4 W: 215 April 29, 1992 London, Ontario

D / H: 6-0 W: 192 October 29, 1996 Lindsay, Ontario

#9 ANDREW AGOZZINO

#10 CONNER BLEACKLEY

#12 WADE MEGAN

LW / H: 5-9 W: 185 January 3, 1991 Kleinburg, Ontario

C / H: 6-0 W: 201 February 7, 1996 High River, Alberta

#17 SAMUEL BLAIS

#7 TY RATTIE

#8 ALEX FRIESEN

RW / H: 6-0 W: 190 February 5, 1993 Calgary, Alberta

C / H: 5-10 W: 184 January 30, 1991 St. Catharines, Ontario

#13 LANDON FERRARO

#14 PETTERI LINDBOHM

#15 MACKENZIE MACEACHERN

C / H: 6-0 W: 183 August 8, 1991 Trail, British Columbia

D / H: 6-3 W: 212 September 23, 1993 Helsinki, Finland

LW / H: 6-2 W: 209 March 9, 1994 Troy, Michigan

#20 JAMES WISNIEWSKI

#21 SCOOTER VAUGHAN

#22 IVAN BARBASHEV

#24 JORDAN SCHMALTZ

D / H: 5-11 W: 203 February 12, 1984 Canton, Michigan

D / H: 6-1 W: 202 April 8, 1989 Placentia, California

C / H: 6-0 W: 195 December 14, 1995 Moscow, Russia

D / H: 6-2 W: 200 October 8, 1993 Verona, Wisconsin

LW / H: 6-1 W: 193 June 17, 1996 Montmagny, Quebec

C / H: 6-1 W: 194 July 22, 1990 Canton, New York

#18 KENNY AGOSTINO LW / H: 6-0 W: 205 April 30, 1992 Morristown, New Jersey

#25 CHRIS BUTLER D / H: 6-1 W: 200 October 27, 1986 St. Louis, Missouri

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#26 BRYCE GERVAIS

#27 JORDAN CARON

#29 BRETT STERLING

#30 VILLE HUSSO

RW / H: 5-9 W: 174 February 26, 1992 Battleford, Saskatchewan

RW / H: 6-2 W: 206 November 2, 1990 Sayabec, Quebec

LW / H: 5-7 W: 174 April 24, 1984 Los Angeles, California

G / H: 6-2 W: 205 February 6, 1995 Helsinki, Finland

#32 TAGE THOMPSON

#35 JORDAN BINNINGTON

#36 JUSTIN SELMAN

#38 TY LONEY

C / H: 6-5 W: 200 Oct. 30, 1997 Phoenix, Arizona

G / H: 6-2 W: 179 July 11, 1993 Richmond Hill, Ontario

F / H: 6-0 W: 198 October 2, 1993 Upper Saddle River, NJ

RW / H: 6-4 W: 208 March 1, 1992 Valencia, PA

#40 BRAD MALONE C /H: 6-2 W: 207 May 20, 1989 Miramichi, New Brunswick

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CATCH WADE MEGAN’S HISTORY WITH FISHING, BOOKS, AND HOCKEY

BY LINDSEY WILLHITE | PHOTOS BY ROSS DETTMAN

In order to understand Wade Megan’s slow but steady rise to hockey’s pinnacle, you need to know that the Chicago Wolves center graduated from Boston University in 2013 with a History degree.

The 26-year-old from Canton, New York, enjoys reading about history. Studying history. Learning from history.

Sometimes this means he’s curled up with a book about Cicero — the Roman philosopher and politician who hailed from Julius Caesar’s time before Christ was born — when the Wolves travel on their road trips.

Sometimes this means he’s studying maps in an effort to find hidden lakes and ponds in the Adirondack Mountains — because he’s an avid fly fisherman who enjoys the idea of finding places that haven’t been fished in years.

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“If you’re fishing for trout, they’re pretty finicky,” Megan said. “They have good eyesight. They’re not super-easy to catch. You might be able to see 30 of them in a stream and you can’t get them to bite anything. That’s half the fun for me, anyway. Reading about locations, reading about flies, when the fish are eating — and then just trying to put it all together to catch them. To catch a fish is fun for me, so I spend a lot of time on it.”

Sometimes this means he’s canvassing the corners of his mind to remember specific hockey plays from the previous season — because this is the best way he knows to improve his game during the offseason.

During the summers, Megan rents a cabin along the St. Lawrence River near his boyhood home in what New Yorkers call the North Country. While many hockey pros congregate in Toronto or Chicago or Los Angeles and can find a big workout group anytime, Megan’s remote location means he prepares for each hockey season by working out at SUNY-Canton in August and September with his buddy, Binghamton Senators center Kyle Flanagan.

“A lot of times it’s just him and I and we’re doing stick-handling stuff on the ice and Shooter Tutor and then it’s ‘OK, what do you want to work on?’” Megan said. “And he’ll come up with something and we’ll do that drill for a while and then he goes to me, ‘What do you want to work on?’ And I’ll say, ‘This is what I want to work on.’ We just do reps continuously until you get better at it. That’s the only way to get better.

“I would go back into my head and think about passes that I got that I should have scored on — or plays that I should have completed. Then you take that from the game and put it in the practice rink and develop a drill that would help you work on that particular situation. It’s a never-ending process.”

Have those drills worked? You be the judge.

Prior to this season — his first with the Wolves — Megan scored 51 goals in 211 games split between the AHL’s San Antonio Rampage and Portland Pirates and the ECHL’s Cincinnati Cyclones.

This season, Megan scored 27 goals in his first 57 games with the Wolves – which made him the leading goal-scorer in the American Hockey League.

“I’m not surprised at all,” said Flanagan, who’s in his fourth AHL season. “He has worked so hard for this. I’m so happy for him. There’s no secret to his season: Hard work has paid off.”

Megan’s sterling play wasn’t just noticed by his buddies and the statisticians.

On Dec. 22, he was rewarded with his first chance to play in the National Hockey League and he scored a goal in his first period of action — just like he visualized it.

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“Yeah, I did,” said Megan, who scored for St. Louis at Tampa Bay. “I just remember thinking, ‘It’d be something if I could score a goal this game. It’d be pretty cool if I could find a way.’ I just had these normal in-game thoughts that I have in Chicago. Just picturing yourself scoring a goal. I just had that self-confidence somehow to find a way to try to score a goal.”

As you can tell, Megan believes a sharp mind is just as important on the ice as quick hands and a swift stride.

“I think your state of mind is pretty important for anyone — not just hockey players,” Megan said. “What dominates your thoughts is what’s going to happen more often than not. If you’re thinking negative all the time, then negative things are probably going to happen.

If you’re thinking positive all the time, then positive things are going to come your way.

“It’s not always easy, obviously.

Everyone has those days when they’re down on themselves or whatever the case may be. But for me, it’s trying to stay positive.”

It’s also been about maximizing his opportunities. During his four years at Boston University, Megan finagled his class schedule to ensure he could pursue all of his interests in History while getting more ice time than

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his teammates. At BU, the history department is part of the Metropolitan School — which was geared toward adults learning after work, so many of Megan’s classes met at night.

“I’d have all morning to do what I wanted at the rink — whether it was skating, a workout, shoot pucks, whatever I wanted,” Megan said. “Pertti Hasanen (now the skills coach for the NHL’s New Jersey Devils) was at BU and he was our skill coach. I just remember spending a ton of time with him in the mornings.

Then practice would be at 2 o’clock or whatever. Then you’d have class from 5 to 7:30 or 8. That was kind of my daily schedule in college.”

Meanwhile, the history curriculum allowed Megan to focus on the topics he found the most compelling. His favorites are Ancient Rome and its political system as well as New World history that explains how immigrants came to America and transformed our country.

His desire to read and learn didn’t end when he earned his diploma. Any time the Wolves are in an airport waiting for a flight, there’s a good chance Megan and some of his teammates are browsing in the bookstore. He has read everything Malcolm Gladwell has written. He enjoys the works of novelist Robert Harris, who focuses on historical fiction.

“I have a Notes section on my phone,” Megan said. “A lot of times you read books and they’ll quote someone from another book, so then the list is neverending. ‘Oh, I want to look at that book.’

So I put that in my phone and I have books that I’ve read and books that I want to read.”

Megan jokes that Alex Casstevens, his girlfriend and fellow BU graduate, calls him a nerd because he carries around 30 books with him whenever they move.

But she also indulges the rare occasions when Megan isn’t about plotting and scheming and checking the history books in order to make a move. Yes, there are times when he pursues one of his passions on a moment’s notice.

“I pretty much always have my fly fishing stuff in the car,” he said. “My girlfriend and I will be driving out of town or around the Adirondacks or whatever. We’ll pass a place where the stream comes close to the road and I’m like, ‘I’ve got to pull over for a second.’

“So I’ll get my fly rod out and zip a few casts in there to see if I can get anything.

I’ll fish a spot for 10-12 minutes or whatever and she hangs out. She’s pretty tolerant, but it’s funny. She’ll be up by the road and I’m zipping flies halfway across the road into traffic and into the streams. It’s pretty funny.”

Megan could catch the biggest fish in the stream — and it still wouldn’t be as big of a catch as when the Wolves convinced him in the offseason to be a part of this organization. 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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WESTWARD HO! The American Hockey League continues to expand its reach in the western half of the country as the Springfield Falcons have moved to Arizona and become the Tucson Roadrunners. In addition, the Portland Pirates moved to Massachusetts to become the Springfield Thunderbirds.

The AHL will maintain its twoconference, four-division alignment for the second year in a row, but Tucson’s arrival has led to a change in conference membership. Instead of housing 15 teams apiece, the Western Conference boasts 16 teams split between the Central and Pacific while the Eastern Conference features 14 teams split between the Atlantic and North.

In both conferences, the top four teams in each division (ranked by points percentage) will qualify for the 2017 Calder Cup Playoffs.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

CENTRAL DIVISION

ATLANTIC DIVISION

Chicago Wolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Louis Blues Charlotte Checkers. . . . . . . . . . . . Carolina Hurricanes Grand Rapids Griffins . . . . . . . . . . . Detroit Red Wings Iowa Wild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Minnesota Wild Cleveland Monsters. . . . . . . . . Columbus Blue Jackets Manitoba Moose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winnipeg Jets Milwaukee Admirals. . . . . . . . . . . . Nashville Predators Rockford IceHogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago Blackhawks

Bridgeport Sound Tigers . . . . . . . New York Islanders Hartford Wolf Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York Rangers Hershey Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington Capitals Lehigh Valley Phantoms . . . . . . . . Philadelphia Flyers Providence Bruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boston Bruins Springfield Thunderbirds . . . . . . . . . . Florida Panthers

PACIFIC DIVISION

NORTH DIVISION

Bakersfield Condors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edmonton Oilers Ontario Reign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Los Angeles Kings San Antonio Rampage. . . . . . . . . . Colorado Avalanche San Diego Gulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anaheim Ducks San Jose Barracuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Jose Sharks Stockton Heat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Calgary Flames Texas Stars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallas Stars Tucson Roadrunners . . . . . . . . . . . . Arizona Coyotes

Albany Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Jersey Devils Binghamton Senators . . . . . . . . . . . . Ottawa Senators Rochester Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buffalo Sabres St. John’s IceCaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . Montreal Canadiens Syracuse Crunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tampa Bay Lightning Toronto Marlies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toronto Maple Leafs Utica Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vancouver Canucks

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins . . . . . . . Pittsburgh Penguins

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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

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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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