Breakaway Magazine - Volume 10 - Issue 2

THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHICAGO WOLVES

VOL. 10 ISSUE 2

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OPERATIONS & CREATIVE SERVICES

Courtney Mahoney Dan Harris Camille Colletti Holly Simms Joe Muting Imran Javed Troy Mueller Josh Villanueva Ross Dettman

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COMMUNICATIONS Lindsey Willhite Jasmine Grotto Whitneigh Kinne

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training staffs, broadcasters and officials. Last year, we cheered on players like Jake Guentzel, Zach Werenski and William Nylander as they graduated from the AHL and made remarkable impressions on the NHL. Since 1936, our loyal and passionate fans have been able to watch more than 100 future Hockey Hall of Famers as well as over 100 Calder Cup champions who now have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup as well.

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WOLVES HISTORY

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WENDELL YOUNG FOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS THROUGH WENDELL YOUNG’S EYES

Wendell Young has been an essential part of the Chicago Wolves organization since the team’s inaugural season in 1994-95.

Though his role has evolved from goaltender to executive director of team relations to assistant coach to his current position as general manager, one thing has never changed: Young has enjoyed a terrific vantage point for every great moment in Wolves history.

That makes Young (whose retired No. 1 jersey hangs from the Allstate Arena rafters) the perfect person to share insights about all four Wolves teams that captured league titles: The International Hockey League’s Turner Cup champs in 1998 and 2000 and the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup champs in 2002 and 2008.

1998 Armed with a new head coach (John Anderson) and a new general manager (Kevin Cheveldayoff) – who added strong players such as Chris Marinucci, Alexander Semak, Steve Martins, Tom Tilley and Bob Nardella to the traditional core led by Steve Maltais and Young – the Wolves jumped out to a 20-6-2 start and played like the IHL’s team to beat all season.

The Wolves didn’t encounter many problems in the postseason until falling behind the Detroit Vipers 3-2 in the best-of-7 Turner Cup Finals. The Wolves returned to Allstate Arena, fed off the huge crowds and knocked off the Vipers by scores of 3-1 and 3-0 to claim the franchise’s first Cup.

WENDELL SAYS “The biggest thing that year was ‘Chevy’ coming in and Johnny coming in. We had a different mood, a different attitude. Johnny’s not a yeller as a

coach, which was refreshing and made it fun to play – especially when we had an older team. The older guys don’t need a ton of yelling.

“We knew we had a good team from the start. We had a really good group on and off the ice and we enjoyed winning.

Some teams you’re on? You’re going in there hoping to win. We went into games expecting to win. ‘Chevy’ had something to do with setting the tone. He had a reputation of winning, having won two Turner Cups before he arrived. It seemed like everything came together.

“We didn’t think there was any doubt we’d win the Cup, even when we got down 3 games to 2 to Detroit. We had the confidence. We had a little bit of a strut. And I think we win Game 7 even if there hadn’t been the big fight during warmups. It just added to the game’s drama. Actually, it might have calmed everything down because everybody had been on guard.

“Right after we won, I actually kicked everybody out of the locker room except the players and we had a few minutes by

ourselves. I said, ‘This is the last time we’re truly going to be together as a team. So look around, realize what this is and take it all in. Call the people who are important to you – whether it’s your parents or coaches or anybody else who helped you get here.’

“We had maybe five minutes of that, and then we opened the door and it was Game On! We had an amazing celebration that was the absolute epitome of our organization because we included so many people involved in our success. Our families…our off-ice staff…the police…the people who work at the rink…it was all-encompassing.

Everyone gets a picture with the cup, a drink out of the cup – whatever. It’s a way of recognizing everybody. No one’s shut out.

“I remember we ran out of beer and, the next thing I know, the doors open up and a tractor’s pulling into the locker room with a pallet full of beer -- courtesy of (Allstate Arena boss) Pat Nagle. I’ve never seen that before or since.”

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2000 The Wolves fell one game shy of the Turner Cup Final in 1999 – a painful finish that set the tone for next season.

The players performed decently during the first half of the year, but came alive when they saw the finish line. From Feb. 25 to March 30, the Wolves reeled off 19 wins in 20 games to hit the playoffs with a full head of steam.

The Wolves wound up capturing their second championship with a Game 6 triumph at Grand Rapids on June 5, 2000. Oddly, the Turner Cup Final was almost anti-climatic after the incredible Western Conference Final series against

2002 It was a brave new world for the Wolves as the American Hockey League accepted a fistful of teams as the International Hockey League dissolved.

The Orlando Solar Bears, who defeated the Wolves in the 2001 Turner Cup Final, didn’t make the jump as a franchise, but their players came to Chicago to join forces with the Wolves veterans.

Instead of thriving with all of this talent, the Wolves struggled to put the pieces together. It took a late-season burst just to sneak into the playoffs. But when it was all over, the Wolves hoisted the Calder Cup with a double-overtime

2008 The Wolves delivered one of the most dominant performances from start to finish in AHL history to claim their second Calder Cup. John Anderson’s club posted a 13-0-1-0 record during the first six weeks to set a dizzying pace.

The Wolves coasted to the West Division title by 13 points over second-place Rockford before knocking off Milwaukee, Rockford, Toronto and Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton to capture the franchise’s fourth title in 11 seasons.

Veteran center Jason Krog earned the league’s Most Valuable Player after

the Houston Aeros.

The Aeros knocked out the Wolves in the 1999 Western Conference Final and appeared poised to do it again. Houston won the first two games on Allstate Arena ice, then took a 3-0 lead in the first period of Game 3.

WENDELL SAYS “We absolutely were not even in the same rink with Houston in those first two games. Then we go into Game 3 and we were down 3-nothing after the first period and that was being polite. We could’ve been down 6 or 7 to nothing. You get to a point where you’re just beaten down and you can’t do anything right.

victory over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on June 3, 2002 at Allstate Arena.

WENDELL SAYS “I retired after the 2001 season, so I was in management at the time as the Wolves’ executive director of team relations and I was doing charity work. It was a strange year for the team.

“I remember talking with Rob Brown and with Steve Maltais – telling them that the coaches and management are really backing you up with the big team (NHL partner Atlanta Thrashers) because there’s some controversy over who should be playing.

pacing everyone in goals (39), assists (73) and points (112). Linemates Brett Sterling and Darren Haydar each averaged more than a point per game while Ondrej Pavelec was a rock in goal.

WENDELL SAYS “We knew we were good. We found out Krog and Haydar played together at the University of New Hampshire and then you put them with somebody like Sterling, who was such a good shooter and scored 55 goals the year before as a rookie.

“We had a powerful team and Pavelec in goal. He was a rookie and just 21 years old, but he could have been MVP in the

“Then we were shorthanded early in the second period. They were on the power play and had a bunch of chances. Right at the end of the power play, we were just exhausted. And Tom Tilley has the puck and he’s supposed to dump it in. But he keeps holding it, their guys kind of let him go and he throws an absolute soft shot at the goalie and it goes through his legs. It was like the light turned on and Houston never recovered. We went on to win the next four games. I’ve never seen a change in a series like that.

“When guys get together to talk about old times, 99 percent of the time we’re not talking about stuff that happened on the ice. But that is one thing that guys still talk about. “

“I said to them, ‘You know what? Why don’t you just put your head down and play and prove them all wrong?’ And I think ‘Maltsy’ had a hat trick in the first playoff game after that. I’m not saying that’s the reason the team rallied, but I think they needed to know from somebody on the outside that people had their back and believed in them.

“The Wolves’ victory was also a win for everyone who came from the International League. The ‘I’ was always thought of as a lower-echelon league than the American League. But then the core of the team that won the last season in the ‘I’ came in and won in their first season of the ‘A.’ ”

playoffs instead of Krog. He was that good. He made some phenomenal saves at key times. You never had to worry about the goaltending, “I was behind the bench coaching with Johnny and “Nellie” (Todd Nelson) that season and it was different. When you’ve got the equipment on, you can kind of control the game. When you don’t have the equipment on, you’re telling them how to control the game.

“But I enjoyed the championship 100 percent as much as the other ones.

When you win it as a player, you’re one of the kids who won it. When you’re a coach, you almost feel like a father. Your kids have won it. You’re the proud dad.

It’s nice to see the guys enjoy it.”

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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.

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 46 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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HOCKEY OPERATIONS

WENDELL YOUNG GENERAL MANAGER

Wendell Young is in his ninth season as the Chicago Wolves general manager. During his tenure, the team has compiled a .593 winning percentage during the regular season and captured four division titles: the 2010 West, 2012 Midwest, 2014 Midwest and 2017 Central.

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 54-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 10th 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 20 years, which includes all four seasons that finished 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 48-year-old spent 12 seasons as the director of hockey administration — handling team travel, immigration, and accounting for the hockey operations department — before assuming the assistant general manager role in August 2009.

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

GENE UBRIACO

SENIOR ADVISOR/DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY OPERATIONS Gene Ubriaco, who has been with the Wolves since the franchise’s inception in 1994, is in his 21st season as the team’s director of hockey operations and ninth 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 1995 Turner Cup playoffs.

The 79-year-old began his coaching career at Lake Superior State University in 1972-73.

Four years later, he led the Milwaukee Admirals to the Turner Cup playoffs to become the first International Hockey League coach to lead an expansion team into the postseason.

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

The Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native also played professional hockey for 10 years spilt between the American Hockey League and NHL. At the NHL level, He skated for the Penguins (1967-68), the Oakland Seals (1968-69) and the Chicago Blackhawks (1969-70). In the AHL, Ubriaco recorded 162 goals, 258 assists and 420 points in 456 games spanning nine seasons.

Ubriaco dedicates himself to numerous charitable causes, including the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association with which he has been involved since 1974.

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COMING TO AMERICA TOMAS HYKA RELISHES SECOND CHANCE AT NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY

BY JASMINE GROTTO Not long after this Chicago Wolves season began, Tomas Hyka visited the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Schaumburg to take his driver’s test.

“The driving wasn’t a big deal,” Hyka said.

“The writing was pretty hard for me. I didn’t understand the signs. That’s why I made mistakes the first time and couldn’t pass. Once someone helped me and explained the signs, I was able to do it.”

With any luck, Hyka’s second-chance success at the DMV will be replicated during his second opportunity to play hockey in North America.

Way back in 2012, when Hyka was playing for the Gatineau Olympiques in the Quebec Major Junior League, the Los Angeles Kings picked the 19-year-old in the sixth round of the NHL Entry Draft.

Though Hyka stacked up 54 points in 49 games for Gatineau during the season after he was drafted, the Kings opted to let their draft rights to Hyka expire. That left him with little choice but to return to Europe to launch his professional hockey career.

He spent his first pro season playing in Sweden for Farjestads BK (which, ironically, gave him an opportunity to play in the 2014 AHL All-Star Classic as Farjestads BK faced current Wolves teammate Brandon Pirri, then-Wolves goalie Jake Allen and the rest of the AHL’s best).

Then he returned to his native Czech Republic to play for his hometown team, Mlada Boleslav BK, in his country’s top professional league, Czech Extraliga.

Over the course of the last three seasons, Hyka stacked up 38 goals and 42 assists in 117 regular-season games for Mlada Boleslav.

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The 24-year-old forward from the Czech Republic didn’t get a passing grade on his first try, but he did just fine the second time and became the proud possessor of an Illinois driver’s license.

“YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND YOU NEVER KNOW IF THAT OPPORTUNITY WILL COME AGAIN.” Hyka was so impressive, he earned a roster spot on the Czech national team that competed at the 2017 World Championship in France. It marked the first time Hyka represented his country at the senior level.

head coach Rocky Thompson. “You can see the potential. When the puck’s on his stick something is going to happen.

On the heels of a seventh-place finish – eliminated by eventual bronze medalist Russia – Hyka received the most pleasant surprise of the summer: A call from his agent saying the NHL’s new expansion team, the Vegas Golden Knights, was interested in him.

Making an NHL lineup is an uphill battle, but the transitioning to the North American-style of hockey and living hasn’t been.

“It wasn’t on my radar,” Hyka said.

“There wasn’t any sign that I would go to the NHL, and I still had a one-year contract back home, so I did not expect that call. But it’s a new team, a new opportunity.

“You never know what is going to happen, and you never know if that opportunity will come again, so I decided to come back [to North America].”

One of several Vegas prospects playing for the Wolves, Hyka’s second chance has gotten off to a fast start. He scored goals in three of the Wolves’ first four games and produced seven points in the team’s first eight games.

“He’s made great strides,” said Wolves

“The objective is for us to teach him how we can get the puck on his stick more and I think he’s been a great student.”

For Hyka and his fiancé, Katerina, life away from the rink in Chicago has been enjoyable. During the team’s first days off of the season, the couple explored the city and visited “Cloud Gate” – the sculpture more commonly referred to as the Bean – and walked Michigan Avenue.

Hyka and his fiancé also have been pleased with the amount of his native culture they’ve encountered, ranging from authentic Czech restaurants to driving. Yes, driving.

The fast-paced, split second-decision making nature of Chicago traffic is similar to what Hyka is used to in Czech Republic.

“Everybody drives really fast here,” Hyka said. “And I just try to keep up as much as I can.”

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KEITH AULIE D / H: 6-6 W: 223 June 11, 1989 Rouleau, Saskatchewan

TEEMU PULKKINEN LW / H: 5-10 W: 185 January 2, 1992 Vantaa, Finland

PETTERI LINDBOHM D / H: 6-3 W: 198 September 23, 1993 Helsinki, Finland

DMITRY OSIPOV D / H: 6-4 W: 234 October 4, 1996 Moscow, Russia

GRIFFIN REINHART D / H: 6-4 W: 212 January 24, 1994 North Vancouver, B.C.

KENNEY MORRISON D / H: 6-2 W: 207 February 13, 1992 Lloydminster, Alta.

TYLER WONG RW / H: 5-9 W: 174 February 28, 1996 Cochrane, Alta.

JASON GARRISON D / H: 6-0 W: 205 November 13, 1984 White Rock, B.C.

BEAU BENNETT C / H: 6-2 W: 195 November 27, 1991 Gardena, Calif.

MACKENZIE MACEACHERN LW / H: 6-2 W: 192 March 9, 1994 Troy, Mich.

PAUL THOMPSON RW / H: 6-1 W: 204 November 30, 1988 Methuen, Mass.

T.J. TYNAN C / H: 5-8 W: 165 February 25, 1992 Orland Park, Ill.

KEEGAN KOLESAR RW / H: 6-2 W: 219 April 8, 1997 Winnipeg, Manitoba

SCOOTER VAUGHAN F / H: 6-1 W: 202 April 8, 1989 Placentia, Calif.

WADE MEGAN C / H: 6-1 W: 191 July 22, 1990 Canton, New York

STEFAN MATTEAU C / H: 6-2 W: 220 February 23, 1994 Chicago, Ill.

TOBIAS LINDBERG RW / H: 6-3 W: 215 July 22, 1995 Stockholm, Sweden

BRYCE GERVAIS C / H: 5-9 W: 175 February 26, 1992 Battleford, Sask.

BRANDON PIRRI C / H: 6-0 W: 183 April 10, 1991 Toronto, Ontario

JAKE BISCHOFF D / H: 6-1 W: 195 July 25, 1994 Grand Rapids, Minn.

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BRETT STERLING LW / H: 5-7 W: 177 April 24, 1984 Los Angeles, Calif.

C.J. MOTTE G / H: 6-0 W: 195 December 10, 1991 St. Clair, Michigan

KASIMIR KASKISUO G / H: 6-3 W: 194 October 2, 1993 Vantaa, Finland

IVAN BARBASHEV C / H: 6-0 W: 187 December 14, 1995 Moscow, Russia

OSCAR DANSK G / H: 6-2 W: 198 February 28, 1994 Stockholm, Sweden

CHRIS CASTO D / H: 6-1 W: 203 December 27, 1991 Stillwater, Minn.

JAKE WALMAN D / H: 6-1 W: 170 February 20, 1996 Toronto, Ontario

38 TOMAS HYKA RW / H: 5-11 W: 159 March 23, 1993 Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic

MAXIME LAGACE G / H: 6-2 W: 190 January 12, 1993 Longueuil, Quebec

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DUCATIONAL EXPERTS CONSIDER FINLAND, WHERE CHICAGO WOLVES DEFENSEMAN PETTERI LINDBOHM GREW UP, TO POSSESS THE BEST SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. It’s also a system unrecognizable to Americans. Finland has placed such importance on a good, well-rounded education that all schools are free – even colleges. At the same time, kids don’t start formal education until they’re 7 years old and homework is rarely a thing at any age. The goal is to develop the whole person.

When students are in first and second grade, their official school day ends around noon. Then young Finns are turned loose to play outside or inside for the next several hours. Teachers follow them to supervise, not to provide strict structure.

And when they become third-graders? Lindbohm recently explained how it works while longtime Wolves athletic trainer Kevin Kacer strapped two ice bags to his surgically repaired shoulder.

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“You can pick whatever school you want to go to,” Lindbohm said. “Sports school, dance school, music school and so on. If you do that, then you’ll have 3-4 extra hours of that thing in your school every week. At that time, I tried to get into a couple schools.”

Lindbohm applied to the dance school because his older sister, Emilia, already was there and school officials approved his application. Emilia grew up to become a professional ballerina who danced for a few ballet companies, which suggests the 6-foot-3 Lindbohm might have possessed the genes to develop into one of the world’s tallest ballet dancers.

“I could have,” Lindbohm said deadpan, trying to pretend his immodest statement wasn’t a joke. “But I’m happy I chose what I did.”

“I think you should have chose being a ballerina,” Kacer retorted.

They both laughed.

In actuality, Lindbohm applied to the sports school at the same time as the dance school – and opted to go the sports route. But just because he chose sports didn’t mean he was destined to choose hockey.

Lindbohm’s father, Heikki, left his boyhood home in Helsinki in the late 1970s to play college basketball in America. Heikki played forward for Dowling College on Long Island and earned his degree in Business Adminstration and Management before returning to Finland.

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“He really enjoyed that time,” Lindbohm said. “It was the best time of his life, he said.”

While basketball was his dad’s thing, Petteri and his older brother, Oscar, became nuts about hockey. Though they couldn’t find NHL games on TV, the Lindbohm boys got their fix by reading hockey magazines, collecting hockey cards and battling over pucks in their apartment.

“Mom and Dad didn’t like that at all, but we still played,” Petteri said. “I would always play goalie and act like I was Patrick Roy or Dominik Hasek. Then my brother, he was always (Jaromir) Jagr, (Wayne) Gretzky, (Jari) Kurri, (Teemu) Selanne.”

And, perhaps because his father made the bold move from Northern Europe to North America, Lindbohm grew up with the dream to play hockey here. In 2012, when he was 18, the St. Louis Blues picked him in the sixth round of the NHL Entry Draft.

Two years later, Lindbohm signed a professional contract and came to the Midwest. He split the last three seasons between the Wolves and the Blues – making his NHL debut when he was 21 years old -- but this season Lindbohm has been a staple on the Wolves blue line.

He also has found ways to make Chicago feel like home. Whenever Lindbohm has a night off when he doesn’t need to be resting for a game the following day, there’s a good chance he’s donning something from his fashionable wardrobe and heading to a Chicago restaurant. He loves sushi (Juno and Momotaro are two of his favorites), good steakhouses and adventurous spots like The Purple Pig

on Michigan Avenue.

“I’m a little bit of a foodie,” he said. “I love trying new restaurants, love going new places. It’s a good way to get to know you guys’ culture, too. It tells a lot about the people who live here.”

Conversely, Kacer has a story that tells a lot about the quality person Lindbohm happens to be.

Hockey players and trainers tend to spend a lot of time together during the course of a season, particularly players like Lindbohm who are willing to accept and administer physical punishment if it means winning games.

Over the course of his three-plus seasons here, Lindbohm has become friendly with Kacer’s younger son, Nolan, who occasionally spends home games hanging with dad in the Allstate Arena training room. They talk about soccer – or football, as the Eurocentric Lindbohm insists on calling it – and whatever else comes to mind.

“Nolan has really taken a liking to ‘Lindy,’ ” Kacer said. “Lindy’s really good with kids.”

On the day Nolan turned 12 last January, Kacer asked Lindbohm for a favor. Did he have a minute in the afternoon to call Nolan and wish him a happy birthday? Lindbohm wasn’t interested.

“He goes, ‘Can I come over?’ ” Kacer said. “And I said, ‘Well, of course you can. We’ve got some friends coming over for dinner. Why don’t you just come over for dinner? ‘ “It was a nice day and I was cooking out on the grill and we had some family and friends over. Nolan was downstairs with some friends playing and Lindy shows up. Nolan knew nothing about it. So I

yelled for him to come upstairs. He comes around the corner of the kitchen looking into the den and sees Lindy and his eyes just lit up. ‘Oh, Lindy! Lindy!’ and runs up and gives him a big hug.

“Lindy was funny. He said, “I’ve got something for you.’ And he reaches into his pocket and gives him a candy bar. And Nolan says, ‘Thanks! That’s nice.’ And Lindy says, ‘I’m just kidding’ and hands him a bag.”

Inside the bag? A Bayern Munich jersey (Nolan’s favorite soccer team) in his size with KACER 7 (his favorite number) on the back.

“It was really awesome,” Kacer said. “He is such a good guy and it was such a great night. Lindy came and spent the whole evening with us and sat around the table drinking wine and eating dinner and it was like he was just part of the family.

Great conversation with my family and our friends and it was a really nice night.”

“I come from a big family,” Lindbohm said. “There were always a lot of people around, a lot of kids. I always enjoy

hanging out with kids so I can act like a child, too, for a second. That’s something I want to do for the rest of my life.”

Lindbohm has made a quiet habit of helping kids whenever he can. During the offseason, former Wolves defenseman Jared Nightingale and current Wolves forward Scooter Vaughan operated the Great Lakes Hockey camps. When Nightingale confided to Lindbohm that there was a boy who wanted to attend the camp in Hoffman Estates, but the boy’s mom didn’t have spare funds after supporting her family, Lindbohm gave Nightingale the money to cover the boy’s week-long fee.

“It’s super-hard to ask for help, so I really respect when somebody does that and I try my best to help,” Lindbohm said. “When you give, you’re going to get something back.

When you do good things, good things happen to you, too.

I try to be nice to everybody. When you give a smile to somebody, they might smile back.”

Yep. Clearly those schools in Finland do provide a great overall education. 

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Before Petteri Lindbohm came to America at the age of 20 to seek his hockey fortune, one of his teammates in Finland gave him some savvy fashion advice.

“Usually I wear whatever makes me feel confident,” Lindbohm said. “ ‘You look good, you feel good, you play good.’ That’s something that a smart man told me a long time ago.”

While all hockey players follow a dress code on game day – some wear the jacket and tie because it’s required and others like to show a bit of their personality with their sartorial selections.

For a recent Chicago Wolves home game, Lindbohm arrived at Allstate Arena in a smart-looking suit in muted fall colors – which allowed his pink shirt and red socks to pop that much more.

“On game days, I have a couple small things I like to do,” he said.

“I love happy socks. In October, I’d try to wear a pink tie or a pink shirt to support breast cancer awareness.”

When Lindbohm prepares for a night in Chicago – one which usually starts with a visit to a sushi restaurant or a steakhouse – he tries to strike a different chord.

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“If it’s a fancy evening, then it’s black socks and I try to keep it simple,” he said. “I think it tells a lot about you how you dress up. I like to keep it classic. The message I am trying to tell is, “I’m confident. I’m a nice guy who likes having fun.’ ”

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Rocky Thompson was named Chicago Wolves head coach on June 7, 2017. The 2017-18 campaign will mark Thompson’s 11th season as a coach, which includes two seasons as the head coach for the Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires. His tenure with the Spitfires culminated with a Memorial Cup on May 28, 2017.

The 40-year-old spent five years as a coach in the Edmonton organization prior to joining Windsor. Under the same ownership as the Oilers, Thompson began his career during the 2007-08 season as an assistant coach for the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League.

After three seasons (2007-10) with the Oil Kings, Thompson joined the American Hockey League’s Oklahoma City Barons for four seasons (2010-14). Prior to the 201415 season he was elevated to an assistant for the NHL parent club.

Before coaching, Thompson played professional hockey – split between the NHL and AHL – for parts of 11 seasons from 1995 to 2007. Selected in the third round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Calgary Flames, the 6-foot-2, 200-pound right wing appeared in 25 games between the Flames and the Florida Panthers and racked up 117 penalty minutes.

In AHL competition, Thompson appeared in 566 regular-season games and compiled 69 points (17G, 52A). His 1,919 penalty minutes rank 10th on the AHL’s all-time penalty-minute list. The Calgary, Alberta, native skated for seven different clubs during his career.

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Chris Dennis was named an assistant coach for the Chicago Wolves on June 30, 2017, and is expected to operate the defense corps for head coach Rocky Thompson.

The 37-year-old spent the last two seasons as the head coach for York University in Toronto, where he took over a last-place program and transformed it into the champions of the 20-team Ontario University Athletics conference. The Lions captured the 2017 Queen’s Cup with a dramatic 4-3 victory on March 11.

Prior to taking the job at York, Dennis spent 10 years in the Maple Leafs organization in a variety of roles spanning the head-coaching tenures of Hall of Famer Pat Quinn, Paul Maurice, Ron Wilson and Randy Carlyle. Dennis served as a Maple Leafs assistant coach from 2013-15 and worked as an assistant for the American Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies when they reached the Calder Cup Finals in 2012.

BOB NARDELLA ASSISTANT COACH

One of the most accomplished players in Chicago Wolves history, Bob Nardella was promoted to assistant coach on July 12, 2017, after serving for two seasons as skills development coach and three seasons as a part-time assistant for the franchise.

Nardella ranks second on the team’s all-time regular-season list for games (476), fifth in assists (239) and sixth in points (298) after spending six full and three partial seasons with the Wolves. He was a key player when Chicago captured the 1998 and 2000 Turner Cups as well as the 2002 Calder Cup. The 49-year-old Melrose Park native made his Wolves debut during the team’s inaugural season in 1994-95. Nardella ranks second on the Wolves’ all-time postseason list in games (101), fourth in points (61), fourth in assists (44), and seventh in goals (17).

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The Wolves are the only team to find a new National Hockey League partner as the franchise has joined forces with the Vegas Golden Knights. Three franchises in the Eastern Conference found new homes: the Binghamton Senators moved to Ontario to become the Belleville Senators, the Albany Devils transformed into the Binghamton Devils and the St. John’s IceCaps headed to Quebec to become the Laval Rocket.

The AHL has maintained its two-conference, four-division alignment for the third year in a row with just one change. The Charlotte Checkers have shifted from the Central Division to the Atlantic Division to rebalance the conferences at 15 teams apiece.

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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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 6. BOB NARDELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 7. STEVE LAROUCHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 8. CHRIS MARINUCCI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 9. STEVE MARTINS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 10. DEREK MACKENZIE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

ALL-TIME WINS LEADERS (Goaltenders) 1. WENDELL YOUNG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169 2. MATT CLIMIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 3. KARI LEHTONEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4. JORDAN BINNINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5. MICHAEL GARNETT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 6. RAY LEBLANC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 7. ONDREJ PAVELEC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 8. NORM MARACLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 9. PETER MANNINO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 10. JAKE ALLEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

ALL-TIME GAMES LEADERS 1. STEVE MALTAIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839 2. BOB NARDELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 3. DEREK MACKENZIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 4. KEVIN DOELL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 5. ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 BRIAN SIPOTZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 7. BRETT STERLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 8. TIM BERGLAND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 9. DARREN HAYDAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 10. TIM BRESLIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

LES CUNNINGHAM AWARD (AHL Regular-Season MVP) DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) KENNY AGOSTINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2016-17)

WILLIE MARSHALL AWARD (AHL’S Leading Goal-Scorer) BRETT STERLING . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) WADE MEGAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2016-17)

YANICK DUPRE MEMORIAL AWARD (AHL Man of the Year) KURTIS FOSTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . (2003-04)

2016-17 CHICAGO WOLVES

ALL-TIME FRANCHISE RECORDS & AWARDS

Kenny Agostino became the third Wolves player to earn the Les Cunningham Award as the AHL’s Most Valuable Player.

The league’s players, coaches and media voted on the award.

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

When Wade Megan led the AHL in goals and Kenny Agostino paced the league in points last season, they became the first pair of teammates in seven seasons to top the AHL in those key categories.

GOALS-AGAINST AVERAGE LEADERS (MINIMUM 25 APPEARANCES)

1. RICHARD SHULMISTRA. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.89 2. J AKE ALLEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.03 3. K ARI LEHTONEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 4. ANDREI TREFILOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36 5. E DDIE LACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.46 6. JORDAN BINNINGTON. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.59 7. D REW MacINTYRE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66 8. ROBERT GHERSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 9. F RED BRATHWAITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68 10. ONDREJ PAVELEC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.69

The Wolves captured the Central Division crown last season, which gives the team four division titles in the last eight years and eight division titles overall.

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

The Wolves set a franchise record with a 13-game undefeated streak from Feb. 12 to March 18. During that five-week stretch, the Wolves posted nine wins and took the other four games to overtime.

(AHL’S Leading Regular-Season Scorer) STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2002-03) DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) KENNY AGOSTINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2016-17)

IHL MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD (Outstanding Community Service) TIM BRESLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97) CHRIS MARINUCCI . . . . . . . . . . . . (1998-99) WENDELL YOUNG . . . . . . . . . . . . (2000-01)

The Wolves piled up 101 points on their way to the Central Division title. It marked the ninth time in the franchise’s 23-year history that it reached the 100-point mark.

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ACROSS 2. Largest species of the deer family 3. A legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle 5. Upper portion of the goal net (2 Words) 7. Wolves’ NHL affiliate plays in this city (2 Words) 8. A type of motorcycle with step-through frame and a platform for the rider's feet 10. Another term for the goal post 11. British money; a type of silver

DOWN 1. Wolves head coach shares his name with this famous fictional boxer 2. Sesame Street is home to several of these and one only eats cookies 4. Opposite of backward 6. Wile E. Coyote is always chasing this 9. New Wolves opponent from Ontario

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