Breakaway Magazine - Volume 12 - Issue 4

THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHICAGO WOLVES

VOL. 12 ISSUE 4

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Dear Fans, It is my pleasure once again to welcome you all to a new season of American Hockey League action, as we continue a tradition of excellence that dates back to our founding as a league in 1936.

DAVID ANDREWS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

The AHL remains proud of its role in developing nearly all of the players, coaches, executives, trainers, broadcasters and officials who you see throughout the National Hockey League today. For more than eight decades, generations of our great fans have been able to cheer on future superstars and Stanley Cup champions, and more than 100 eventual members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

The 2019-20 season is sure to be another memorable one as we drop the puck in 31 cities across North America, all vying to become the next Calder Cup champion.

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TOP 10 MOMENTS OF OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON As the 2018-19 season approached, the Chicago Wolves felt the magic in the air.

Head coach Rocky Thompson and his assistants were back after leading the team to the 2018 Central Division crown. Most of the top scorers from that team were back in the fold – a group that featured T.J. Tynan, Brandon Pirri and Tomas Hyka. Premier goaltenders (and best friends) Oscar Dansk and Max Lagace were back, too.

Our Hockey Operations department, led by general manager Wendell Young, added high-profile veterans such as Daniel Carr and Curtis McKenzie to the mix. Our NHL partner, the Vegas Golden Knights, filled the pipeline with talented prospects.

But those weren’t the only reasons to be excited. To celebrate the franchise’s 25th anniversary, dozens of former players and coaches and others crucial to the Wolves’ long-time success returned to town to relive memories – and remind everyone of the standards that have been in place since Day 1.

And when everything was said and done, the Wolves found themselves in the league finals for the seventh time in franchise history.

Aug. 13: Party on the Magnificent Mile To kick off the 25th anniversary celebration and introduce the team’s #LastTeamStanding motto, the Wolves held a day-long celebration on Pioneer Court between Tribune Tower and the Michigan Avenue bridge in downtown Chicago.

More than 20 of the Wolves’ greatest players and former general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff – the architect of all four of the franchise’s league championship teams -- flew in from all over North America to join thousands of fans and intrigued passersby for the fun. After a special dinner at the Chicago Sports Museum at Water Tower Place, everyone returned after dark to witness a sneak preview of the team’s new pregame show conceived by world-renowned special effects company Strictly FX.

We could have filled this entire magazine with highlights from this magical season, but here is the top 10 moments from our team’s journey back to the finals.

Oct. 13: Opening Night excellence Exactly two months after the kickoff party in Chicago, the Wolves hosted their home opener at Allstate Arena. All-time leading scorer Steve Maltais (and his son) handled the ceremonial pregame puck drop and then the Wolves handled the Grand Rapids Griffins by a 5-1 score.

Right wing Brooks Macek, playing his first year in North America after spending five years in Germany that included winning a 2018 Olympics silver medal, produced his first three goals for the Wolves. He went on to produce 14 goals in an 11-game stretch – something Maltais used to do – and finished second on the team for the year with 26 goals.

Nov. 7: Four scores for Daniel Carr The Wolves trekked to Milwaukee for a 10:30 a.m. puck drop and left wing Daniel Carr did more before lunch than some pros did all year. Carr fired home four goals against former Union College teammate Troy Grosenick – becoming the fifth Wolves player to score four in one game – as Chicago earned a 5-3 victory.

Brooks Macek assisted on each of Carr’s goals and one other to finish with five assists – one shy of the team record set by Rob Brown in 1996.

Dec. 29: Coghlan sinks the IceHogs in overtime The Wolves captured the Illinois Lottery Cup, which goes to the winner of the 12-game regular-season series between Chicago and Rockford, for the third year in a row.

Four of these clashes required overtime, but the most exciting finish happened before a large Saturday night crowd at Allstate Arena when rookie defenseman Dylan Coghlan delivered the game-winner at 3:55 of the extra session. He slipped a backhand through the legs of IceHogs goalie Kevin Lankinen, who collapsed to the ice in dismay.

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April 6: Wolves clinch third straight Central Division title For the second year in a row under Rocky Thompson’s direction, the Wolves caught fire during the second half of the season. From Feb. 17 to March 29, Chicago posted a 14-2-0-2 record to climb past Grand Rapids and Iowa and seize control of the Central Division.

The Wolves wrapped up the division crown in front of the home fans on April 6. With time running out and Chicago stuck in a 2-2 knot with the Colorado Eagles, forward Ryan Wagner battled to win the puck in the corner and fed it to center Gage Quinney for the game-winning wraparound with 1:13 left in regulation.

May 1: Glass delivers in overtime After the Wolves rallied from a 2-1 series deficit to defeat Grand Rapids 3-2 in the best-of-five Central Division Semifinals, the Wolves advanced to face the Iowa Wild in the best-of-seven Central Division Finals.

The Wild held a 2-1 lead entering the third period of Game 1 at Allstate Arena, but rookie defenseman Nic Hague scored to force overtime.

Then rookie center Cody Glass skated to the slot, accepted a pass from Tye McGinn and fired it home at 18:39 of overtime to draw first blood for the Wolves in the series.

May 24: Double overtime delirium San Diego rallied to take Games 2 and 3 of the best-of-seven Western Conference Finals, then Game 4 required overtime on the Gulls’ home ice.

Goaltender Oscar Dansk fended off 17 shots in the first overtime, then AHL MVP Daniel Carr came through 6:01 into the second overtime. Center T.J. Tynan fed Carr the puck at the blue line, then the crafty forward moved into the slot and ripped a wrister past goaltender Kevin Boyle to even the series.

Wolves color analyst Billy Gardner crowed, “MVP! Clutch time, baby!” as the entire team celebrated on the Pechanga Arena ice.

May 25: Max makes history Entering Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, the American Hockey League had conducted almost 83 full years of playoffs without ever having a goaltender score a goal. The Chicago Wolves had played for 25 years – a total of 2,223 games between regular season and postseason – and never had a goaltender score a goal.

Then came the third period with the Wolves holding a precarious 3-2 lead. The officials whistled a delayed penalty on Wolves center T.J. Tynan, so Gulls goaltender Kevin Boyle left the ice for an extra attacker. Gulls rookie Isac Lundestrom fired a shot that hit Wolves goaltender Max Lagace on the blocker. Eventually, the puck wound up in front of the Wolves bench and Gulls rookie Lundestrom tried to steer it back to his defensemen, but his pass split his teammates and slid into the empty goal.

May 17: Glass delivers in overtime…again After the Wolves dispatched Iowa in six games, they earned home-ice advantage in the Western Conference Finals against Pacific Division champ San Diego.

Once again, the Wolves trailed by 1 in the third period of Game 1. Once again, rookie defenseman Nic Hague scored late to force overtime. Then, once again, rookie center Cody Glass came through. After getting his stick slashed out of his hands, Glass raced to the Wolves bench, grabbed a new stick from equipment manager Ryan Shoufer and snuck behind San Diego’s defensemen.

Forward Tomas Hyka threaded a pass between the defensemen to Glass, who raced in alone against San Diego goaltender Jeff Glass and scored at 14:03 of OT. “Glass breaks Glass!” yelled Wolves play-byplay broadcaster Jason Shaver. “And the Wolves take Game 1!”

June 1: More Calder Cup overtime magic Before the 2019 Calder Cup Finals began, prognosticators pegged the Wolves as significant underdogs to the regular-season champion Charlotte Checkers. Indeed, the Checkers flexed their muscles and scored 3 goals in the first period of Game 1 on their home ice.

But, true to their nature all year, the Wolves didn’t give up.

Defensemen Zac Leslie and Zach Whitecloud scored in the second period to forge a 3-3 tie. Goaltender Oscar Dansk contributed several great saves to get the Wolves into their fourth overtime of the postseason.

Once there, the Wolves maintained their perfect record in overtime as Stefan Matteau scored at 5:30 – his second goal of the night – to give Rocky Thompson’s crew the series lead.

As the last Wolves player to touch the puck, Lagace earned credit for the goal as the Wolves went on to a 5-2 victory and a 3-2 series edge.

Then the Wolves claimed Game 6 at Allstate Arena to go back to the Calder Cup Finals.

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DON LEVIN CH A IR M A N OF T HE B O A R D / GO V E R NOR 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 since the franchise’s inception. Levin donates his time and energy extensively 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 20 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.

BUDDY MEYERS V ICE CH A IR M A N Buddy Meyers, a principal owner of the Wolves who founded the franchise with Don Levin and Grant Mulvey in January 1994, has been involved in the world of hockey for more than 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.

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WENDELL YOUNG GE NE R A L M A N A GE R Wendell Young is in his 11th season as the Chicago Wolves general manager. Since being hired as GM in August 2009, the Wolves have compiled a .601 regular-season winning percentage and captured six division titles: the 2010 West, 2012 Midwest, 2014 Midwest, 2017 Central, 2018 Central and 2019 Central. The Wolves also reached the 2019 Calder Cup Finals.

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.

The 55-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.

BILL BENTLEY A S SIS TA N T GE NE R A L M A N A GE R Bill Bentley is in his 11th season as the Chicago Wolves assistant general manager and stands as one of a handful of people who has been a part of 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 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 the Director of Media Relations for the Chicago Cheetahs of the now-defunct Roller Hockey International during the 1993-94 season.

GENE UBRIACO SE NIOR A D V IS OR / DIR E C T OR OF HOCK E Y OP E R AT IONS Gene Ubriaco, who has been with the Wolves since the franchise’s inception in 1994, is in his 23rd season as the team’s director of hockey operations and 11th as senior advisor.

Ubriaco was hired in 1994 as the Wolves’ first head coach and guided the expansion team to a 34-33-14 record and a berth in the 1995 Turner Cup playoffs.

“Ubie” 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. Ubriaco gained international coaching experience by heading up the Italian Olympic Team during the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.

The Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native also played professional hockey for 10 years, which included three seasons in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Oakland Seals and Chicago Blackhawks. He posted 39 goals and 35 assists in 177 NHL games.

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Dylan Coghlan, Version 2.0 CHICAGO WOLVES DEFENSEMAN DYLAN COGHLAN and his older brother, Ryan, grew up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, with a vacant lot next to their home. Hockey families know just what to do with a vacant lot.

“One of the things that I worked on a lot when I was younger was my shot,” Dylan said. “I was grateful for my dad setting up a nice shooting target for me and my brother. I kind of credit my success to that.”

In 2009, when Dylan was 11 years old, his dad, Bill, turned the gravel- and grass-strewn area into Slapshot Central.

He set out an old goal he received from the local hockey rink. To keep wayward shots on the lot, he strung up a 20-foot by 20-foot commercial fishing net as a backstop.

As a rookie last season, Coghlan and Zach Redmond tied for the AHL lead among all defensemen with 10 powerplay goals – when one of the Wolves’ favorite power-play strategies was to set up Coghlan for vicious one-timers from the right point. He led all Wolves defensemen with 15 goals and 40 points during the regular season.

Lastly, he placed two 4-by-8 sheets of industrial plastic on the ground to serve as the boys’ launching pads. It didn’t take long before the lot became the most popular spot on the block.

“Hours were spent out there shooting and tipping pucks,” Bill said. “It was very cool. They had lots of friends over.

We put a couch out there to sit on. The music was always cranked up.

“They demolished a fridge shooting at it. The only problem was that the fridge still worked – and it was my beer fridge from the garage!”

Bill Coghlan doesn’t carry any lingering resentment over his late, lamented beer fridge. Not just because 11 years have passed, but because that vacant lot helped develop one of the most blistering slapshots in the American Hockey League.

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This year, Coghlan owned five powerplay goals through Feb. 23. It’s not that his slapshot is any less dangerous. He just hasn’t had as many opportunities – and he has been focusing on making his defensive game as strong as his offensive game.

As The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler wrote in February when he sized up the Vegas Golden Knights’ top prospects: “Coghlan’s offensive game is already there – it’s the reason he earned an NHL deal. He’s a threat to score, he’s mobile…at 6-foot-2, he’s physical when he needs to be, he can move the puck up ice in transition to lead forwards into the attack and he shoots right. The defensive game will determine the kind of player he can be.”

With that in mind, Coghlan believes the defensive zone is where he has made

his biggest strides during his second year as a pro. “(Head coach) Rocky (Thompson) has always talked to me and taught me how to play in the d-zone,” Dylan said. “My gap control has been a lot better this year. I’ve tried to focus on my defensive game more and it’s definitely important to learn both ends of the ice – and I’m doing that right now.”

While working on refining his game, Coghlan has enjoyed reuniting in recent weeks with fellow defenseman Nic Hague – his roommate last year. Hague spent the first half of this season in Vegas before rejoining the Wolves at the All-Star Break.

“We literally spent every waking hour together last year – either living together or at the rink,” Hague said.

“We became really good buddies.”

“This is no shot at my roommates now, but I don’t think I’ll have a friendship with anyone else on this team like I do with Nic,” Dylan said. “It’s kind of unique. I don’t even know how to describe it. We’re both kind of the same person. I miss him and I’m happy for him that he’s doing so well, but I miss living with him. It was awesome.

“We’re still best buddies. I’m superhappy for him that he’s getting this opportunity. He always tells me, ‘You’re next.’ Hopefully we’re together again next year, but if not I’ll be patient.”

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D H: 6-1 W: 196 Nov. 28, 1996 Brandon, Manitoba

G H: 6-3 W: 195 Feb. 28, 1994 Stockholm, Sweden

RW H: 6-0 W: 176 March 31, 1999 Horsholm, Denmark

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WO LVES C ENTER PATR I C K B R OWN LIVES EAC H GAM E TO TH E FU LLEST

HUMBLE EXCELLENCE B EFO R E H E STARTED KI N D ER GARTEN , Chicago Wolves center Patrick Brown knew how Cheerios tasted while using the Stanley Cup as his cereal bowl.

Before he finished high school, Brown knew how it felt to run on a confetti-littered field with dozens of cousins to celebrate your family’s franchise having won the Super Bowl – against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, no less.

Yet, for someone privileged to experience such magical moments at such a young age, Brown grew up with no sense of entitlement. In fact, the 27-year-old Wolves alternate captain uses his childhood influences to aspire to excellence every day.

Considering he has won championships and been a leader throughout his hockey career – winning two high school

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titles at Cranbrook Kingswood School in Michigan, one NCAA title at Boston College and the 2019 Calder Cup while captaining the Charlotte Checkers – Brown has been doing things right for a long time.

“I’d always say I wanted to be a professional hockey player,” Patrick said. “I feel blessed that this has worked out for me. I try to put the team before myself so we have the best chance of winning. At the end of the day, we’re in the business of winning hockey games. That’s the most fun thing for me.

“We have the privilege of being among a very select few human beings who get to do what they love every single day. You don’t trade that in for the world. Just being able to come in and try to win hockey games every single day with your teammates? That’s a dream come true.”

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT How does a young man’s life turn out like this? The answers can be found in the July 2, 1988, edition of the New York Times.

But when we turn to Page 10 of the front section, we find the news we can use: MAUREEN MARA WEDS DOUGLAS ALLEN BROWN.

Hmmm. The frontpage headlines such as SWEEPING POLITICAL REVISION OF SOVIET SYSTEM APPROVED IN STORMY MEETING OF PARTY and PRETORIA PRESENTS PLAN TO BUTTRESS SEGREGATION LAW don’t offer much help.

“Maureen Elizabeth Mara, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wellington T. Mara of Rye, N.Y., and Douglas Allen Brown, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis E. Brown of Southborough, Mass., were married yesterday at the Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection in Rye.

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The Rev. John McCarthy performed the ceremony.

The bride, a production assistant at CBS Sports in New York, graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn., and Boston College. Her father is the president and owner of the New York Giants, founded by her grandfather the late Timothy J. Mara.

The bridegroom, a graduate of St. Mark's

School in Southborough and Boston College, plays right wing with the New Jersey Devils hockey team. His father teaches mathematics and coaches football, hockey and lacrosse at St. Mark's.”

There’s a lot of professional sports prowess to unpack here, so let’s start with the Brown side of the family.

Doug and Maureen met during his junior year at

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Boston College, where she competed for the women’s golf team and served as a photographer for the school newspaper while he played hockey and lacrosse.

“I saw that beautiful redhead walking around BC and saw her sit down with a friend of mine,” Doug said. “So I went over and made that mutual friend of ours introduce us. To this day, she says she met me under false pretenses because I was introduced as a lacrosse player.”

While technically true, hockey was his future. Though Doug, a skilled 5-foot-10, 185-pound forward, was never drafted by an NHL team, he needed only one year of AHL seasoning to become a full-time NHL contributor. As Doug and Maureen started their family, he spent six years with New Jersey and one with the Pittsburgh Penguins before joining the Detroit Red Wings prior to the 1994-95 season. That was right at the point when Scotty Bowman was transforming the Red Wings into a dynasty.

When Patrick was five years old, the Red Wings won the 1997 Stanley Cup – the franchise’s first since 1955. Detroit finished its Stanley Cup Final sweep of the Philadelphia Flyers at Joe Louis Arena, which meant Patrick and his older sister, Anna, got to go on the ice to celebrate with Dad.

“It was a wonderful, wonderful, special moment,” Doug said. “We have great pictures of Patrick sitting in the locker and champagne being spilled all over him – and that doesn’t make little kids happy.

Those were great times.”

Patrick retains a vague memory of that, but owns better memories of hanging around the Red Wings’ locker room during morning skates. As Detroit had a veteran team, there were several kids his age doing the same thing.

“That was awesome,” he said. “Me and Jake Chelios and a couple other guys would rip around the locker room, chew all the bubble gum, drink all the Snapples.

They’d let us skate after their practices sometimes. Any time you get to skate with your dad, it’s a blast.”

As Doug wrapped up his 15-year NHL career and transitioned into a life as a self-employed financial consultant, he and Maureen made sure to devote time to coaching Anna, Patrick, Kaitlin, Christopher and Lily in hockey, lacrosse, golf or whatever else interested them.

For Patrick, working out with a dad who played 854 NHL games and won two Cups sometimes was frustrating – but mostly it was great.

“He was always a skilled player,” Patrick said. “I was always frustrated with myself. I felt like I wasn’t as skilled as he was. When he’d coach me as a kid, he’d say, “Maybe do this.’ It was always having a second coach and a dad at the same time. So there’s that frustration, but there’s always that appreciation that he’s teaching you and cares about you.

We’ve all had that coach who tries to help in every single way, but at some point you’ve got to figure it out for yourself.

“There would be a whole bunch of things that he would say to me that I wouldn’t grasp. Then another coach would say the exact same thing and (snaps fingers) I would be, like, ‘Oh, now I get. That makes sense.’ ” When asked to provide three words to describe his dad, Patrick didn’t hesitate.

“Hard-working. Kind. Humble,” he said.

“I can’t say enough good things about him. He has laid the groundwork for who I want to be as a person and as a player.”

And to think, this story has yet to take into account the influence of the Mara side of the family, which has been one of the pillars of American professional sports for nearly 100 years.

THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS Maureen Brown’s grandfather, Timothy J. Mara, founded the NFL’s New York Giants in 1925. Her father, Wellington, served as the team’s co-owner and president from 1965 until his passing in 2005.

“I think Maureen’s father was a class act 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” Doug said.

“He quietly led and raised 11 children and did a wonderful job. His wife was the matriarch handling so many kids and then grandkids and then great-grandkids.

Wellington and Ann would go to church seven days a week and Wellington would go to work six days a week. There was no ifs, ands or buts about how you lived your life. “ Wellington and Ann Mara, devout Catholics who met at a 7:30 a.m. mass, were blessed with 11 children. When Ann passed away in 2012, she was survived by those 11 children…and 43 grandchildren…and 16 great-grandchildren – and they all did their best to get together multiple times per year. And not just when the New York Giants were battling their way to Super Bowl titles in 1987, 1991, 2008 and 2012.

“My parents instilled in us family, faith and football – maybe not always in that order,” Maureen said with a laugh. “But those were our family’s founding principles. It was always an emphasis to be together to celebrate Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, our mother’s birthday, our father’s birthday, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter.”

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On Christmas Eve last year, 92 family members – including Patrick Wellington Brown and his wife, Julia -- gathered in Rye, New York, to celebrate together as they’ve done for decades (incidentally, the long list of Patrick’s cousins includes Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara and “House of Cards” star Kate Mara).

“When my grandparents were alive, it was mandatory,” Patrick said. “We’d go to their house for Christmas. The kids would go into the basement and rip tennis balls at each other and create a mess down there. The adults would be upstairs. They’d have Santa come and he would give all the little kids a present and it would be the best thing ever.

“We do it at one of my uncle’s houses now and it’s awesome to see everyone.

With so many relatives, you might not see everyone during the course of a year, but it’s awesome to know you’re going to see them at Christmas.”

With so many positive influences on him, it’s easy to understand why Patrick has turned out to be such a positive leader on every team for which he plays. Wolves head coach Rocky Thompson pointed it out to the Chicago Sun-Times one week into this season. “(He’s) a good leadership example of the harder the work, the more you’ll reap,” Thompson said.

All season, Wolves fans have witnessed how Patrick is always the first to race to the aid of a teammate on the ice. He’s the most eager defender, the biggest constant on the penalty-kill unit, the team’s leader in shorthanded goals. In essence, the adult is not much different from the Cheerios-eating child.

“He’s very determined,” Maureen said.

“Patrick was the child that got up at 6 a.m. and wouldn’t stop going until he dropped at 9 p.m. He was always playing sports or fishing or looking for bugs. He broke a million bones. We were in the emergency room so many times with him before he was 10. My parents would say, ‘Can’t you calm him down?’

“He was always living every day to the fullest.” 

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Rocky Thompson HE A D CO A CH Rocky Thompson has directed the Chicago Wolves to the 2018 and 2019 Central Division titles as well as the 2019 Calder Cup Finals during his two seasons as head coach.

The 2018-19 campaign marked Thompson’s 12th season as a coach, which included 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, and he was hired as the Wolves head coach on June 7.

The 42-year-old spent eight years as a coach in the Edmonton organization prior to joining Windsor, which was capped by a stint as an Edmonton Oilers assistant in 2014-15 alongside former Wolves Dallas Eakins and Todd Nelson.

Prior to 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 made his NHL debut on Jan. 28, 1998, and went on to appear 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.

Chris Dennis A S SIS TA N T CO A CH In two seasons as a Chicago Wolves assistant coach, Chris Dennis has helped to guide the Wolves to the 2018 and 2019 Central Division titles along with a run to the 2019 Calder Cup Finals.

The 39-year-old spent the previous 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 A S SIS TA N T CO A CH 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. During his two seasons as a fulltime assistant, Nardella has helped to lead the Wolves to the 2018 and 2019 Central Division crowns along with the 2019 Calder Cup Finals.

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 51-year-old Melrose Park native made his Wolves debut during the team’s inaugural season in 1994-95. After spending one season in Italy and another in Germany – punctuated by his first of two appearances in the Winter Olympics with Italy’s national team – Nardella returned to the Wolves from 1997 to 2002.

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Q: THE WHISTLE BLEW, BUT THERE WASN’T A GOAL OR A PENALTY. WHY WAS PLAY STOPPED? Some infractions do not deserve a penalty but still require a stoppage in play to right the situation. A few examples: • High Sticking: Not to be confused with hitting another player with a high stick; high-sticking is called when a player touches the puck when his stick is above his shoulder. If he or his team gains immediate possession, the official blows the whistle and calls for a faceoff one zone behind where the infraction occurred.

• Hand Pass: If a player uses his hand to advance the puck to a teammate in either the neutral or offensive zone, the whistle is blown and the faceoff moves to the nearest faceoff dot. A player can only use his hand to advance the puck in his defensive zone – and only if he doesn’t close his hand over the puck.

• Dislodged Net: Hockey is a contact sport. Sometimes that includes accidental contact with the net itself. If the net is dislodged during play and no longer lines up with the goal line, the whistle is blown to secure the net back on its moorings.

Out of Play: If the puck hits the protective netting above the goal and end boards, play is stopped even if the puck doesn’t leave the area of play. If no one is at fault, no delay of game is called and the faceoff comes nearest to where the puck was last in play.

Q: THE OFFICIALS JUST SENT TWO PLAYERS TO THE PENALTY BOX FOR A FIGHT. WHY ARE THERE STILL FIVE SKATERS OUT THERE FOR EACH TEAM? A: When two players fight, each player is sent to the penalty box to serve their five-minute major. The teams continue to play 5-on-5, unless one (or both) of the players also receives a minor penalty before, during or after the fight.

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Q: WHY DOES THE GOALTENDER SOMETIMES LEAVE THE ICE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME WHILE THE PUCK IS STILL LIVE? A: Teams typically play with three forwards, two defensemen and a goaltender, but that changes when there’s a delayed penalty called against the opposing team. In a delayed penalty situation, play is blown dead as soon as the offending team touches the puck. That makes it nearly impossible for them to score. That encourages the other team to pull its goaltender and add an extra attacker on the ice to create a 6-on-5 advantage.

If the team with the 6-on-5 advantage scores a goal, then the delayed penalty call is waived and the game resumes 5-on-5 with a faceoff at center ice.

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ALL-TIME POINTS LEADERS

GOALS LEADERS

1. STEVE MALTAIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951 2. ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 3. DARREN HAYDAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 4. BRETT STERLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 5. JASON KROG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 6. BOB NARDELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 7. STEVE LAROUCHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 8. CHRIS MARINUCCI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 9. STEVE MARTINS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 10. DEREK MACKENZIE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

1. STEVE MALTAIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 2. BRETT STERLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 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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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

1. RICHARD SHULMISTRA. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.89 2. J AKE ALLEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.03 3. K ARI LEHTONEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 4. ANDREI TREFILOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36 5. K ASIMIR KASKISUO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.38 6. EDDIE LACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.46 7. J ORDAN BINNINGTON. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.62 8. DREW MacINTYRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66 9. R OBERT GHERSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 10. FRED BRATHWAITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68

DANIEL CARR EARNED THE AHL’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AWARD LAST SEASON, WHICH MADE HIM THE FOURTH WOLVES PLAYER IN THE LAST 13 YEARS TO EARN THE HONOR. NO OTHER AHL TEAM HAS WON AS MANY IN THAT TIME SPAN.

LEO LAMOUREUX MEMORIAL TROPHY

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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)

(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) KENNY AGOSTINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2016-17)

IHL MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD

THE NUMBER OF FORMER AND CURRENT WOLVES WHO HAVE PLAYED IN THE NHL ENTERING THE 2019-20 SEASON. THAT’S 57.4 PERCENT OF ALL WOLVES PLAYERS THROUGH OUR FIRST 25 YEARS.

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THAT’S HOW MANY WOLVES ALUMNI PLAYED IN THE NHL LAST SEASON SPREAD ACROSS 17 TEAMS.

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THE WOLVES WON THEIR THIRD CONSECUTIVE CENTRAL DIVISION TITLE LAST YEAR. NOW THE TEAM SEEKS TO BECOME THE FIRST IN THE AHL’S 84YEAR HISTORY TO WIN FOUR IN A ROW.

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LEGENDARY LEFT WING STEVE MALTAIS SCORED A FRANCHISERECORD 451 REGULAR-SEASON GOALS DURING HIS 11-YEAR CAREER.

(OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE)

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)

TIM BRESLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97) CHRIS MARINUCCI . . . . . . . . . . . . (1998-99) WENDELL YOUNG . . . . . . . . . . . . (2000-01)

THOMAS EBRIGHT AWARD (CAREER CONTRIBUTIONS TO AHL)

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WHEN 20-YEAR-OLD CENTER CODY GLASS MADE HIS PROFESSIONAL DEBUT ON APRIL 5, HE BECAME THE 50TH NHL FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK TO PLAY FOR THE WOLVES.

WENDELL YOUNG (2017-18)

KURTIS FOSTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2003-04) SCOOTER VAUGHAN . . . . . . . . . . . (2017-18)

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WHAT'S WHAT'S THE THE DIFF? DIFF? Find the 10 differences in the two photos below.

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Bow-Wow WHAT'S THE DIFF? Wordsearch Search for the names of dog breeds below by looking in the grid forward, backward, up, down, and diagonally!

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