Tag: Chicago Wolves

CHICAGO WOLVES (36-11-5-5 – 82 Points) vs.
TORONTO MARLIES (28-21-3-1 – 60 Points)

SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2022

	1	2	3	OT	FINAL
CHICAGO	0	1	1	–	2
TORONTO	0	3	1	–	4

GAME SUMMARY    |    GAME SHEET |    PHOTOS    |      SCRUMS

SCORING SUMMARY

Chicago: D. Colton (6) (M. Lajoie, M. Letunov), S. Noesen (34) PP (J. Leivo, J. Keane)
Goaltender: J. LaFontaine (21/25) L          

Toronto: B. McMann (14) PP (J. Anderson, J. Duszak), A. Suomela (C. Douglas), B. McMann (15) (Unassisted), N. Robertson (4) (J. Blandisi, A. Steeves)
Goaltender: K. Petruzzelli (32/34) W 

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Bobby McMann scored at 8:51 on the power play and the game-winning goal at 11:55, both in the second period. This was his first career AHL multigoal game and his second game-winning goal of the season. He matched a career-high six shots on net.
• Antti Suomela scored at 9:42 of the second period. He has points (1-1-2) in consecutive games.Suomela has 24 points (14 goals, 11 assists) in 35 games this season.
• Nick Robertson scored at 11:19 of the third period. He has nine points (4 goals, 5 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Joey Anderson recorded the primary assist on McMann’s power play goal in the second period. He has 34 points (20 goals, 14 assists) 44 games this season, matching his season-high for points.
• Joseph Duszak had the secondary assist on McMann’s power play goal in the second period. This was his 19^th power play assist. He has five points (2 goals, 3 assists) through his last five games.
• Curtis Douglas registered the lone assist on Suomela’s second period goal. He has 27 points (8 goals, 19 assists) in 49 games this season.
• Joseph Blandisi picked up the primary assist on Robertson’s third period goal. He has three points (1 goal, 2 assists) through his last three games.
• Alex Steeves recorded the secondary assist on Robertson’s third period goal. He has assists (3) in consecutive games.
• Keith Petruzzelli stopped 32 of 34 shots he faced. This was his second career AHL start. He has stopped 62 shots through his two wins with the Marlies.

OF NOTE

• Toronto went 2-for-3 on the penalty kill and 1-for-1 on the power play. Toronto is 21-9-1-0 when scoring on the power play and 13-10-2-1 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Chicago had a 34-25 edge in shots in all situations. Bobby McMann led the Marlies with six shots on goal. Toronto is 19-16-2-1 when outshot by their opponents.
• The Marlies are 6-2-0-0 against Central Division opponents and finished the season series 3-1-0-0 against the Wolves. Toronto outscored Chicago 13-8 through four games.

RECORD WHEN Not scoring first                      7-15-2-0 Tied after 1                              8-4-0-0 Leading after 2                         21-4-2-1 At home                                   14-11-2-1 March                                      4-6-0-0 Sunday                                    5-4-1-0

MARLIES LEADERS *Amongst active players Goals               20 (J. Anderson) Assists            35 (J. Duszak) Points              43 (B. Seney) PPG                 6 (J. Anderson, A. Steeves) Shots               124 (A. Steeves) +/-                    +14 (B. Seney) PIMS                89 (R. Clune)

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH GREG MOORE

On today’s win:
It feels good. The few times we’ve played these guys, our team has really stepped up for the challenge and we got back to some of the recipe we found yesterday. Stay out of the penalty box and we gave ourselves a chance to win the longer we played five-on-five.

On Keith Petruzzelli’s play:
It was great. He battled. [The] toe save he made on that rebound was a big one for us. He was positioned, he was calm and comfortable. He gave our team confidence to be calm and comfortable in front of him.

On Bobby McMann’s progression through the season:
He’s done a really good job. He works really hard. His puck play has really, really improved. His awareness of what’s around him. He has a great shot and I think he relied on that early on… He’s constructing some good sequences in between some of the plays with his line mates, so he’s really improved in that area.

KEITH PETRUZZELLI

On Alex Biega and the team’s defensive play:
It was great tonight. The boys made my job easy. Keeping stuff to the outside, blocking huge shots. Biega takes a stick to the face on the penalty kill and just keeps going, keeps working. It’s guys like that that just lead the way and it’s good to see.

UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time

March 22 vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton – 7:00 p.m.
March 23 vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton – 7:00 p.m.
March 25 at Rochester – 7:05 p.m.
March 26 vs. Bridgeport – 4:00 p.m.
March 29 at Abbotsford – 7:00 p.m. (PDT)

CHICAGO WOLVES (36-10-5-5 – 82 Points) vs.
TORONTO MARLIES (27-21-3-1 – 58 Points)

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2022

	1	2	3	OT	FINAL
CHICAGO	2	0	2	–	4
TORONTO	2	0	0	–	2

GAME SUMMARY    |    GAME SHEET |    PHOTOS    |      SCRUMS

SCORING SUMMARY

Chicago: C. Smith (19) PP (S. Noesen, A. Poturalski), R. Suzuki (6) (D. Gust, J. Sellgren), J. Leivo (14) PP (C. Smith, A. Poturalski), S. Noesen (33) EN, SH (A. Poturalski)
Goaltender: A. Lyon (20/22) W          

Toronto: S. Der-Arguchintsev (13) (A. Steeves, A. Suomela), B. Seney (16) PP (A. Steeves, J. Duszak)
Goaltender: M. Hutchinson (27/30) L

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Semyon Der-Arguchintsev opened the scoring 32 seconds into the first period. He has goals (2) in consecutive games. He has 28 points (13 goals, 15 assists) in 45 games this season.
• Brett Seney scored on the power play at 7:29 of the first period. He has points (2-2-4) in three straight games. Seney leads all Marlies in points (11-14-25) at home.
• Alex Steeves recorded the primary assists on Der-Arguchintsev and Seney’s first period goals. This is his 12^th multipoint game of the season.
• Antti Suomela registered the secondary assist on Der-Arguchintsev’s first period goal. He has 24 points (13 goals, 11 assists) in 34 games this season.
• Joseph Duszak had the secondary assist on Seney’s first period goal. He has four points (2 goals, 2 assists) through his last four games.
• Michael Hutchinson stopped 27 of 30 shots he faced.

OF NOTE

• Toronto went 4-for-6 on the penalty kill and 1-for-5 on the power play. Toronto is 20-9-1-0 when scoring on the power play and 12-10-2-1 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Chicago had a 31-22 edge in shots in all situations. Joey Anderson led the Marlies with four shots on goal. Toronto is 18-16-2-1 when outshot by their opponents.
• The Marlies are 5-2-0-0 against Central Division opponents and are 2-1-0-0 against the Wolves. Toronto has outscored Chicago 9-6 through three games.

RECORD WHEN Scoring first                            21-6-1-1 Tied after 1                              7-4-0-0 Tied after 2                              5-3-0-0 At home                                   13-11-2-1 March                                      3-6-0-0 Saturday                                  9-6-2-0

MARLIES LEADERS *Amongst active players Goals               20 (J. Anderson) Assists            34 (J. Duszak) Points              43 (B. Seney) PPG                 6 (J. Anderson, A. Steeves) Shots               123 (A. Steeves) +/-                    +15 (B. Seney) PIMS                89 (R. Clune)

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH GREG MOORE

On what needs to change for tomorrow’s game:
Stay out of the penalty box against a top power play unit. I mean for the most part we played some good hockey. I thought the first period was a good start for us going toe-to-toe with them. Second period, penalties and turnovers through the middle of the rink kind of fueled their momentum and gave them some space to make plays and go back towards our net. We got back to it in the third period, came out hard, got back to our game plan. So, it’s just those little blips, those little five, 10, 15-minute segments that we just got to stay on it and execute what we want to execute.

ALEX STEEVES (2 ASSISTS)

On today’s game:

We had a good start. They’re a really good team. Not really a good idea to put them on the power play, we gave them a lot of opportunities there. I thought it was a good hard battle. It felt like a playoff game and they came out on top. I think we just kind of stick to our recipe and play the right way I think we’ll have a really good chance to get them back tomorrow.

On Michael Hutchinson’s play:

Hutchy was a stud tonight. He gave us a chance to pull our goalie at the end there. That one save he made was one of the better saves I’ve seen all year. He’s a gamer and he really balled out for us tonight and gave us a chance to win and which is all you can really ask from your goalie.

UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time

March 20 vs. Chicago – 4:00 p.m.
March 22 vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton – 7:00 p.m.
March 23 vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton – 7:00 p.m.
March 25 at Rochester – 7:05 p.m.
March 26 vs. Bridgeport – 4:00 p.m.

TORONTO MARLIES (6-4-0-0 – 12 Points) vs.
CHICAGO WOLVES (7-3-0-0 – 14 Points)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2021

	1	2	3	OT	FINAL
TORONTO	2	2	1	–	5
CHICAGO	1	0	0	–	1

GAME SUMMARY    |    GAME SHEET |    PHOTOS    |      SCRUMS

SCORING SUMMARY

Toronto: B. McMann (2) (J. Duszak, R. Clune), K. Gabriel (1) (C. Douglas, B. McMann), S. Der-Arguchintsev (1) (J. Ho-Sang, N. Hoefenmayer), M. Michaelis (2) SH (M. Abramov, A. Biega), P. Gogolev (1) (N. Hoefenmayer)
Goaltender: E. Källgren (38/39)

Chicago: S. Miletic (1) (S. Smallman, M. Letunov)
Goaltender: B. Warm (20/25)

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Bobby McMann opened the scoring at 2:29 of the first period and later added the secondary assist on Gabriel’s goal. He has four points (2 goals, 2 assists) in four games with the Marlies this season.
• Kurtis Gabriel scored at 4:58 of the first period. This was his first goal of the season with the Marlies.
• Semyon Der-Arguchintsev scored at 4:49 of the second period. This was his first career AHL goal. Der-Arguchintsev has four points (1 goal, 3 assists) in his last five games.
• Marc Michaelis scored shorthanded at 11:16 of the second period. This was Michaelis’ first career AHL shorthanded goal. He has four points (2 goals, 2 assists) in nine games this season.
• Pavel Gogolev scored at 5:05 of the third period. This was his first goal of the season. He has three points (1 goal, 2 assists) through seven games.
• Joseph Duszak recorded the primary assist on McMann’s first period goal. He has six assists through seven games.
• Rich Clune registered the secondary assist on McMann’s first period goal. Clune has two assists through eight games this season.
• Curtis Douglas had the primary assist on Gabriel’s first period goal.
• Josh Ho-Sang recorded the primary assist on Der-Arguchintsev’s second period goal.He has points (4-2-6) in five consecutive games.
• Noel Hoefemayer picked up the secondary assist on Der-Arguchintsev’s second period goal and the lone assist on Gogolev’s third period goal.
• Mikhail Abramov registered the primary assist on Michaelis’ shorthanded goal in the second period. He has three assists (1 goal, 2 assists) in 10 games this season.
• Alex Biega had the secondary assist on Michaelis’ shorthanded goal in the second period.
• Erik Källgren stopped 38 of 39 shots he faced. He is 4-2-0 this season with a  2.50 goals against average and a 0.923 save percentage.

ON THE ROAD

• Toronto’s away record is 3-2-0-0 (6 points) this season.
• The Marlies have outscored their opponents 16-14 on the road. Josh Ho-Sang and Alex Steeves lead the Marlies in goals (3). Ho-Sang also leads in points (3-2-5).
• Erik Källgren is 3-0-0 on the road and has made 102 saves on 106 shots through three games.

OF NOTE

• This is Toronto’s first game against the Chicago Wolves since April 19, 2015.
• Toronto went 6-for-6 on the penalty kill and 0-for-2 on the power play. Toronto has recorded three shorthanded goals this season (Marc Michaelis, Brett Seney, Alex Steeves). Michaelis’ shorthanded goal was Toronto’s first on the road.
• Chicago had a 39-25 edge in shots in all situations. Pavel Gogolev led the Marlies with four shots on goal. This was the most shots Toronto has faced in a game this season.
• The Marlies are 2-1-0-0 against Central Division opponents and 1-0-0-0 against the Chicago Wolves.

RECORD WHEN Scoring first                                        6-0-0-0 Leading after 1                                    4-0-0-0 Leading after 2                                     5-0-0-0 Not scoring on the power play            2-4-0-0 Not allowing a power play goal           4-1-0-0 Outshot by opponent                          3-3-0-0 Saturday                                              3-2-0-0

MARLIES LEADERSGoals               6 (J. Ho-Sang) Assists            6 (J. Duszak) Points              8 (J. Ho-Sang) PPG                 2 (J. Ho-Sang) Shots               24 (B. Seney) +/-                    +4 (C. Dahlström, B. McMann, K. Rubīns) PIMS                36 (R. Clune)

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH GREG MOORE

On tonight’s game:
It was a weird game. First thing is we’ve got to stay out of the penalty box. That’s something we’re having to waste too much time and energy on talking with the group. In the long term, we can’t play sustained hockey and win games if we’re going to be in the box that often. The positive to that is how good our penalty kill did at eliminating opportunities. Snowden has done a heck of a job with those guys and preparing them, keeping them organized and really building a mindset of how they’re attacking and approaching that area of the hockey game. It was really good to see a couple of guys really spring offensively. The puck play hasn’t been a really simple or smooth thing for us to work through the last couple of games. At times when we did find our space and our offence, I thought our puck play was pretty good.

On Bobby McMann:

He’s getting the ice tilted. He’s a very strong skater. He plays to his strengths and that’s just simply driving his feet, getting depth into the zone. He sets up the whole team with his power and his strength of forcing the other team to come all the way back into their D-zone, stop in their spots. He sets up the O-zone for our team and establishes a presence at that end of the rink. He has a heck of a shot when he has the time and space to shoot the puck. That line today of McMann, Douglas and Gabriel had an awesome start for us. They were determined at the beginning of the game to make sure that we got things going the right direction and they put the team on their back today.

BOBBY McMANN (1 GOAL, 1 ASSIST)

On tonight’s win:
I think we’re just focusing on our starts. It’s what Moore talked about pregame. Just trying to get a good start and play in the offensive zone and then good things happen usually. We’ve had a good week of practice and we followed that up in the game.

On his line with Curtis Douglas and Kurtis Gabriel:
Our game plan is just to skate, skate as hard as we can and try to turn pucks over. We know and have trust in the other guy that he’s going to be there to support you as that F2 and collect that puck if you’re first on it. Just trusting that that other guy is going to be there and giving your all.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

November 8: Recalled defenceman Matthew Hellickson from loan to Newfoundland (ECHL).
November 8: Recalled defenceman Noel Hoefenmayer from loanto Newfoundland (ECHL).
November 7: Recalled forward Joey Anderson from loan by Toronto (NHL).
November 7: Recalled forward Kirill Semyonov from loan by Toronto (NHL).
November 6: Recalled goaltender Joseph Woll from loan by Toronto (NHL).

UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time

November 14 at Chicago – 4:00 p.m.
November 17 vs Laval – 7:00 p.m.
November 20 vs Lehigh Valley – 4:00 p.m.
November 21 vs Cleveland – 4:00 p.m.
November 26 at Cleveland – 7:00 p.m.