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OPERATIONS Courtney Mahoney Dan Harris Camille Colletti Holly Simms Joe Muting

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

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COMMUNICATIONS Lindsey Willhite Jasmine Grotto Whitneigh Kinne

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PARTNERSHIPS & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Jon Sata Greg Sprott Timothy Weaver Doug Ferguson Kayle Kozar Amy Bernstein

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WOLVES HISTORY

THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS The Chicago Wolves are the proud owners of four league championships: The International Hockey League’s Turner Cup in 1998 and 2000 and the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup in 2002 and 2008. It takes a team full of strong performers – superb playmakers, stalwart goaltenders and stay-at-home defensemen — in order to hoist a Cup and raise a banner to the rafters. But every championship team has a player who can’t be equaled by the opponent. That man earns an extra measure of immortality by earning the award that goes to the Most Valuable Player in the postseason. Here’s how the Wolves won their four titles and the four men who earned the MVP honors once the job was done.

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CHICAGO 4, DETROIT 3 In just their fourth year of existence, the Wolves earned their first trip to a Final and found themselves locked in a hard-fought battle with the defending champion Detroit Vipers. After the teams split the first six games, tensions were so high for Game 7 at Allstate Arena that the teams engaged in a brawl at the end of warmups. Once play began, the sellout crowd of 16,701 was treated to a taut thriller that was scoreless through two periods. Then Chris Marinucci and Alexander Semak delivered goals 24 seconds apart early in the third and the Wolves claimed their first title with a 3-0 victory.

MVP: ALEXANDER SEMAK When the Ufa, Russia, native joined the Wolves prior to the 1997-98 season, the 31-year-old center was coming off six seasons in the National Hockey League. Semak shared fourth on the Wolves with 61 points during 1997-98, but he cranked up his production during the Turner Cup Playoffs and led the Wolves with 27 points (10 goals, 17 assists) in 22 games. WHERE HE IS NOW: Semak is the general manager for Salavat Yuleav, the KHL club for which he grew up playing. He also serves as a Deputy for the Bashkortostan State Assembly in his hometown of Ufa.

2000

CHICAGO 4, GRAND RAPIDS 2 After posting the IHL’s best regular-season record and blasting through the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Wolves met the Eastern Division champion Grand Rapids Griffins in the Final. The Wolves missed a chance to close out the series in Game 5 at home, but Chicago rallied to claim the Turner Cup with a 3-1 Game 6 triumph at Grand Rapids. Center Derek Plante, who rejoined the team just three weeks earlier, scored a pair of goals 26 seconds apart in the second period to kickstart the Wolves’ celebration.

MVP: ANDREI TREFILOV Similar to Alexander Semak, goaltender Andrei Trefilov made his mark in Russia before coming to North America to test his skills. Trefilov arrived after winning an Olympic gold medal playing for the Unified Team in 1992. He logged time with the Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres and Chicago Blackhawks – posting a 12-25-4 record with a 3.45 goalsagainst average – before joining the Wolves for the 19992000 season. The 30-year-old Trefilov and Wendell Young split the 16 Turner Cup Playoff games right down the middle, but Trefilov posted an absurd 7-1 record, 1.35 GAA, and .950 save percentage to earn the Poile Trophy. WHERE HE IS NOW: Works as a sports agent.

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WOLVES HISTORY

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CHICAGO 4, BRIDGEPORT 1 The Wolves’ first season in the American Hockey League was a struggle. After finishing the regular season just 6 games above the .500 mark, the team had to win a best-of-three qualifying series just to reach the quarterfinals. But as the playoffs progressed, the Wolves gained steam and captured 12 of their last 14 games to win the Calder Cup. The capper was a Game 5 thriller at Allstate Arena that needed two overtimes to decide. Center Yuri Butsayev scored 2:05 into the second OT to earn a 4-3 win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

MVP: PASI NURMINEN After playing for several years in his native Finland, including one season where he was named the top goalie in the Finnish Elite League, Pasi Nurminen was selected in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers. Given that he already was 25, Nurminen came straight to America and split his regular season between the Wolves and the Thrashers. Nurminen had the highest goals-against average among the three Wolves goalies during the regular season, but he transformed into a stopper during the Calder Cup Playoffs. Nurminen appeared in 21 of the team’s 25 postseason games and produced a 15-5 record with 2 shutouts and a 1.94 GAA. He was in net when the Wolves captured the Calder Cup on June 3, 2002, and subsequently received the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as Playoff MVP. WHERE HE IS NOW: Nurminen served as Atlanta’s primary goaltender from 2002-04 before returning to Europe. He became the Finnish National Team’s goaltender coach for a time and now works as an assistant coach for the Pelicans in the Finnish Elite League.

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CHICAGO 4, WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON 2 This Wolves squad was one for the ages. John Anderson’s team won 13 of its first 14 games and rolled to 111 points during the regular season. Chicago faced the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Penguins in the Calder Cup Final and took the first three games by a combined 15-7 score. After the Penguins rallied to win twice at home, the Wolves returned to Allstate Arena and captured the Game 6 clincher 5-2. Center Jason Krog assisted Nathan Oystrick on Game 6’s first goal, then scored the Wolves’ next three goals to thrill the Allstate Arena crowd.

MVP: JASON KROG During the magical 2007-08 season, Jason Krog teamed up on a line with Darren Haydar and Brett Sterling and led the American Hockey League in goals (39), assists (73) and points (112) on his way to the regular-season MVP award. Not that anyone considered it a fluke, but Krog repeated his feat during the Calder Cup Playoffs. The 32-year-old center piled up 12 goals (tied with Haydar), 26 assists and 38 points in 24 games to pace the Wolves to a fourth championship in 11 seasons. He became the first player to win the Les Cunningham Award (for the regular-season MVP) and the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy (for playoff MVP). WHERE HE IS NOW: After his fourth and final season with the Wolves in 2010-11, Krog has spent the last five years playing in Europe. The 40-year-old helped France’s Rouen Dragons win the 2016 IIHF Continental Cup, then signed a contract to play in Norway for Lorenskog.

WOLVES OWNERSHIP

DON LEVIN CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD / GOVERNOR Donald R. Levin (luh-VIN) founded DRL Enterprises, Inc., in 1969. The Glenview-based company has holdings in many industries including tobacco processing, aircraft and medical equipment leasing, licensed sports product manufacturing and distribution, and motion picture production and distribution. Levin’s film company has made nearly 20 motion pictures distributed in the U.S. and overseas. His films have featured such stars as Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Sharon Stone, Rodney Dangerfield, and Chuck Norris. Levin founded the Chicago Wolves with Buddy Meyers and Grant Mulvey in January 1994 and has served as the team’s chairman of the board throughout. Levin donates his time and serves on the board of directors for several charitable organizations. Levin devotes a good portion of his support to Chicago’s Department of Animal Care and Control (CACC). In cooperation with CACC, the Wolves host Adopt-a-Dog Night one Saturday night each month during the season and encourage fans to provide the dogs a forever home. The Adopt-A-Dog program found homes for 1,281 dogs in its first 16 seasons. In 2003, Levin purchased and donated the Animobile — a mobile adoption unit and a modern clinic staffed by CACC veterinarians and adoption specialists. In 2014, he pledged a $2 million donation to CACC to spur an $8.2 million renovation. The Chicago native was recognized at the Boy Scouts of America’s Northwest Suburban Council’s Distinguished Citizens Banquet as its 2005 Honoree. Under Levin’s direction, the Wolves organization has held a scout night for the Northwest Suburban Council at a home game for the last 18 seasons. Levin was inducted into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame on Jan. 27, 2013. He was honored as the International Hockey League’s Executive of the Year for the 1999-2000 season, which concluded with the franchise’s second of four championships. Before beginning his business career, Levin served in the United States Marine Corps, from which he was honorably discharged. Levin and his wife, Kathleen Ann, have a son, Robert, and live in the northern suburbs.

BUDDY MEYERS VICE CHAIRMAN Buddy Meyers, a principal owner of the Wolves who founded the franchise with Don Levin and Grant Mulvey in January 1994, has been involved in the world of hockey for 45 years. He is a former certified agent of the National Hockey League Players’ Association and is past attorney for the Soviet Red Army Hockey Team (CSKA). He is a practicing attorney and the principal in the law firm of William Buddy Meyers, Ltd. His concentration is in the areas of worker’s compensation and personal injury litigation. Additionally, he is a member of the Illinois Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and Illinois Workers Compensation Lawyers Association; a former director of the Better Boys Foundation and River North Association; and a recipient of the Shomrim Society of Illinois’ Man of the Year Award in 2006. He also supports numerous charitable and environmental organizations. Meyers, who was inducted into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame on Jan. 26, 2014, is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a juris doctor degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago Kent. He and Jill live in the River North area of Chicago and have five children between them: Justin, Lindsey, Zak, Brad and Leslie. They also have four grandchildren: Emmie, Macartny, Sienna and Elle.

WENDELL YOUNG GENERAL MANAGER During Wendell Young’s first seven seasons as the Chicago Wolves general manager, the team has compiled a .582 winning percentage and captured three division titles: the 2010 West, 2012 Midwest and 2014 Midwest. Young has been a member of the Wolves organization in virtually every capacity — including player, coach, and executive — since the team’s inaugural campaign in 1994. He served as assistant coach and executive director of team relations for six seasons before transitioning into the general manager role in August 2009. The 53-year-old stands as the Wolves’ all-time leader among goaltenders in games (322), wins (169), saves (8,467), minutes (17,912), and shutouts (16), and was a member of Chicago’s 1998 and 2000 Turner Cup championship squads. His jersey number “1” was retired on Dec. 1, 2001 — becoming the first Wolves player to receive the honor. The Halifax, Nova Scotia, native, who was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2007, is the only man in hockey history to have won all four North American championships: the Stanley Cup, Turner Cup, Calder Cup, and Memorial Cup. He captured the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992 as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 1988 Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears, the 1982 Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers, and the 1998 and 2000 Turner Cups with the Wolves. He also was behind the bench as a coach for the Wolves 2008 Calder Cup victory.

BILL BENTLEY ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER Bill Bentley is in his seventh season as Wolves assistant general manager and stands as one of a handful of people who has been with the organization since the team’s inception in 1994. Bentley has been instrumental in the hockey operations department for more than 15 years, which includes all four seasons that ended with a championship. The Chicago native joined the organization as a statistician in 1994 and was promoted to team services manager a year later. The 47-year-old spent 12 seasons as the director of hockey administration before assuming the assistant general manager role in August 2009. A graduate of Quincy College, Bentley served as the Director of Media Relations for the Chicago Cheetahs of the now-defunct Roller Hockey International during the 1993-94 season.

GENE UBRIACO DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY OPERATIONS Gene Ubriaco, who has been with the Wolves since the franchise’s inception in 1994, returns for his 19th season as the team’s director of hockey operations and seventh as senior advisor. Ubriaco served as the Wolves’ first head coach and guided the expansion team to a 3433-14 record and a berth in the Turner Cup playoffs. The 78-year-old Ubriaco began his coaching career at Lake Superior State University in 1972-73. He became the head coach of the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988. Under his tutelage, the Penguins posted a 50-47-9 record, shattered several team records, and advanced to the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a seven-year absence. The Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, native posted 39 goals and 35 assists in 177 NHL regular-season games while playing with the Penguins (1967-68), the Oakland Seals (1968-69) and the Chicago Blackhawks (1969-70). He dedicates himself to numerous charitable causes, including the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association.

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THE FAMILY THAT PLAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER DEFENSEMAN MORGAN ELLIS’ HOCKEY CAREER ROOTED IN SOLID UPBRINGING BY JASMINE GROTTO | PHOTO COURTESY MORGAN ELLIS

For Chicago Wolves defenseman Morgan Ellis’ family, hockey was a way of life as it is for most Canadian families.

other issues, it was already hard enough getting six kids where they needed to go between all the sports they played.

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Living in East Bideford, located on the eastern isle province of Prince Edward Island nestled just off the Canadian mainland between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the Ellises grew up skating.

However, the invite was not extended without a helping hand. The Ellises became part of a tight-knit group of players and parents that ascended the minor-hockey ranks together and watched out for one another.

Already a member of an NHL organization – property of the Montreal Canadiens as their fourth-round pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft – Ellis helped Shawinigan capture the Memorial Cup and earned the QMJHL’s Kevin Lowe Trophy, awarded to the league’s most outstanding defensive defenseman.

Ponds and outdoor rinks were abundant, so Ellis’ mother, June, made sure all six of her children took advantage of that luxury. “She taught us all how to skate,” Ellis said. “We always had family skate after church each Sunday at 1 o’clock. We would go home, get a quick bite, get our skates and my mother would take all of us to the rink.” All six Ellises were involved in sports year-round: baseball, softball, hockey, track and field and even badminton. There wasn’t a sport one of the Ellises didn’t play. However, in East Bideford, hockey was by far the most popular. “Everyone played minor hockey growing up,” Ellis said. “It was kind of weird if you didn’t. That’s just how it was.” It took another hockey mom, though, to recognize Ellis’ “OK” talent and invite him to join a competitive team in the novice age group when her son’s team was short players. At first, Ellis’ parents hesitated. Among

“Your buddy’s parents are willing to take you to the games and look out for you because they’re good people and want to see you succeed,” Ellis stated. “You can ask any hockey player; there are always parents like that doing good things for people.” With the support and help both of his immediate and hockey families, Ellis excelled and climbed the hockey ladder. Eventually, though he hadn’t thought much about his chances, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League became his destiny. He finally became invested when he was ranked on the league’s top prospect list and, in June 2008, the then 16-year-old was selected by Cape Breton Screaming Eagles in the third round, 49th overall, of the QMJHL Entry Draft. Ellis took what is often the most difficult step and left home to play junior hockey. In the fourth year of his QMJHL career, Ellis – the Screaming Eagles captain – was traded to the Shawinigan

Fast-forward five years: Ellis is in his fifth year of professional hockey and a staple on the Wolves’ blue line. Though most of his career has been in the American Hockey League, the 24-yearold made his NHL debut during the 2015-16 season with Montreal and has three games to his credit. And Ellis has not forgotten his humble beginnings. While the professional hockey schedule is rigorous, Ellis always ensures he returns home to East Bideford for a few weeks each summer to unwind with family and friends. Ellis father, Glen, often reminds him to be thankful for the opportunities he’s been given. “I’m doing something I enjoy,” Ellis said. “And I’m going to try to play hockey for as long as I can and see where life takes me after that.”

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#3 JARED NIGHTINGALE

#4 MORGAN ELLIS

#5 REID MCNEILL

#6 VINCE DUNN

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

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

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

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

#8 ALEX FRIESEN

#9 ANDREW AGOZZINO

#10 CONNER BLEACKLEY

#12 WADE MEGAN

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

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

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

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

#13 LANDON FERRARO

#14 PETTERI LINDBOHM

#15 MACKENZIE

#17 SAMUEL BLAIS

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

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

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

#18 KENNY AGOSTINO

#20 JAMES WISNIEWSKI

#21 SCOOTER VAUGHAN

#22 IVAN BARBASHEV

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

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

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

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

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

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#23 MAGNUS PAAJARVI

#24 JORDAN SCHMALTZ

#25 CHRIS BUTLER

#26 BRYCE GERVAIS

LW / H: 6-2 W: 205 April 12, 1991 Norrkoping, Sweden

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

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

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

#27 JORDAN CARON

#29 BRETT STERLING

#30 VILLE HUSSO

#31 PHEONIX COPLEY

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

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

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

G / H: 6-3 W: 201 January 18, 1992 North Pole, Alaska

#32 EMERSON CLARK

#35 JORDAN BINNINGTON

#36 JUSTIN SELMAN

LW / H: 5-10 W: 180 December 17, 1992 Whitby, Ontario

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

F / H: 60 W: 198 October 2, 1993 Upper Saddle River, NJ

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When the Moscow native was 15 years old, he was promoted to the Moscow Hockey League – Russia’s finest junior league where many of the players he faced were 19 and 20. When Barbashev was 16, he made the jump to North America. He joined the Moncton Wildcats in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League – and he did it without knowing a speck of English. When Barbashev was 18, he and Ksenia Bezgodova were wed in Moscow during a civil ceremony witnessed only by their parents. While their marriage occurred at an incredibly young age by American standards, the Chicago Wolves center – now all of 21 years and 2 months old – suggests it’s standard in his country. “It looks like it’s really young,” Barbashev said. “But I have six or seven buddies in Russia who are my age and all married and a few them are having babies already.” Some of those buddies deserve a round of thanks from Barbashev, who might not otherwise have met Ksenia in their hometown of 12 million people. They were hanging out with mutual friends at a hockey tournament when their eyes met. Barbashev tells people it was love at first sight. Ksenia confirms it was the same for her, though she admits there weren’t many verbs at first sight. “It was weird in the beginning,” Ksenia said. “He was very shy. He didn’t talk very much. We would meet for one hour. Then two hours. Then four hours. Then we would Skype.” Then came the world. Ivan’s pursuit of hockey greatness has taken them from Moscow to New Brunswick in eastern Canada to St. Louis to Chicago…and oddly she has been better prepared for it than Ivan.

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Ivan Barbashev always has been absurdly mature for his age.

Ksenia studied English for 12 hours each week during her high school and university days. Ivan, on the other hand, did not have any English in his arsenal when he moved to Canada in 2012 – but that was not going to deter him. As you’ll discover with Barbashev – who has produced 19 points and 18 assists in 45 games for the Wolves this season – he’s someone who knows what he wants and does whatever’s necessary to overcome hurdles in his way. For example, he decided at the age of 14 that he wanted the National Hockey League to be his hockey destiny. He learned from the lessons endured by his older brother, Sergei, who’s in his fourth season playing for Admiral Vladivostok in the Kontinental Hockey League. When Sergei showed an interest in playing in North America, his binding KHL contract kept him in Russia. Ivan and his parents were determined their second son wouldn’t suffer the same fate. “What happened when I was 16, there was a KHL draft and I got drafted by Dynamo Moscow,” Barbashev said. “When you get drafted, you have to go to the camp right away. I didn’t go anywhere. I was just waiting because the Canadian Hockey League (import) draft was maybe a week or two weeks later. Dynamo Moscow was calling me every day – maybe three times a day. I didn’t pick up the phone.” When the Moncton Wildcats made Barbashev the first overall pick in the 2012 CHL Import Draft, he quickly became a Russian export.

“If I want to play [in north america], I’m going to go there”

“When I got drafted, I told (Dynamo Moscow) I’m moving to Canada and I’m sorry for that,” Barbashev said. “The people don’t really like it when you’re leaving Russia to go play in North America but, I mean, it’s my decision. It’s my life. If I want to play there, I’m going to go there, you know?” Among the million life changes that occurred when Barbashev moved to Moncton, located in the province of New Brunswick east of Maine? He underwent a name change. Well, not a name change exactly, but a pronunciation change. In Russia, his name is pronounced “E-von BARR-(with rolled r’s)-ba-shof.” In Moncton, everybody greeted him as “EYEvin.” So “EYE-vin” he has remained and he’s good with that, though it’s not like he could have told anybody otherwise. “My first two months were really hard,” Barbashev said. “I could not say anything. If a guy was asking me something, I just wouldn’t respond. I got lucky because Dmitrij Jaskin was drafted by Moncton the same year. His English was a little bit better and he helped me a lot. “My third month, me and Jaskin went to a school there at 7 a.m. every day for English class. It helped us a lot. That was for two months. After that, we got really tired of waking up at 7 in the morning and we just kind of stopped going.”

power out while Ivan was on the road. Ksenia had to move to a hotel briefly. She returned to their place to find the door blown open and the whole kitchen covered in snow – with a couple inches stuck in the microwave, the fridge, the stove. Their trip to Miami over the 2016 AHL All-Star Break was much more relaxing and warm. They planned to spend the 2017 AHL All-Star Break together in Cleveland, but Ivan was called to the NHL. Basically, their lives change on a moment’s notice in America. That doesn’t stop them from thinking about their homeland and noticing how Russia is portrayed in the American headlines – especially during the recent political election. Ksenia has more time to consider these things as her current visa prohibits her from working. “I like it here a lot, but sometimes I hear that Russia’s scary,” she said. “No one in Russia hates Americans. No one hates Canadians. No one hates any foreign people. They just don’t speak English to tell them so. The people are really nice.” Ivan and Ksenia live virtually year-round in America. They manage to fit in a visit to Moscow each summer, which is enough to remind them what’s great about Russia’s capital.

Barbashev said that with a smile – the kind that comes with command with a language. He accelerated his knowledge when his billet family in Moncton introduced him to Netflix and encouraged him to watch all types of movies.

Aside from the remarkable sites that have stood the test of time — such as Red Square and The Kremlin — the Barbashev’s enjoy Gorkiy Central Park of culture and leisure and Arbat Street. Arbat Street is located in the heart of Moscow and features historic architecture mixed with terrific restaurants.

When Ivan wasn’t busy piling up points for Moncton or adding words to his vocabulary, he was maintaining a long-distance relationship with Ksenia. During his middle season in Canada, she received a visa and joined him for a few months.

When asked what he tells his teammates about Russia, Barbashev offered this answer: “I can see in America, they’re always talking about Russia: “Oh, they did that, that, that.’ But it’s different than that.

But when Ksenia applied for another visa prior to the 2014-15 season, she was denied. They solved the problem pragmatically and romantically – by getting married on July 23, 2014.

“Moscow is a beautiful city. It’s my hometown. It’s my wife’s hometown. It’s my parents’ hometown. I lived there for 16 years. Moscow is huge. Traffic is awful. Sometimes a 45-minute drive can take you three hours. It’s really bad. Otherwise, Moscow is a beautiful city. I really want to go back there and enjoy it. “V

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CRAIG BERUBE HEAD COACH Craig Berube was named Chicago Wolves head coach on June 29, 2016. This marks Berube’s 12th season as a coach, which includes two seasons as the head coach for the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. The 50-year-old Calahoo, Alberta, native spent 11 years as a coach in the Philadelphia organization prior to joining the Wolves. He signed during the 2003-04 season to serve as a player/assistant coach for the AHL’s Philadelphia Phantoms. In 2006, he was promoted to Phantoms head coach, but worked only six games (3-2-1-0) before accepting a job as Flyers assistant. After completing the 2006-07 season with the Flyers, Berube returned to the Phantoms and guided the team to a 46-27-4-3 record (.619) and a berth in the East Division Final. Berube rejoined the Flyers coaching staff for the 2008-09 season and served as an assistant until being elevated to the head-coaching spot 3 games into the 2013-14 season. He directed the Flyers to third place in the Metropolitan Division and a Stanley Cup Playoffs bid. He also handled the 2014-15 season and posted a 75-58-28 record (.553) during his Flyers tenure. Prior to his coaching career, Berube played in the NHL from 1987-2003. During his 17-year career, which featured stops with Philadelphia, Toronto, Calgary, Washington and the New York Islanders, Berube notched 61 goals, 98 assists and 3,149 penalty minutes during 1,054 regular-season games. He stands seventh on the NHL’s all-time list for penalty minutes.

DARRYL SYDOR ASSISTANT COACH Two-time Stanley Cup champion Darryl Sydor joined the Chicago Wolves as an assistant coach on July 25, 2016. Sybor, 44, spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach for the Minnesota Wild (NHL). The Wild posted a regular-season record of 188-143-45 (.560) during his tenure behind the bench and earned Stanley Cup Playoff berths each of the last four years. He entered the coaching profession with the Houston Aeros (AHL) in 2010-11. Prior to becoming a coach, the Edmonton, Alberta, native enjoyed a 19-year NHL career that included All-Star Game appearances in 1998 and 1999. Selected by the Los Angeles Kings with the seventh overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, the 6-foot-1, 211-pound defenseman jumped from the Kamloops Blazers (WHL) to the Kings at the age of 19. Sydor stacked up 98 goals and 409 assists in 1,291 regular-season games for the Kings, Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues.

DANIEL TKACZUK ASSISTANT COACH Daniel Tkaczuk joined the Chicago Wolves as an assistant coach on July 25, 2016. Tkaczuk, 37, spent the last four seasons coaching in the Ontario Hockey League. He served as an assistant coach for Kitchener last season and helped the Rangers reach the second round of the OHL playoffs. He spent 2012-15 with the Owen Sound Attack. The Toronto native was the No. 6 overall selection by the Calgary Flames in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Tkaczuk posted 4 goals and 7 assists in 19 NHL games with the Flames in 2000-01. He appeared in 286 regular-season AHL games – suiting up for the Saint John Flames, Worcester IceCats, Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Syracuse Crunch, Rochester Americans and Hartford Wolf Pack -- and notched 59 goals and 109 assists. In 2001, he delivered 10 goals and 9 assists to help Saint John capture the Calder Cup.

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WESTWARD HO! The American Hockey League continues to expand its reach in the western half of the country as the Springfield Falcons have moved to Arizona and become the Tucson Roadrunners. In addition, the Portland Pirates moved to Massachusetts to become the Springfield Thunderbirds. The AHL will maintain its twoconference, four-division alignment for the second year in a row, but Tucson’s arrival has led to a change in conference membership. Instead of housing 15 teams apiece, the Western Conference boasts 16 teams split between the Central and Pacific while the Eastern Conference features 14 teams split between the Atlantic and North. In both conferences, the top four teams in each division (ranked by points percentage) will qualify for the 2017 Calder Cup Playoffs.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

CENTRAL DIVISION

ATLANTIC DIVISION

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

Bridgeport Sound Tigers . . . . . . . New York Islanders Hartford Wolf Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York Rangers Hershey Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington Capitals Lehigh Valley Phantoms . . . . . . . . Philadelphia Flyers Providence Bruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boston Bruins Springfield Thunderbirds . . . . . . . . . . Florida Panthers Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins . . . . . . . Pittsburgh Penguins

PACIFIC DIVISION

NORTH DIVISION

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

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

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EMPTY NET GOAL

An assist is credited to a player who helps set up a goal. Assists are awarded to the last two men to handle the puck immediately preceding the goal.

Area of the net the goalie defends.

Shooting the puck into the net.

A clear scoring opportunity where no defensive player is between the puck carrier and the goaltender.

Teeth.

A goal scored against an opponent that has pulled the goalie for an extra attacker in an attempt to tie the game.

FACE-OFF

HAT TRICK

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OFFSIDE

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The action of an official dropping the puck between the sticks of two opposing players to start play.

When a player scores three goals (or more) in a game.

What happens when a team scores. The goal judge at the end of the ice flips on the red light.

A team is offside when a player crosses the offensive zone blue line before the puck does.

When a player tries to beat the goaltender with a shot into the upper part of the net. Also known as “top cheese,” “cookie jar” and “water bottle.”

Losing control of the puck to the opposing team.

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Penalty minutes incurred by forward Zach O’Brien in 62 games, which led the AHL and set a franchise record for fewest penalty minutes.

Pat Cannone recorded two hat tricks in a 10-day stretch (Jan. 17 at Grand Rapids and Jan. 26 at Iowa). That’s the second-shortest time span between a pair of hat tricks in franchise annals. Steve Maltais delivered hat tricks on back-to-back nights in October 1995.

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Pat Cannone became the third Wolves player to win the Most Valuable Player award at an All-Star Game. Cannone scored 3 goals and handed out 1 assist to lead the Central Division to the AHL All-Star Classic title.

When the Wolves crushed Manitoba 8-2 on Dec. 2 at Allstate Arena, it marked the 500th home win in franchise history.

(Joining Steve Larouche in 2001 and Brett Sterling in 2007)

SINGLE-SEASON FRANCHISE RECORDS GOALS V 60 STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97)

PENALTY MINUTES V 336 KEVIN MACDONALD . . . . . . . . . . . (1994-95)

ASSISTS V 91 ROB BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1995-96)

PLUS/MINUS V +47 ARTURS KULDA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2009-10)

GAME-WINNING GOALS V 10 CHRIS MARINUCCI . . . . . . . . . . . . (1998-99) BRETT STERLING . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) MARK MANCARI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2011-12) SHANE HARPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2014-15)

WINS V 38 KARI LEHTONEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2004-05) SHUTOUTS V 7 JAKE ALLEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2013-14)

ALL-TIME FRANCHISE RECORDS GOALS LEADERS 1. STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 2. BRETT STERLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 3. ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 4. DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 5. CHRIS MARINUCCI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 6. JASON KROG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 7. STEVE LAROUCHE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8. J.P. VIGIER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 DEREK MACKENZIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 10. SCOTT PEARSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

GOALS-AGAINST AVERAGE LEADERS (MINIMUM 25 APPEARANCES)

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RICHARD SHULMISTRA. . . . . . . . . . 1.89 JAKE ALLEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.03 KARI LEHTONEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 ANDREI TREFILOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36 EDDIE LACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.46 JORDAN BINNINGTON. . . . . . . . . . 2.59 DREW MacINTYRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66 ROBERT GHERSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 FRED BRATHWAITE . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68 ONDREJ PAVELEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.69

LES CUNNINGHAM AWARD (AHL Regular-Season MVP) DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) WILLIE MARSHALL AWARD (AHL’S Leading Goal-Scorer) BRETT STERLING . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) LEO LAMOUREUX MEMORIAL TROPHY (IHL Regular-Season Scoring Champion) ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1995-96) ROB BROWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97) STEVE MALTAIS. . . . . . . . . . . . (1999-2000) STEVE LAROUCHE . . . (2000-01) (Shared) JOHN B. SOLLENBERGER TROPHY (AHL’S Leading Regular-Season Scorer) STEVE MALTAIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2002-03) DARREN HAYDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . (2006-07) JASON KROG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2007-08) IHL MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD (Outstanding Community Service) TIM BRESLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1996-97) CHRIS MARINUCCI . . . . . . . . . . . . (1998-99) WENDELL YOUNG . . . . . . . . . . . . (2000-01) YANICK DUPRE MEMORIAL AWARD (AHL Man of the Year) KURTIS FOSTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . (2003-04)

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