Video game-like numbers propel Wolf to pair of AHL awards for 2022-23 campaign

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(with a record of 42-10-2), save percentage (.932), goals-against average (2.09) and shutouts (seven).

Wolf also played more minutes (3,238), faced more shots (1,653) and made more saves (1,540) than any other goaltender in the league, backstopping the Wranglers to the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as the AHL’s regular-season champions.

In addition to the Bastien Award, Wolf captured the Harry “Hap” Holmes Memorial Award, given to the goaltender(s) on the team that allows the fewest goals in the regular season.

Also named a First Team AHL All-Star for the second year in a row, Wolf has compiled a record of 7720-6 with a 2.24 GAA, a .927 save percentage and seven shutouts in 105 AHL appearances. The Gilroy was a seventh-round choice by the Calgary

Flames in the 2019 NHL Draft and made his NHL debut with the Flames on Apr. 12, stopping 23 shots in a 3-1 win over San Jose.

This marks the fourth consecutive year in which Wolf has won his league’s top goaltender award. He earned the Del Wilson Trophy playing for the Everett Silvertips in the Western Hockey League in both 2019-20 and 2020-21.

The AHL’s most valuable player award honors the late Les Cunningham, a member of the AHL Hall of Fame who was a five-time league All-Star and three-time Calder Cup champion with the Cleveland Barons.

The Aldege “Baz” Bastien Memorial Award, which was first presented in 1984, honors former Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Baz Bastien, who played four seasons in goal with the AHL’s Pittsburgh Hornets (1945-49) before suffering a career- ending eye injury.

Bastien would go on to serve as head coach and general manager of the Hornets, leading them to the 1967

Calder Cup championship. During his youth hockey career, Wolf played for the Los Angeles Jr. Kings.