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Chicago Wolves
2018–19 AHL season
City	Rosemont, Illinois
League	American Hockey League
Conference	Western
Division	Central
Founded	1994 (In the IHL)
Home arena	Allstate Arena
Colors	Burgundy, gold, black, white
Owner(s)	Don Levin, Buddy Meyers
General manager	Wendell Young
Head coach	Rocky Thompson
Media	CW50 The U Too
Affiliates	Vegas Golden Knights (NHL) Fort Wayne Komets (ECHL)
Franchise history
1994–present	Chicago Wolves
Championships
Regular season titles	1 IHL 1999–2000
Division Championships	4 IHL 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01 7 AHL 2004–05, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18
Conference Championships	3 IHL 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2000–01 3 AHL 2001–02, 2004–05, 2007–08
Turner Cups	2 1997–98, 1999–2000
Calder Cups	2 2001–02, 2007–08

The Chicago Wolves are a professional ice hockey team playing in the Central Division of the Western Conference of the American Hockey League. The Wolves play home games at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois and are owned by Chicago business owners Don Levin and Buddy Meyers. They are the minor league affiliate of the Vegas Golden Knights.

Originally a member of the International Hockey League, the Wolves joined the AHL after the IHL folded in 2001.

History

2007-08 Wolves with the Calder Cup

The Wolves won the Turner Cup twice (1998, 2000) in the IHL and the Calder Cup twice (2002, 2008). The Wolves qualified for all but five postseasons (2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13, and 2015–16 seasons), appearing in six league championship finals (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008) in their 22-year history.

The team's great star was forward Steve Maltais, who until his retirement after the 2004–05 season, had played every season of the franchise and holds most of its scoring records. Other notable players include goaltender Wendell Young, ex-Pittsburgh star Rob Brown and long time Chicago Blackhawks stars Troy Murray, Chris Chelios and Al Secord. The Wolves had their best season start in their 14-year history, during the 2007–08 season, winning 13 of the first 14 games, with an overtime loss. The Wolves finished the season with 111 points, and first in the Western Conference.

The Wolves were the AHL affiliate of the Atlanta Thrashers from 2001 to 2011. The Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg in June 2011 and added the St. John's IceCaps (formerly the Manitoba Moose) as their new AHL affiliate, leaving the Wolves and the NHL's Vancouver Canucks to find new affiliates. On June 27, 2011, the Wolves and Canucks agreed to a two–year affiliation agreement.^[1]

On April 23, 2013, the Wolves and St. Louis Blues reached a three-year affiliation agreement. The deal was struck after the Canucks and Wolves decided not to renew their existing affiliation agreement and purchased the Peoria Rivermen franchise from the Blues creating the Utica Comets.^[2] In November 2016, it was first reported the Blues would not renew their affiliation with the Wolves and were planning to move their affiliation to Kansas City for 2017.^[3] However, this was unconfirmed and then denied by the announced potential owner in Kansas City, Lamar Hunt Jr., in a press release from his ECHL team in the area, the Missouri Mavericks,^[4] and further denied by AHL commissioner, David Andrews, after the January 2017 Board of Governors meeting.^[5]

After the 2016–17 season, the Wolves became the first affiliate of the NHL's expansion team, the Vegas Golden Knights.^[6] The Blues did not re-sign with the Wolves to be their primary NHL affiliate for the 2017–18 season. However, Blues' general manager Doug Armstrong confirmed they would still send prospects to the Wolves for that season.^[7]

During the first season of their affiliation with Vegas, the Wolves set a pair of franchise records in earning points in 14 straight games from December 9 to January 6 and 13 consecutive home wins from December 6 to February 15.^{[citation needed]}

Television

The Wolves are the only AHL team with a full television package. All 76 regular-season games, plus playoffs, are broadcast on WPWR-TV (CW50), and WCIU-DT2 (26.2, U Too). As the Chicago Blackhawks' late owner Bill Wirtz had refused to allow Blackhawks home games to be televised locally, the Wolves were viewed and embraced as an alternative; the Wolves took advantage of this, going so far as to promote themselves with the slogan "We Play Hockey The Old-Fashioned Way: We Actually Win". After Judd Sirott served as the team's play-by-play announcer for its first 12 seasons, starting in the 2006–07 season broadcast announcers were long-time Blackhawks commentators Pat Foley and Bill Gardner; Foley ultimately returned to the Blackhawks for the 2008–09 season.^[8] Since 2008, Jason Shaver has handled the play-by-play duties for the Wolves, along with Gardner.

Season-by-season results

This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by the Wolves. For the full season-by-season history, see List of Chicago Wolves seasons

Players

Current roster

Updated October 15, 2018.^[9][10]

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace	Contract
7001260000000000000♠26		Erik Brännström	D	L	19	2018	Eksjö, Sweden	Golden Knights
7000700000000000000♠7		Daniel Carr	LW	L	26	2018	Sherwood Park, Alberta	Golden Knights
7001150000000000000♠15		Dylan Coghlan	D	L	20	2018	Nanaimo, British Columbia	Golden Knights
7001350000000000000♠35		Oscar Dansk	G	L	24	2017	Stockholm, Sweden	Golden Knights
7001390000000000000♠39		Reid Duke	C	R	22	2017	Calgary, Alberta	Golden Knights
7001220000000000000♠22		Alex Gallant	LW	L	25	2018	Summerside, Prince Edward Island	Golden Knights
7000200000000000000♠2		Nicolas Hague	D	L	19	2018	Kitchener, Ontario	Golden Knights
7001200000000000000♠20		Keegan Kolesar	RW	R	21	2017	Brandon, Manitoba	Golden Knights
7001330000000000000♠33		Maxime Lagacé	G	L	25	2017	Longueuil, Quebec	Golden Knights
7001370000000000000♠37		Zac Leslie	D	L	24	2018	Ottawa, Ontario	Golden Knights
7001130000000000000♠13		Kevin Lough	D	L	26	2017	Kanata, Ontario	Wolves
7001170000000000000♠17		Brooks Macek	RW	R	26	2018	Winnipeg, Manitoba	Golden Knights
7001230000000000000♠23		Stefan Matteau	LW	L	24	2017	Chicago, Illinois	Golden Knights
7001100000000000000♠10		Curtis McKenzie (A)	LW	L	27	2018	Golden, British Columbia	Golden Knights
7000400000000000000♠4		Jimmy Oligny	D	L	25	2018	Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec	Golden Knights
7001270000000000000♠27		Brandon Pirri (A)	C	L	27	2017	Toronto, Ontario	Golden Knights
7000900000000000000♠9		Gage Quinney	LW/C	L	23	2018	Las Vegas, Nevada	Golden Knights
7000600000000000000♠6		Griffin Reinhart	D	L	24	2017	West Vancouver, British Columbia	Golden Knights
7001180000000000000♠18		T. J. Tynan (A)	C	R	26	2017	Orland Park, Illinois	Golden Knights
7001120000000000000♠12		Ryan Wagner	F	L	22	2018	Park Ridge, Illinois	Wolves
7001140000000000000♠14		Matthew Weis	C	L	23	2018	Madison, New Jersey	Wolves
7000400000000000000♠4		Zach Whitecloud	D	L	21	2018	Brandon, Manitoba	Golden Knights
7000800000000000000♠8		Tyler Wong	RW	R	22	2017	Airdrie, Alberta	Wolves

Retired numbers

Wolves retired numbers and honored personnel

• 1 Wendell Young, G, 1994–2001


• 11 Steve Maltais, LW, 1994–2005

Team captains

Honored personnel

• 
  Tim Breslin, LW, 1994–99


• 
  Dan Snyder, C, 2001–03


• 
  John Anderson, Head Coach, 1997–2008, 2013–16^[11]
  


• 
  Kevin Cheveldayoff, General Manager, 1997–2009

Team records

Single season

Some of the Wolves banners hanging in the Allstate Arena

Career

See also

• List of Chicago Wolves award winners

References

• 
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External links

• 
  The Chicago Wolves Official website


• The Internet Hockey Database - Chicago Wolves (AHL)


• The Internet Hockey Database - Chicago Wolves (IHL)


• 
  Chicago Wolves Laser Shows Over A Decade of Wolves Laser Shows


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  [1] Chicago Wolves Blog